NetApp has announced that it will help 3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd., a joint venture company of Geometric Limited and Dassault Systèmes involved in CAD and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) product development, to make the transition to virtualized IT infrastructure. With the increasing usage of PLM in India and across the world, 3DPLM needed greater flexibility and scalability to help over 1,500 developers and engineers built better applications.
NetApp’s systems and solutions, being deployed in two phases, will help 3DPLM improve the economics of their internal IT infrastructure. This will help the company increase storage capacity and lower costs. 3DPLM could save nearly 60% storage capacity due to de-duplication feature, and 20% due to thin provisioning.
Manoj Bhat, Head IT Operations, 3DPLM, said, “Our engineers work on very heavy files, and therefore good storage was one of the key elements in our transition towards a virtualized computing environment. With a fast growing business, we were also facing increasing demands of containing server sprawl. With NetApp’s systems and solutions, our concerns are addressed and we will ride on the resulting flexibility and efficiency to rapidly support our users and save tremendously on power, cooling and data center space.”
3DPLM carries out research and development for Dassault Systèmes products in India. 3DPLM, along with NetApp team, discussed the company’s challenges for virtualization; and with the help of NetApp’s Global Services team designed and deployed a solution that incorporated Cisco UCS, VMware and NetApp technologies and products to deliver a complete, end-to-end solution. Together, these features create a flexible platform that can be scaled to accommodate a variety of enterprise application workloads. Virtualizing over 350 servers will help 3DPLM save a projected 119 kWh of power and any sudden increase in the business requirement can be fulfilled without any loss of time.
