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From laptops to a dual-site engineering cloud.

Implemented a private, dual-site engineering cloud that moved an engineering team off scattered laptops and onto a single source of truth for design data.

INDUSTRY
Advanced manufacturing
SERVICES
Infrastructure implementation, identity, backup and recovery, vendor coordination

The challenge

A manufacturer's engineering team was designing on individual laptops. Files lived wherever each engineer saved them, with nothing tracking versions or releases. The company wanted one source of truth for engineering data, secure remote access for engineers in several locations, and a platform that could grow well beyond its first team.

There was a lot to bring in: tens of terabytes of historical and active data and thousands of design files. As a public company, it also had to keep IT controls tight enough for its auditors.

How our founder delivered it

With the architecture already agreed, our founder implemented it with a US cloud provider, across a primary site and a separate disaster recovery site, with secure remote access for engineers.

The product data management system was set up with separate production and test environments, so changes could be tried before they reached live data. Sign-in at both sites was tied into the company's existing Microsoft identity platform. Our founder worked alongside the software vendor's implementation partner, handling the infrastructure, database and access side while they configured the application.

Every server went into managed backup. When some backups started failing, our founder traced the problem to its root cause and fixed it, then confirmed every server was backing up cleanly.

RESULTS

2 sites.

  • About 20 engineers moved off local laptops and onto one central system
  • A primary site and a disaster recovery site, with every server in managed backup
  • Separate production and test environments for safe changes
  • Sign-in tied into the company's existing identity platform
  • A platform sized to grow well past the first team
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