This large pharmaceutical company was facing the following challenges: - Solidify the network as the infrastructure across which their intellectual property is developed, quality-assured and delivered to market while enhancing global network security, speed and agility. - Better manage the process of merging acquired companies into the main corporate network. - Reduce business risk by implementing role-based access, full change tracking and the replacement of fragmented, spreadsheet-based management of IPAM data. - Increase the ROI on network-associated IT investments, such as virtualization, cloud and SDN.

With nearly 3,000 students in six colleges, 1,500 full and part-time teaching staff and a 750-bed medical center, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is the only comprehensive academic health center in South Carolina. MUSC offers educational programs in the biomedical sciences, dentistry, health professions, medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Each year, MUSC admits almost 33,000 patients to its hospitals, while its outpatient facilities serve 800,000 patients. MUSC’s network spans 30+ remote sites and its IP address space is comprised of approximately 30,000 IP addresses. The network must support the diverse needs of both the hospital and university, as well as the intensive demands of medical researchers for online collaboration.

The multinational insurer wanted to continue seamless operations and have consistent policy enforcement, security, and risk management across its entire hybrid estate. However, deploying Private Endpoints in Azure for security made it impossible to resolve DNS and ensure connectivity between data center resources and Azure DNS zones.

Their automation initiatives couldn’t scale

Managing network connections between medical devices deployed in the field and the company’s service staff proved to be a multifaceted challenge, including compliance, network conflicts, and visibility.

A multinational manufacturer had thousands of subscriptions on multiple clouds with no visibility into what was in them. They needed to manage IP addresses and namespaces, respond to queries effectively, and track usage for service health, security, and compliance purposes.