Our Work

Design, deployment, and setup of Persistent Technologies (PT) sourced multi-node HPE DL360 Hyper-V HCI cluster - complete with Windows Server 2022 Datacenter - for collection of primary steel manufacturing processes.  System integrated into Factory Floor/Process domain. Project also included services to migrate existing workloads/applications to new HCI solution.  Customer also provided management/monitoring tools – along with some training.

• System hosts key workloads vital to operations of high-value steel manufacturing processes 
• Provides higher performance and availability for workloads/applications
• Licensing model allows for unlimited guest VMs – limited only by cluster host resources
• Solution designed to provide significant additional capacity to support future innovation needs
• Design allows migrated guest VMs OS to be upgraded to most recent Windows Server (2022) running on Hosts – without any additional licensing costs

Design and startup of new compute/storage infrastructure for large stainless steel production line – based on multiple HPE servers and thin clients – as well as Dell storage and workstations.  Project included re-design of key workloads along with proper workload distribution.  Also designed and implemented new Factory Floor based Active Directory (AD) domain – complete with users, groups, OUs, GPOs (to control user environment), sites, subnets and logon scripts – and printer management.  Instituted HMI UI paradigm shift from thick client architecture to Remote Desktop Services (RDS)/Terminal services.  Custom utilities/automation tools were created to help ensure conversion accuracy and speed.

• 3-million-dollar project with unprecedented startup speed and success – with minimal production disruption  
• Significant reduction of TCO with overall new architecture design
• Customer estimated 2 million dollars project savings

Compute/storage infrastructure design and implementation for primary steel producer – predominantly based on Dell Servers and workstations.  Project included deployment, configuration, and startup of key workloads.  Also included design and implementation of virtualization strategy.
 

For LOB customer involved in Biotech and Pharmaceutical recruiting, migrated all knowledge worker/business productivity operations to Office 365.  On-prem custom LOB application, and key associated workloads hosted on VMware, migrated to Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Secure global access to custom web-based application provided via Azure AD App proxy and Azure Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS).   

• Access to enterprise grade productivity tools for a small monthly fee
• LOB application secure anywhere access
• Instantaneous access to new features without any incremental cost
• Guaranteed availability with an SLA > 99.99%

Factory Floor based Active Directory (AD) domain design and implementation – defining all users, groups, OUs, GPOs (to control user environment), sites, subnets and logon scripts.  Leveraged by enterprise HMI for user sign on.

• Centralized user management
• Extensive user environment management
• Single sign on and password policy

Virtualization strategy and migration path design for large stainless steel production line.  Design included migration of 13 bare metal servers and all associated workloads to a Hyper-V architecture running on 2 high-powered HPE servers.  Design also included leveraging System Center components (SCCM\SCVMM\SCOM) for management and monitoring.

• Consolidation of hardware – lower TCO
• Increased workload performance
• Higher workload availability

For vital production databases used by large steel manufacturer, designed and implemented effective SQL Server maintenance plans providing 15-30 minute recovery point objective (RPO) and low recovery time objective (RTO).  In the unlikely event of disaster, solution provided customer with minimal loss of data and production time.
 

Design and implementation of disaster recovery solution for large stainless steel production facility Factory Floor/Process AD domain.