Case Study: Alvogen achieves low-cost SAP disaster recovery and global IT agility with Microsoft Azure

Pharma Firm Uses Cloud to Protect SAP, Scale Business Globally with IT on Tap

Alvogen is a fast-growing, US-headquartered pharmaceuticals company (2,300 employees, operations in 34 countries) that consolidated its global SAP instances into a single datacenter in Croatia. That efficiency created a single point of failure, so the firm needed an economical, reliable disaster‑recovery plan that wouldn’t divert resources from its core drug‑development business.

Working with partner S&T Croatia, Alvogen implemented a disaster‑recovery‑as‑a‑service solution in Microsoft Azure—standby virtual machines, Azure Virtual Network and Storage, and SQL Server log shipping with ~5‑minute synchronization. The cloud solution delivers low‑cost, pay‑as‑you‑go protection, faster, non‑disruptive DR testing, near‑instant scalability and reduced capital expense, enabling Alvogen to consolidate datacenters, increase IT agility, and focus on growth.

Alvogen

Gudmundur Oskarsson

Chief Information Officer