The Oil and Gas industry today faces many challenges. Among the most critical of those challenges is how to manage the onslaught of exponential data growth rates. As users create, gather and
move various data assets though the exploration and production life‐cycle, multiple applications are used to access, process, manipulate and output the data. For the Oil and Gas industry, today’s
storage infrastructures must be configured and tiered appropriately to enable an efficient workflow that allows timely, cost-effective access to data. They must also provide scalability as needed, as
well as performance and transparency for end users. The best technology platforms to accomplish this today are a combination of disk, tape and in some cases, flash with intelligent file system
applications on the front end. Current tape technologies combined with disk technologies, and eventually flash technologies in a strategically organized implementation can address the current and
future challenges and objectives of oil and gas storage administrators, including performance, compliance, security, cost, energy consumption, asset preservation, and data protection
