This rather extensive and elaborate hands-on in-lab demo is designed to highlight the value Hybrid Cloud can bring to the Factory Floor. Numerous topics included throughout this website are incorporated in the demo, and although covering the demo in its entirety can take hours, selecting a subset of items/topics for review certainly is a viable option as well.
We invite you to
contact us to make arrangements to witness this technology in action first-hand. Those who have already experienced it have found it engaging, fun, and quite informative! We trust you will as well.
Items/topics included in the demo:
1. Mixed Reality in Action
- Overview of how to operate HoloLens 2 — state-of-the-art Mixed-Reality headset
- Experience an animated life-size 3D Astronaut floating in the room right in front of you
- 3D real-time view of all plane departures/arrivals at Atlanta International Airport — highlighting Mixed Reality/IoT capabilities
- Advanced remote expert collaboration & assistance
- Use Microsoft Guides to perform final setup of a 3D Printer and printout a 3D (logo) object
2. Modern Identity
- Azure Active Directory (AD) — Identity as the Control Plane
- Hybrid Identity — Azure AD Connect
- Identity Protection
- Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
- Conditional Access
- Passwordless Authentication
3. Secure VPN-less Global Access(Azure AD App Proxy)
- Remote MFA enabled RDP connections
- Access to on-prem published apps
- Conditional Access/Device Mgmt.
- Windows Admin Center (WAC) remote access
- GE Proficy WebSpace remote access
4. Cloud Based Security Solutions
- Windows Defender for Identity — for on-prem AD monitoring
- Windows Defender for Endpoint/Servers/Cloud
- Azure Update Management
5. On-Prem Compute
- Azure Stack HCI/S2D
- Azure Stack Hub (Development Kit) — Private Cloud System — fully integrated with lab network and running both GE CIMPLICITY and SQL Server in IaaS
6. Management/Monitoring
- Windows Admin Center (WAC)
- Cloud based Performance Monitoring and Alerting
- Azure Log Analytics Solutions:
- Active Directory Health Check
- AD Replication Status
- DNS Analytics
- SQL Health Check
7. Azure SQL
- SQL Server on Azure VMs
- Azure SQL Database — used in conjunction with GE CIMPLICITY Redundancy
8. Veeam V12 Based Backup & DR
- VBR Console overview
- VBR Enterprise Manager overview
- Veeam One overview
- Files/Folders backup/recovery
- SQL Server backup/recovery
- Full VM backup/recovery
- Active Directory backup/recovery
- Scale-Out Backup Repositories — integrated with Azure Blob storage
9. File Share/File Sync
- Azure File Sync between multiple on prem-servers
10. Information Protection
- Microsoft Purview Information Protection — to control visibility of valueable production documents