3DPLM Software Solutions Deploys NetApp Virtualisation Solutions

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 virtualised IT infrastructure. With the increasing usage of PLM in India and across the world, 3DPLM needed greater flexibility and scalability to help over 1500 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 percent storage capacity due to de-duplication feature, and 20 percent due to thin provisioning.

Surajit Sen, Director, Channels Marketing & Alliances, NetApp India, said, “We strongly believe that NetApp’s innovative and future ready systems and solutions will play an important role in changing the economics of IT in India Inc. We are delighted that progressive companies like 3DPLM are realising the advantages of NetApp’s virtualisation solutions in their bid to drive organisational efficiencies.”

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 virtualised computing environment. With a fast growing business, we were also facing increasing demands of containing server sprawl. With NetApp’s innovative and scalable storage systems and solutions, our concerns are now addressed, and we believe we will ride on the resulting flexibility and efficiency to rapidly support our users and save tremendously on power, cooling and datacentre space.”

3DPLM carries out research and development for Dassault Systèmes products in India. 3DPLM, along with NetApp team, discussed the company’s challenges for virtualisation; 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. Virtualising more than 350 servers will help 3DPLM save a projected 119KW of power and any sudden increase in the business requirement can be fulfilled without any loss of time.