2010 Best Practices Competition IT & Informatics HPC

2010 Bio IT Award
1. Nominating Organization
Organization name: JPR Communications
Address: 20750 Ventura blvd Ste.350
City: Woodland Hills
State: CA
2. Nominating Contact Person
Name: Judy Smith
Title: President
Phone:8188848282
Email: judys@jprcom.com
3. User Organization
Organization name: Amylin Pharmaceuticals
Address: 9360 Towne Centre Drive
City: San Diego
State: CA
Zip: 92121
4. Contact Person
Name: Steve Phillpott
Title: CIO
Phone: 858-309-7585
Email: Steve.Phillpott@amylin.com
5. Project
Project Title: Amylin Virtual Data Center
Category: IT and Informatics
6. Description of project (4 FIGURES MAXIMUM):
See slide presentation
A. ABSTRACT/SUMMARY of the project and results (800 characters max.)
Amylin Pharmaceuticals is a San Diego-based biopharma company, focused on providing first in
class therapies for diabetes and obesity. Accomplishing Amylin’s mission of “Challenging
Science and Changing Lives” requires tremendous IT capabilities, and the company has a history
of being an early adopter of technology.
In 2008, the company’s need for additional technology investment ran headlong into the
economic realities of the time. Additionally, Amylin began to pursue a more flexible business
model, emphasizing partnerships and virtualization over doing everything itself. In short, a core
philosophy became “access tremendous capabilities, without owning those capabilities”.
Amylin’s CIO, Steve Phillpott, and his IT leadership team applied this new strategy, developing an
operating model they called the “Amylin Virtual Data Center”, which utilizes detailed service
costing and cloud and SaaS capabilities to dramatically lower the cost of IT.