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Modernizing Data Security to Streamline Global Operations

Our client, a pharmaceutical leader, has a chemical manufacturing footprint that includes 29 edge locations across 5 continents. Each location requires specialized data security and backup to ensure operational continuity. However, an aging data backup solution with limited security capabilities and management complexities hindered the chemical manufacturer's global operations. The company partnered with BlueAlly to solve these challenges by integrating a specialized cloud data management solution that modernized data security across its global infrastructure.

Lab Scientist

A global chemical manufacturer

Our client is a global leader in performance additives, process solutions, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and chemical intermediates. The company serves customers in over 80 countries and records over $1 billion in annual sales.

Data Center

A global chemical manufacturer

Our client is a global leader in performance additives, process solutions, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and chemical intermediates. The company serves customers in over 80 countries and records over $1 billion in annual sales.

The Problem

The chemical manufacturer struggled with performance and security limitations in its previous data protection infrastructure, which left it vulnerable to exploitation and costly operational downtime. Global scalability was also a significant challenge due to integration difficulties in certain regions across the company’s manufacturing footprint. To overcome these obstacles, the chemical manufacturer needed a specialized cloud data management solution purpose-built to enhance security, performance, and resiliency within dozens of edge locations.

This solution needed to integrate seamlessly with our client’s existing hybrid cloud infrastructure management platform while meeting its resiliency requirements for local data recovery and offsite data backup. It also had to provide data protection capabilities for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) components such as Microsoft 365. These challenges required substantial technical expertise and flexibility in designing and implementing a unified cloud data management solution whose architecture met the chemical manufacturer’s specialized technological needs.

The BlueAlly Solution

BlueAlly met with our client’s IT Director and related stakeholders to understand its data security and backup requirements. After extensive research and collaboration, BlueAlly chose Rubrik, a leading cloud data management solution, to enhance the company’s data protection infrastructure. Rubrik empowered the chemical manufacturer with intelligent data locking capabilities, end-to-end encryption, two-person rules, and network security measures, including air-gapping immutable file systems. Due to its ease of use, Rubrik integrated with our client’s existing hybrid cloud infrastructure management platform while providing additional security for SaaS components, allowing BlueAlly to leverage its expertise as a Microsoft Gold Certified partner.

The Results

We completed this immense project by collaborating closely with the chemical manufacturer’s engineers to facilitate seamless integration across its global infrastructure. Rubrik enables the company to store data in local edge environments while replicating that data into regional clouds to meet its resiliency requirements. Through our solution’s air-gapping capabilities, our client can isolate critical systems from unsecured networks, preventing operational disruption or the theft of proprietary chemical formulation data. BlueAlly’s customized solution also provides end-to-end encryption, ensuring secure data transfer to safeguard company information from data breaches.

With our assistance, the chemical manufacturer maximized its operational flexibility upon integrating Rubrik, enabling it to utilize the same granular policy-driven solution architecture to protect critical workloads on-premises or during future data center migrations to the public cloud. This flexibility positions the company for continued innovation that serves its business needs. Through this partnership, BlueAlly modernized our client’s data security and backup capabilities across its vast infrastructure, enabling digital transformation that streamlines the chemical manufacturer’s global operations.

Flexibility

Empowered the client with a flexible solution architecture suitable for future cloud migration.

Security and Backup

Modernized data security and backup through end-to-end encryption, airgapping, and more.

Ease of Integration

Integrated seamlessly with existing platforms and SaaS components.

Reliability and Resiliency

Enhanced performance and data integrity to minimize the risk of operational downtime or data loss.