VECO was challenged to provide a globally distributed environment for engineering and project-based initiatives, which resulted in the development of a new platform to execute distributed projects. As Bentley’s distributed DigitalPlant environment developed, VECO required a new and more robust IT infrastructure to support this new technology. 

This new replicated environment, when used in conjunction with ProjectWise and AutoPLANT, effectively provides an EPC firm with the ability to share the scope of a project between many satellite offices. The new environment consists of four new blade servers at each regional office; a NetApp for data storage at each regional office; more than 300 workstations over multiple regions; Bentley ProjectWise, caching, and Web server; and Bentley’s DigitalPlant replicated environment.