HTL-STREFA ships close to 10 million safety lancets, personal lancets and insulin pen needles to hospitals, clinics and laboratories around the world every day, improving patients’ comfort and medical professionals’ safety on a daily basis. The company’s plants manufacture new products round the clock, and the overall process oversight is provided by staff based at the offices in Poland and the US. To support these operations, HTL- STREFA needed a secure and reliable IT environment. Today, a near- surgical level of process stability is a critical requirement for businesses in the medical technology industry, which is why HTL-STREFA worked with VMware Cloud Provider Partner Ergonet to upgrade its data center using VMware Cloud Verified services , boosting the performance and security of its business-critical systems and increasing their availability to more than 99.999 percent.

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Jens Koegler

Jens Koegler is VMware's Healthcare Industry Director in EMEA. He is helping our healthcare customers develop and run modern applications to drive innovation and ensure better patient care through a digital foundation that includes data center, hybrid cloud, mobile, networking and security technologies. VMware plays a strategic role in the healthcare industry. Its leading innovations in enterprise software help ensure consistent patient care and reduce IT access time for healthcare professionals so they can spend more time with their patients. Jens plays a key role in helping customers understand how new applications, devices, the latest IT technologies and digital transformation are driving innovation in healthcare.