Windchill PLM on Amazon Cloud

IDEA

Cloud Computing for Windchill PLM which provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services in isolated network. It is First to Market to host internet facing enterprise application Windchill PLM over Amazon Cloud. It should also serve multi-site requirement of Security, High availability, Application Performance.

CLIENT

It is diversified health and Well-being Company, focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation.

BUSINESS SITUATION

Client wanted to use Cloud Computing for Windchill PLM which provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services in isolated network. It is First to Market to host internet facing enterprise application Windchill PLM over Amazon Cloud. It should also serve multi-site requirement of Security, High availability, Application Performance.

HOW WE HELPED

We Infrastructure services expertise to achieve the application hosting over Amazon Cloud. The highlights of this solution being,

·         Architecture Design and deployment of Load Balanced Windchill PLM Cluster.

·          Deployed and managed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances using Amazon Control Tower.

·          Recommended Hardware Sizing for Amazon EC2 Instances for Windchill Cluster.

·          Recommended and deployed High Availability solution using multiple availability zone and Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).

·          Deployed APM – Application Performance Management tool Compuware dynaTrace and user experience management module.

·          Windchill PLM and IBM Cognos integration deployment in Amazon VPC.

·          Recommended and configured Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) with Windchill PLM

·          Configured to use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) for advanced security features such as security groups and network access control for Windchill PLM

BUSINESS IMPACT

Windchill PLM Infrastructure Solution for Amazon Cloud resulted in various key benefits such as:

 First to Market - Windchill PLM Infrastructure Solution team delivered challenging goal of client to deploy PTC’s Windchill PLM enterprise application in Amazon Cloud.

Flexible, On-Demand and tailor Made Enterprise application hosting in Cloud - We helped client to select Flexible, On-Demand and Tailor Made instances for better utilization memory, CPU, instance storage, operating system and database.

Secured Windchill website over Internet - We deployed Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) behind WAF (Web Application Firewall) of Akamai and isolated network with security groups.

Minimal and restricted corporate network interaction with Amazon cloud - Deployed Secured Corporate LDAP integration with Windchill PLM in Amazon Cloud.

 

Cost Reduction - Wedelivered financial benefits to client, client paid a very low rate for the compute capacity they actually consumed.

Disclosure: I’m responsible for Infrastructure Solutions as service.