PowerPoint Presentation

Why GE Renewable Energy and Multiview

stream their desktop applications

E U C 3 4 1

Murali Rathinasamy

Sr. Tech. Product Manager

Amazon AppStream 2.0

Amazon Web Services

Ian Chadwick

Solutions Architect

GE Renewable Energy

Jamil El Ghazal

Technology Leader

Multiview Corporation

Fully managed application streaming

Amazon AppStream 2.0

UsersDesktop application next to servers and data

AppStream 2.0

Provisions and manages all

resources for app streaming

Fully managed

• Apps/data remain on AWS

• Nonpersistent resources

• Encrypted end to end

Secure by default

Scales to any number of users

across the globe

Scale on demand

AppStream 2.0

Pay only for what you use,

when you use it

Pay as you go

Connect to your network, identity,

storage, databases, and servers

Use your existing IT

Each user accesses the same

version of your apps

Simplify app delivery

AppStream 2.0

Manage resources with the AWS

SDK or AWS CloudFormation

Manage through code

Apply your logos or build a fully

immersive experience

Apply your branding

Standard, compute, memory, and

graphics instance types

Flexible hardware types

AppStream 2.0

How AppStream 2.0 works

persistent

Deliver virtualized business and graphics apps

• Security – No data resides on local device

• Management – Apps are centrally managed

• Performance – Apps and data co-located

• Agility – Any computer, scale on demand, global reach

• Example applications – Siemens NX, SAP GUI

Simplify application delivery and extend the workstation to the cloud

Ian Chadwick

Solutions Architect

GE Renewable Energy

- Amazon AppStream 2.0 implementation

400+GW

INSTALLED BASE THE

WORLD’S LARGEST CLEAN

ENERGY FOOTPRINT

25%+

OF WORLD’S HYDRO

INSTALLED BASE

Who are GE Renewable Energy?

42,000+

WIND TURBINES

INSTALLED GLOBALLY

40,000+

GLOBAL EMPLOYEES

80+

COUNTRIES

$15B

REVENUE

90%

OF UTILITIES WORLD-

WIDE EQUIPPED BY

GE GRID SOLUTIONS

>20%

OF GLOBAL RENEWABLE

ENERGY CAPACITY IS

PROVIDED BY GE TURBINES

Hydro

LM Wind Power

Grid

Offshore WindOnshore Wind

Hybrid Solutions

GE Tier 1 company in

2015

Cloud initiative ramp

up in 2018

Acquired 2

additional

businesses

Target of 80% Cloud

adoption by 2021

~1000 desktop

applications

GE Renewable Energy's Cloud Journey

a STARTUP with an ENTERPRISE footprint

• Engineering Management Tool -

Centralized Scalable Solution with no CAPEX

• Started as single deployment but

grew to 9 deployments, with 800

global users & 6 different time

zones

a customized application to manage 40

people working on small generators

• Centralized Reporting

AppStream 2.0 use case

AppStream 2.0 implementation

• Integrated with GE IDP

• Centralized deployment

• Self service

Encapsulating innovation with security and cost

• Continuous rollouts

Managing the scale

• User Profiling (6 time zones)

• AWS Features:

• Auto scaling

Understand usage to manage costs

• Scale out / scale in policies

• Session duration

• Peak times

• Concurrent usage

Software vendors – Deliver online trials, training, and

SaaS

Accelerate application adoption

• Trials, demos – Application trials on demand, with no

installs or special hardware required

• Training workshops – Educate new and existing users on

the latest software version and features

• SaaS - Convert desktop apps to web subscriptions

Jamil El Ghazal

Technology Leader

Multiview Corporation

Clients: Across more than 40

industries, from SMBs to North

American publicly-listed

companies.

Product: Multiview builds

powerful, enterprise accounting

and financial management

software.

Company: Founded in 1990.

30 years of innovation.

