New IT for new pharma: Cloud as catalyst for Sanofi innovation
summary
Sanofi details an 10‑year infrastructure rewrite: a prior 80% data‑center consolidation plus claimed >50% IT savings, now moving 11,000 servers to AWS and targeting ~60% of workloads to two clouds (AWS and GCP), keeping a simple private cloud for the rest and ~20% on legacy systems. Concrete tools include GitLab, Terraform and OpenShift for a DevOps pipeline; SAP migration to AWS (HANA), heavy application rationalization (3,000 apps assessed), compliance gating, and a large upskilling program.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:25A decade of infrastructure
- 9:13Defining the scope
- 12:31Cloud strategy pillars
- 19:10Talent and organizational change
- 29:19Transformation and operations
- 34:13Business adoption and results
- 39:28Reflections and lessons learned
- 47:28Q&A and concluding remarks
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