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Automotive Product Lifecycle Management

Automotive product lifecycle management

Increase productivity, improve product quality, and shorten time to market with robust data management capabilities for product lifecycle management in the cloud.

NetApp Solutions for Automotive PLM in the Cloud

Automotive companies have embraced product lifecycle management (PLM) software such as Siemens Teamcenter and Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform to streamline product management from design to production to purchase, across the value chain.

PLM solutions increase productivity, enhance collaboration, improve product quality, bolster creativity, and shorten time to market. However, these infrastructures can be expensive to operate and maintain.

Controlling data growth while reducing overall operating costs is challenging. In this highly competitive market, getting new innovations to market quickly is imperative, but traditional IT procurement cycles are long and create roadblocks in the race to market. To get past these roadblocks, many automotive companies are moving their mission-critical PLM solutions to the cloud to get the agility, innovative performance, and operational efficiency that only the cloud can offer.

NetApp Solutions for Automotive PLM in the Cloud overview

Features and Benefits

The capabilities that set NetApp Solutions for Automotive PLM in the Cloud apart.

Easier said than done

Technical Challenges of PLM in the Cloud

Migrating and operating PLM systems in the cloud, without sacrificing on-premises benefits, comes with technical challenges that automotive companies must overcome:
  • Data management. Control large volumes of data growth with the ability to seamlessly scale as needed.
  • Performance. Deliver high throughput and low latency for fast data access, without compromising data protection and security.
  • Data access. Enables users to access and share data around the world with customized governance and access policies for each stakeholder.
  • Integration. Integrate with high-resolution workstations to empower CAD and CAE designers.
  • Future-ready. Support next-generation application use cases, including development of digital twins in the cloud, VR, AR, and virtual discussion rooms.

Key NetApp benefits

Key NetApp benefits

  • Reduce data footprint and overall data volume with advanced storage efficiency technologies
  • Decrease cloud infrastructure spend
  • Reduce time to operate and maintain the PLM infrastructure
  • Access data across all locations and environments, on premises and in the cloud

NetApp solutions for PLM in the cloud

Netapp Solutions For Automotive Plm In The Cloud features

Data protection

Encrypt data at the organizational level enable data sovereignty. You maintain ownership of the encryption keys.

Multiprotocol access

Manage the variety of data in your PLM system with support for multiple protocols, including SMB, NFS, and more.

Enterprise-grade data management capabilities

Optimize backup, data recovery, and disaster recovery with industry-leading and highly adopted technologies such as NetApp FlexClone®.

Easy migration

Enable easier, faster, and more efficient migration of mission-critical PLM systems to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with NetApp SnapMirror® technology.

Simplified management

Reduce administrative effort and avoid the need to acquire new skills. Further reduce administrative burdens with NetApp managed storage services.

NetApp solution components

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP®

Cloud Volumes ONTAP offers enterprise-grade cloud storage for complex PLM installations in all public clouds—AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is an integrated data storage platform, complete with the enterprise-grade capabilities needed to overcome hosting PLM systems across environments.

Azure NetApp Files

Azure NetApp Files is a Microsoft Azure native, high-performance file storage service for mission-critical PLM applications.
Expert Guidance

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Technical Specifications

Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.

  • Efficiency Savings Ratio
    4:1 efficiency savings by reducing overall data volume and consequently, costs; for example, you can go from 4PB to 1PB effectively stored.
  • Tiering Savings
    5X potential savings by allocating 20% hot data and 80% cold data with tiering option.

  • Public Cloud Platforms
    Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud

  • Multiprotocol Access
    SMB, NFS, and more

  • Supported PLM Software
    Siemens Teamcenter, Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform

  • Cloud Gateway
    Connects power users to the cloud environment
  • PLM Availability Location A
    Web-Tier, Enterprise-Tier, Database Server, NetApp Cloud Storage (Environment A1 and A2)
  • PLM Availability Location B
    Web-Tier, Enterprise-Tier, Database Server, NetApp Cloud Storage
  • CAD License Server
    Included in the PLM infrastructure
  • Cloud Tier
    Included in the PLM infrastructure

  • Phone
    +1 877 263 8277
  • Email
  • Website
    www.netapp.com
  • Document ID
    NA-802-0222
  • Copyright
    © 2022 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Compare NetApp Solutions for Automotive PLM in the Cloud Series

Select the right scale for your workload demands.

Compare NetApp Solutions for Automotive PLM in the Cloud Series — capacity and port configuration by model.
Model Name Max Capacity Port Config Action
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP® Enterprise-grade cloud storage for complex PLM installations AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Get Quote
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Integrated data storage platform with enterprise-grade capabilities AWS Get Quote
Azure NetApp Files High-performance file storage service for mission-critical PLM applications Microsoft Azure Get Quote

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