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Configuration Management

Transforming Product Development with Configuration Management

Transforming Product Development with Configuration Management

When developing products, there are many components to keep track of such as parts, data, and configurations.  Keeping up with every minor alteration to a product can be difficult, but using a PLM system like PTC Windchill can help you stay organized.  Configuration...

Five Reasons to Outsource Compute Farm and Server Management

Five Reasons to Outsource Compute Farm and Server Management

The paradigm of computing resource configurations have changed several times of the last 40 years. From mainframes to mini computers, through desktops and file servers to server farms, software as a service and the cloud. Any company that uses server farms or...

How to Monitor Your APC UPS Units – Part 1

How to Monitor Your APC UPS Units – Part 1

Picture your ideal company technological infrastructure. Servers to handle day to day tasks, servers to do engineering simulations, network equipment to handle communication, network-attached storage for your company critical data, and last but not least,...

How to monitor Windows servers using Nagios and NSClient

How to monitor Windows servers using Nagios and NSClient

One of the best monitoring software packages available for system administrators is Nagios. It's free, open source, has a large community of developers and users for support and can be relied upon to provide outstanding monitoring for mission critical devices. As part...

Tackling Complexity in Product Variants

Tackling Complexity in Product Variants

In today's highly competitive marketplace, customers are demanding more customization options. In order to stand out, product and software development tools must not only support variants but also provide efficient variant management capabilities. PTC’s Windchill and...

The Case for Shifting BOM Management from ERP to PLM Systems

The Case for Shifting BOM Management from ERP to PLM Systems

Many companies are managing their BOMs in ERP rather than a PLM system due to the desire for better data reporting in the ERP. Although this is understandable, there are plenty of use cases for managing a BOM in a PLM system such as Windchill. Many businesses...

Reverse Proxy Configurations

Reverse Proxy Configurations

Now it's time to look at some of the server side configurations. The first step is to configure reverse proxy for the HTTP services. These services live on hosts that sit in the DMZ. A proxy is very simple to configure and allows a lot of flexibility to grow over time...

3 Options for Network Installation and Application Management

3 Options for Network Installation and Application Management

It seems like every week there’s another article about “Network Installation Services” – even if we don’t realize it. I believe Apple really hit the nail on the head with their iPhone App Store, as evidenced by the copy-cat implementations in the WebOS App Catalog,...