NetApp energised by new contract win

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 14:04

IT Industry - Deals

According to Thomas Durea, the system offers “superior performance and scalability and has been proven to have a lower total cost of ownership.”  The consultancy said that Karoon had doubled its networked storage capacity by adding two trays of disks with 14 disks in each tray at 300GB per disk.

Thomas Durea says NetApp and Karoon’s systems integrators worked in tandem over a four month period to make sure of a seamless migration and revamp of Karoon Gas’s storage infrastructure.

“The NetApp FAS3020 storage system has enabled Karoon Gas to create a storage infrastructure in which data protection and availability is guaranteed. The solution also provides Karoon Gas the ability to respond quickly to changes in the business environment with non disruptive scaling and flexible allocation.”

Jim Boyd, of Karoon Gas, says, “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.

“Our storage requirements were growing as we increased the amount of data we were 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.”

Karoon’s Jim Boyd Boyd says the company was presented with three different vendor storage solutions, “but we decided on NetApp because its solutions have been designed to accelerate our businesses performance, and we have evaluated that it will be more cost efficient.

Boyd said that the most immediate benefit from partnering with NetApp is that “the solution we implemented has provided us with secure, high-quality, and faster data retrieval. The NetApp FAS3020 has proven itself to be extremely reliable.”