Connected an engineering team to cloud high-performance computing in a regulated region, without moving their license server, and had engineers running simulations within days.
An engineering-led manufacturer needed more computing power for its simulation work. The answer was a cloud HPC platform with regions built for controlled data. The catch was licensing. The simulation licenses lived on a license server in the company's private cloud, and every job had to stay connected to that server for as long as it ran. Some jobs run for a week.
The platform offered several ways to connect. The cheapest sent license traffic unencrypted, which ruled it out. The most secure option involved three outside parties and would take weeks to set up, and the engineers needed to start sooner than that.
The work was split into two phases, so engineers weren't stuck waiting on the long-term design.
A temporary encrypted connection went live first. When a network block turned up along the way, it was worked through with the cloud provider's operations team. The connection was set up to restart on its own after reboots, so nobody had to babysit it.
At the same time, permanent encrypted connections to two regulated cloud regions came up, coordinated across the cloud provider, the HPC platform and its network partner. Once tested end to end, license traffic moved over and the temporary connection was retired.
The platform was also connected to the company's existing sign-in for single sign-on, and a troubleshooting runbook means anyone on the team can support it.
Days, not weeks.