NetApp energised by new contract win

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:04

IT Industry - Deals

Storage management vendor, NetApp, has inked a contract with Australian listed oil and gas exploration company, Karoon Gas, to deploy new storage infrastructure.

Karoon says it required an infrastructure upgrade due to loss of productivity caused by its peer-to-peer network with 1TB Dell blade producing a level of latency when users attempted to access the 2D and 3D seismic data sets, which it says are typically large files averaging from 50GB to 100GB each.

Karoon’s Jim Boyd says “this latency was causing a loss of productivity to those users who were accessing those data sets from different locations and, as such, was unacceptable to Karoon Gas, which requires fast access to the data at all times.

“Our existing infrastructure was not serving the growth in the exploration data that we were capturing for our projects. It was simply not doing the job that an exploration company wants.”

According to Boyd, the company’s storage requirements were growing as it increased the amount of data it was capturing to explore potential oil and gas reserves.

“As such, we needed a reliable, scalable, and high-quality storage infrastructure that would support not only our growing team of employees but also the amount of data that needed to be captured and accessed.”

Thomas Durea Consulting, a NetApp gold partner based in Victoria, said that to meet its growing need for storage  capacity that can retrieve data at high speeds, Karoon had installed the NetApp FAS3020 storage system, an enterprise-level, mission-critical data management platform, which it says is simple to manage and suitable for both SAN and NAS environments.
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