Mankind Pharma, a leading pharmaceutical company in India, has selected IBM's SoftLayer cloud platform to support its business growth and expansion.

SoftLayer, an IBM company, will enable Mankind Pharma to improve the performance of its business critical applications and scale the use of these applications across multiple locations, IBM said in a statement.

SoftLayer's solution has ensured scalability of the technology infrastructure depending on Mankind Pharma’s changing business needs and has provided a combination of pay-as-you-use option (with regard to technology) as well as help in scalability to suit Mankind Pharma's business needs, IBM said.