A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

Putting your Design on a Cloud

Putting your Design on a Cloud
olegshilovitsky
olegshilovitsky
18 December, 2008 | 1 min for reading

In my previous posts I already touched on “cloud services” aspects of product delivery and operation. There are multiple examples of cloud services available today, starting from probably the most established Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2, followed by Google, and, as well, the latterly announced Microsoft Azure Service Platform. These services may become very popular and useful in the PLM area for applications related to common data sharing, data exchange and collaborative access. But in order to make it really happen, we will need to develop a reliable application available to support such a service. Actually, the service platform needs to be invisible, providing reliable user experience on top of these services without particularly mentioning the notion of cloud services.

A good example of an application that supports such an approach is SolidWorks’ BluePrint Now. You can run the application inside the browser and store your drawing directly in the Web storage. This implementation combines two coexisting services – the ability to run a Web- based design editor together with the ability to store files on a cloud.

Another example of applications available as services that will be able to be connected in the future to a cloud service-oriented approach is the applications available from the DS 3DVIA brand. Some of them are tools (such as 3D Via Shape), but potentially can be connected to cloud services for a variety of options for storing and exchanging information. More on http://www.3dvia.com/software/3dvia-shape/tour.

[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ZjogEYiXE&eurl=http://www.3dvia.com/software/3dvia-shape/tour/]

 

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
5 December, 2011

Crowd-sourcing is a popular trend these days. For those of you out of sync, in a nutshell, crowd-sourcing is a...

28 July, 2009

I think, PLM evolved for the last few years to become accepted by many companies. Started from bigger auto- and...

2 July, 2010

I have been discussing Cloud-related topics on PLM Think Tank actively since last year. I think, the term is hugely...

17 March, 2020

I grew up in a country where supermarkets and grocery shops shelves were empty. Your best luck was to the...

19 November, 2009

Microsoft finally made available beta versions of Office 2010 and SharePoint 1010 yesterday. So, I finally have an account to...

21 June, 2017

Yesterday, I was talking about PLM vendors buying stakes in infrastructure companies to develop more reliable and cost effective cloud...

29 January, 2024

Bill of Materials management is a core data management and a foundation of every PLM system. It brings mechanisms to...

23 May, 2016

Innovation platforms is a new trend in engineering and manufacturing software. Read my earlier article Sweet Dreams about Product Innovation...

7 June, 2020

In my What is PLM Circa 2020s article, I talk about how I see the future of PLM development. The...

Blogroll

To the top