Real-Time Data Compression for Oil and Gas Firms

Exponential growth of new and legacy seismic data puts a tremendous strain on the information resources that exploration and production software applications use to interpret and analyze data. Active archives are a business critical platform for accessing legacy data and oil and gas organizations need a solution for long term retention of archive data with exceptionally low price-per-TB, including keeping more backup data on line. In addition, the increasing burden impacts data backup and recovery efficiency, power and cooling requirements and the need for additional physical storage capacity.

IBM Storwize real-time data compression achieves high compression rates for archival data and makes your archive data instantly available to users and applications for increased productivity and reduces your reliance on off-site tape. Keep more data online and accelerate your decision making time.

Here are four ways IBM Storwize appliances help oil and gas firms get access to critical data quickly and cost-effectively:

Compresses data in real time without performance degradation.
Increases your NAS disk capacity by up to 80 percent.
Increases the efficiency of your secondary data operations like backup, replication and deduplication by applying IBM Storwize's patented Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) technology in primary storage operations.
Enhance the ROI of your seismic data investments by redistributing power cycles that IBM Storwize saves to other applications.

While IBM Storwize is hardware-platform agnostic, it has partnered with Landmark to develop PetroVault and PetroStor, custom oil & gas solutions that run on specially configured hardware from both EMC and NetApp respectively.

Sample Storwize compression rates from common oil & gas filetypes – Source: Landmark

Learn more about PetroStor solution, or watch one of the IBM Storwize videos to get details about how real-time data compression optimizes storage without compromising on performance.