A mix of public and private cloud applications and infrastructure is
quickly replacing the current cumbersome physical infrastructure owned
by an enterprise. The approach for the pharma industry should be to unify
on-premise application management with public and private cloud services,
to reduce costs and ensure flexible access to high compute resources.
This would entail a plethora of challenges including complex integration
as well as data disparity issues due to incongruent systems. The IT
service provider will have to plan for a slow and arduous journey if future
businessand compliance needs have to be met. Web 3.0 systems would be
the need of the hour in this cloud based support environment.
The biggest challenge for service providers continues to remain the
evolving nature of cloud technology. The answer lies in creating
customized solutions that can maximize benefits.