Existing product line only

available as an on-premises

Windows-based application

Needed to pivot to become a

cloud-hosted/SaaS business

to adapt to customer demand

Plan was to offer a new

cloud version of Multiview

to complement existing line

Multiview’s transformation to Cloud

Re-build or re-use

Re-build as Web App

Re-use with VDI, RDP, or other

Desktop/App Virtualization Platform

Lots of dev time No coding changes

$$$$ $

Time to market: Years Immediate SaaS solution

Many unknowns Few unknowns

Selecting a Desktop/App Virtualization Platform

Multiview compared features on several different platforms to deliver a Windows desktop

app over the Internet to a browser –

• Video quality

• Mouse and keyboard responsiveness/feel

• Printing from remote to local printers

• Upload/download files from local machine to remote & vice versa

• Cost/licensing model

• User management

• Infrastructure management

• Maintenance

• Scalability

• Security

• Vendor/platform maturity

Multiview chooses AppStream 2.0

Why AppStream 2.0?

AppStream 2.0 delivers on all criteria –

✓ Fluid video streaming

✓ Seamless printing to local printers

✓ Easy file upload/download

✓ No app streaming infrastructure to manage

✓ Pay per concurrent instance per hour

✓ Connects the AWS Environment to Backend Servers, Databases, etc

✓ Awesome support from AWS

Customer 1

Customer 2

Customer 3

VPC

Database

Storage License Server

Amazon AppStream 2.0

VPC

Database

Storage License Server

Amazon AppStream 2.0

VPC

Database

Storage License Server

Amazon AppStream 2.0

AWS Cloud

AppStream 2.0 sessions are launched using the CreateStreamingURL API

Customer data isolation using separate VPCs

Virtualize your labs and classrooms

Provide students the applications they need to learn

• Virtual labs – Convert physical labs to classrooms,

and deliver design and engineering apps on

Chromebooks and Macs

• Online classrooms – Deliver coursework and labs

online, including apps

• Try the AppStream 2.0 demo experience

• Follow the simple getting started guide

• Integrate AppStream with your web portal using

the ISV workshops

• Provide a self-service onboarding portal using the

breadth of AWS services

• Learn to deploy Solidworks, SAP GUI, Mathworks

Matlab, ESRI ArcGIS, Siemens NX

• Learn about best practices and new features—

follow our blog!

Engage a partner

Resources

Visit https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/

2019 Features

• Session scripts – Create and execute scripts at session start to prepare the session, or at session end to clean the session up

• Long running sessions – Increase the maximum time a user can use a streaming session to up to 100 hours

• Multi-touch support – Use multitouch gestures on your desktop applications from your tablet or PC

• Auto app launch for SAML – Automatically launch an application at the start of a SAML-initiated streaming session

• Idle Timeout – A configurable timeout to disconnect users that are idle

• Usage Reports – User session details (date, session length, applications, stack, username) are available in S3 for reporting

• Windows Server 2016/2019 – Use Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 as the host operating system

• Programmatic image creation – On-image builder CLI operations to programmatically manage/create an image

• File system redirection – Users can access their local drives and folders within remote session with the Windows native client

• Private streaming endpoints – Route the streaming traffic through private VPC endpoints enabling DirectConnect or VPN

• IAM Role Assertion – Apply an IAM Role to streaming instances to enable calling AWS services without managing credentials

• FIPS Endpoints – FIPS-enabled endpoints for the commercial and government US Regions

• 4 monitors/4K monitors – Use 4-2K monitors or 2-4K monitors with the Windows native client

• Embeddable AppStream 2.0 – Embed your desktop application in your web portal using a JavaScript object

• Z1D Instances – Launch Z1D instances for running compute and memory intensive workloads such as HPC simulations or batch processing

• Target tracking scaling – Create scaling policy that scale fleet capacity to meet a utilization target

Workshops: ISV (Integrate AS2 with your web portal for free trials, workshops, and SaaS/BYOL enablement), ENT (Build a self-service onboarding portal for your app owners)

Compliance: HIPAA eligible, PCI, SOC1, SOC2, SOC3 compliant

Regions: Seoul (AP-NORTHEAST-2), GovCloud West (US-GOV-WEST-1)

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