2011.04.20 S&T Revit Cloud

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BUSINESS BENEFITS

S &T R e v i t C l o u d - Business Benefits


High System Resource Utilisation
• Up to 12 Revit operators can concurrently connect to each
Revit Cloud box. Each Revit operator runs a discrete Revit
session as a Remote Application.


• Each Revit Cloud Box presents a system resource pool of 24
hyper threaded CPU cores, 2GB of GPU, and 32 GB of RAM.
Adding additional Revit Cloud boxes into a “Revit Cloud
Farm” multiplies the available system resource pool.


• Each Revit Cloud Box presents a system resource pool of 24
hyper threaded CPU cores, 2GB of GPU, and 32 GB of RAM.
Adding additional Revit Cloud boxes into a “Revit Cloud
Farm” multiplies the available system resource pool.
• Revit operators can confidently interface with the largest
Revit project files within the Revit Cloud environment
without risk of local computer system crashes due to
insufficient system resources.


64bit OS Stability
• The Revit Cloud environment is completely 64bit. Recent
Autodesk research has revealed that running 64bit Revit on a
64bit OS is up to twice as stable as running 32bit Revit on a
32bit OS environment.


64bit OS Stability
• Fundamentally the only difference between 32bit and 64bit
software is that 64bit software allows more access to system
memory. Access to more memory means that the OS isn’t
as taxed when running Revit and Revit isn’t crammed for
memory space.


64bit OS Stability
• Fundamentally the only difference between 32bit and 64bit
software is that 64bit software allows more access to system
memory. Access to more memory means that the OS isn’t
as taxed when running Revit and Revit isn’t crammed for
memory space.
• The S&T Revit Cloud environment has been running
continuously since May 2010 with 100% system uptime.


Increased ROI from Datacentre-based
Consolidation
• The business investment in IT is consolidated into
Datacentre-based Revit Infrastructure rather than buried
into Revit operator personal computing hardware.


Consolidation
• This Datacentre-based infrastructure investment becomes
a highly utilised asset that is leveraged across the entire
organisation, helping to deliver a significant return on
infrastructure and licensing investments.


Consolidation
• This Datacentre-based infrastructure investment becomes
a highly utilised asset that is leveraged across the entire
organisation, helping to deliver a significant return on
infrastructure and licensing investments.
• Ongoing investment in Revit operator personal computers
can be at a significantly lower cost.


Modular & Scalable Design
The Revit Cloud is designed to be completely modular and scal-
able. By simply adding additional Revit Cloud boxes into a “Revit
Cloud Farm”, the infrastructure can be scaled to accommodate
any increase in Revit operator numbers.


HP Z400 iPhone CPU


Load Balanced Hardware
• The Revit Cloud is effectively a Datacentre-based pool
of high-performance CPU/GPU/RAM system resources
optimised for the Revit Remote Application environment.


• Access to the Cloud resources is controlled and load-
balanced by the “Revit Cloud Broker” to ensure that no one
Revit operator can consume an excessive level of system
resources to the detriment or risk of other concurrently
connected Revit operators.


• Access to the Cloud resources is controlled and load-
balanced by the “Revit Cloud Broker” to ensure that no one
Revit operator can consume an excessive level of system
resources to the detriment or risk of other concurrently
connected Revit operators.
• When a Revit operator connects to the Revit Cloud, the
Revit Cloud Broker seamlessly connects the operator to a
Revit Cloud Box in the “Farm” that has the least number of
concurrent Revit operator connections.


12:1 Revit Operator Density
S&T’s Revit Cloud system resource specification has been de-
signed to accommodate up to 12 concurrently connected Revit
operators working in an integrated Revit Workset environment.


12:1 Revit Operator Density
S&T’s Revit Cloud system resource specification has been de-
signed to accommodate up to 12 concurrently connected Revit
operators working in an integrated Revit Workset environment.

Local-Like Revit Performance
• Extremely positive feedback has been received from
S&T Revit operators running Revit in the production
environment as a RemoteApp over the LAN to S&T’s Revit
Cloud Farm.


• The comments received have enabled S&T to conclude
that Revit Cloud has a similar level of responsiveness and
performance compared with operating Revit locally on the
latest HP Z600 workstation hardware.


• The comments received have enabled S&T to conclude
that Revit Cloud has a similar level of responsiveness and
performance compared with operating Revit locally on the
latest HP Z600 workstation hardware.

• The performance of Revit Cloud is significantly more
responsive than locally installed Revit for operations where
the Revit supports hyper threading eg batch printing.


Low-Cost Revit Operator Personal Computer
Hardware
• S&T’s Revit Cloud provisions Revit to the operator as a
discreet Remote Application. As the Revit application is
running remotely to the operator personal computer, Revit
consumes the system resources of the Revit Cloud Box, not
the resources of the personal computer.


Hardware
• The Revit operator’s local workstation becomes a mere user
interface into the Revit Cloud environment.


Hardware
• The Revit operator’s local workstation becomes a mere user
interface into the Revit Cloud environment.
• Only video images, keyboard strokes, and mouse clicks are
transmitted to and from the Revit Cloud Box over the LAN/
WAN.


• In theory, any old or low-resource computing hardware
can be utilised as an effective Revit modelling computer,
even for large and complex Revit model files. Even
thin-client computers with minimal system resources have
been demonstrated to be effective, low-cost, Revit Cloud
“interface” devices.


