Siemens PLM Software Ltd : DFS Exploited

Siemens PLM Software provides Product Lifecycle Management software. As a

company it has a huge development team spread around the globe that develops

various PLM products. Most of the software being developed involves the

participation of more than 2-5 development offices spread geographically within

a country or sites between countries. Prior to in-house built DFS (Distributed

File System), software distribution across sites was a big challenge, as all

sites had non uniform, & non-integrated methods of data & software distribution

primarily using ancient methods of xcopy, robocopy etc. This implementation has

provided extreme flexibility in managing all shared data repositories with

extended uptime, inspite of sudden failures or problems. DFS is an enhancement

to the earlier File Replication Service (FRS) offered by Windows. It helps in

provisioning locally or remotely stored data to clients with unique namespace

conventions through which data can be accessed with common access information

anywhere irrespective of from where the data is being requested.