Gerresheimer AG is no ordinary manufacturer of glass and plastic products. This global enterprise specializes in unique packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The company’s ongoing success requires continuous innovation, and the utmost attention to quality. Gerresheimer business units around the world must share and analyze quality data to meet manufacturing objectives and customer expecta- tions. However, with a conventional WAN maxed out at 3 Mbps, connecting users to applications and sharing data became slow and difficult. Greg Taylor, Gerresheimer’s manager of IT infra- structure in North America, describes the situation: “We had regional data centers for each of our business units so applications and data could be close to the point of use

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