Cadenus relies on North America. The Augsburg-based IT company has opened a new server location in Canada. What does Cadenus expect from the new investment.
Cadenus GmbH from Augsburg is expanding the server infrastructure for digital 3D CAD and BIM product catalog to provide its IT services worldwide. The server space in Canada, now in operation, aims to increase the user-friendliness of hosted customer websites and the provided download portraits. During this, latency was re-optimized and bandwidth expanded, the Augsburg company announced. For US, Canadian and South American customers in particular, it should be noticeable through performance enhancements when creating 3D previews of configured components. In addition, CAD and BIM products provided in the Caden area seek to reduce the download time of data.
Cadenus uses “private cloud”
In a press release, Cadence described server infrastructure in Canada as “quickly scalable and, above all, highly reliable”. Additional security is also achieved by mirroring the company’s own data centers, to protect users from a single data center failure. “When choosing the North American location for our new data center, a high level of data security and the use of state-of-the-art technology and hardware to operate a” private cloud “was important to us,” Ralph Hampers, at Cadenus GmbH Director of IT. “Thanks to our experience in operating an international hosting infrastructure and great teamwork, we were able to quickly and securely add new locations to our existing networks. Thanks to good scaling options, we can respond very quickly to customer needs and any performance bottlenecks. “
This is how CTO Doug Kornfels assesses the situation
Also Doug Cornfell, CTO of North American subsidiary Cadence Part Solutions, LLC. The new server sees this advantage in space: “We know that faster download speeds and security are important to our customers and their end users.” , At the same time, protection to preserve their intellectual property. “
More than 600 million downloads
According to the company, thousands of digital product catalogs for technical components are hosted from Cadence via the server infrastructure. The 3D CAD model is made available around the clock as a digital twin for worldwide download, using a specific search engine and a specialized download platform as well as individual product catalogs from component manufacturers. In 2020, 666 million downloads were made by engineers, designers, planners and architects. In August 2020 the company moved to the Augsburg Innovation Center.
