Using Hosted Chef, Medidata's DevOps team has been able to deliver highly available web-based services, adapting to fluctuations in demand on the fly without downtime or system interruptions to meet its wide range of customer needs. Leveraging infrastructure as code, Medidata has automated the configuration, management, change control and reporting of compute resources, reducing application delivery cycles from weeks to less than 24 hours. Customer Benefits: With security and auditing critical to Medidata's operations, the life sciences innovator needed an automation engine capable of providing up-to-date and historical documentation of its infrastructure without significant manual data entry or management.