Hardware/OS Agnostic
(Window 7 Pro and XP Pro Preferred)
• Whilst the preferred and optimised Revit operator
computing environment is a personal computer running
Windows 7 Pro or Windows XP Pro OS, it is indeed possible
to deploy S&T’s Revit Cloud to non-Windows OS computing
devices, including Apple Mac.


Hardware/OS Agnostic
(Window 7 Pro and XP Pro Preferred)
• Whilst the preferred and optimised Revit operator
computing environment is a personal computer running
Windows 7 Pro or Windows XP Pro OS, it is indeed possible
to deploy S&T’s Revit Cloud to non-Windows OS computing
devices, including Apple Mac.
• Revit Cloud has been successfully demonstrated on an
Apple iPhone, and a deployment model for Apple iPad, or
similar Windows-based slate computing devices is planned
for 2011.


Geographically Distributed WAN Collaboration
• Geographically distributed Revit design and documentation
teams can collaborate securely over the public internet
using SSL-VPN and S&T’s Revit Cloud RemoteApp.


Geographically Distributed WAN Collaboration
• Geographically distributed Revit design and documentation
teams can collaborate securely over the public internet
using SSL-VPN and S&T’s Revit Cloud RemoteApp.
• The available bandwidth and latency of the WAN
connection will dictate the number of concurrent WAN-
based Revit RemoteApp connections permitted, and
the type of collaboration activity possible. A number of
off-the-shelf WAN accelerator appliances available on the
market can assist with minimising the negative effects of
contested bandwidth and higher latency WAN connections.


• The optimal work environment for a team of “Revit Modeller”
operators is a LAN based Revit Cloud solution. This workflow
can be extended to geographically distributed WAN based
“Revit Modellers” provisioned over a high speed/low-latency
VPN connection on fiber.


• The optimal work environment for a team of “Revit Modeller”
operators is a LAN based Revit Cloud solution. This workflow
can be extended to geographically distributed WAN based
“Revit Modellers” provisioned over a high speed/low-latency
VPN connection on fiber.
• WAN based “Revit Reviewers”, who’s primary activity is the
review of the Revit model on the Revit Cloud, rather than
being tasked with the “heavy-lifting” role of modifying
the Revit model, can be easily accommodated over lower-
bandwidth, higher-latency WAN connections. Wan-based
“Revit Reviewers” can interface with the Revit Cloud over
residential quality copper based connections provided the
number of concurrent connections is limited to no more
than 2 operators.


Anywhere/Anytime Nationwide (and International)
Access
• The Revit Cloud is designed as a secure and highly-available
24/7/365 Datacentre-based SaaS RemoteApp for both LAN
and WAN-based Revit operators and “model reviewers”
across a range of client interface devices.


Anywhere/Anytime Nationwide (and International)
Access
• The Revit Cloud is designed as a secure and highly-available
24/7/365 Datacentre-based SaaS RemoteApp for both LAN
and WAN-based Revit operators and “model reviewers”
across a range of client interface devices.
• The Revit Cloud SaaS design fully supports the concept of
a mobile yet highly connected Revit-based workforce.


Rapid Provisioning
• Secure and Rapid Provisioning of Approved Application
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Rapid Provisioning
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• S&T’s Revit Cloud supports rapid provisioning of
approved Revit “images” that are preinstalled, patched to
the appropriate build number, and deployed as a Remote
Applications to the Revit operator team.


Rapid Provisioning
Image
• S&T’s Revit Cloud supports rapid provisioning of
approved Revit “images” that are preinstalled, patched to
the appropriate build number, and deployed as a Remote
Applications to the Revit operator team.
• Access to all Revit Cloud Remote Applications is controlled
by membership of the appropriate security group. A new
Revit operator can be added to the appropriate security
group and be using an approved Revit Cloud RemoteApp
within minutes of joining the project team.


Improved Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
• Revit Cloud is designed as a fully redundant failover system,
with Revit Cloud Datacentres situated in S&T’s Auckland and
Wellington offices.


Wellington offices.
• RAID-5 SAN storage devices in both offices coupled with
inter-office replication technologies underpin the BCP and
DR strategies ensuring continuity of service levels with
minimal data and productivity loss.


Wellington offices.
• RAID-5 SAN storage devices in both offices coupled with
inter-office replication technologies underpin the BCP and
DR strategies ensuring continuity of service levels with
minimal data and productivity loss.
• The Revit Cloud, SAN and Data Replication services are
monitored 24/7 by an accredited IT monitoring agency,


Utilisation of Revit Network License Assets
• S&T’s Revit Cloud deploys Revit as a discreet RemoteApp
utilising 1:1 per-user seats from Autodesk’s Network
Licensing Server license pool to ensure compliance with
Autodesk’s EULA.


Autodesk’s EULA.
• Revit Network Licenses, despite attracting a one-off
establishment cost, have the potential to achieve up to 30%
higher license utilisation rates in a production environment
compared with stand-alone licensing deployments.


Autodesk’s EULA.
• Revit Network Licenses, despite attracting a one-off
establishment cost, have the potential to achieve up to 30%
higher license utilisation rates in a production environment
compared with stand-alone licensing deployments.
• S&T’s Network License Server can be easily configured to
host external consultant’s Revit licenses (on a project basis),
thus enabling the external consultant’s Revit operators direct
access to the S&T Revit Cloud collaborative environment.


S&T Intellectual Property
S&T’s Revit Cloud is fully designed and built by S&T’s ICT &
BIM Teams and is constituted the intellectual property of
Stephenson&Turner NZ Ltd.

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