Largest Energy Company in the Southern Hemisphere experiences cloud economics with enterprise-class performance from SimpliVity’s hyperconverged solution

The fourth largest Oil and Gas Company in the world as well as integrated energy company with a presence in 29 countries was faced with a major problem: their legacy infrastructure could no longer service all their mission-critical applications. Applications such as Microsoft SQL server, Remote Desktop servers, applications to monitor buoys and wave patterns, and other third-party applications were not running in an optimized or secure state. For disaster recovery, the company used tape backup which was extremely slow and provided no solution for off-site backups for their ships, 200 miles off-shore. Also the existing infrastructure was taking up too much space in the limited room onboard the ships. This Oil and Gas Company sought a technology refresh and a solution that could deliver best-in-class DR capabilities. The Oil and Gas Company had been using six HP servers, NetApp storage, and VSAT connectivity to host ten VMware VMs. The infrastructure was consuming two full racks on the resource-constrained Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) ship where power, space, and cooling were premiums. This design had been in place for six years. Not only was the rigid, legacy infrastructure inefficient, the architecture also lacked the capabilities and agility needed to support new application requirements their business demanded.

The customer is the fourth largest Oil and Gas Company in the world, as well as an integrated energy company with a presence in 29 countries. They are involved in oil and renewable energy acquisition and have locations globally. The company uses a variety of applications, including Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Remote Desktop, and mission-critical applications to monitor buoys and wave patterns, as well as other client-server and third-party applications. The company operates on ships located 200 miles off-shore and has a central data center in Texas. The company was facing challenges with their legacy infrastructure, which was taking up too much space, consuming too much power, and not providing an efficient solution for off-site backups. They were seeking a technology refresh and a solution that could deliver best-in-class disaster recovery capabilities.