Seismic Processing Company Deploys sTec Enterprise SSDs

sTec, Inc.announced that GeoEnergy, Inc. has deployed
sTec enterprise SSDs in its data center, enhancing GeoEnergy’s workload
performance by a factor of 10.

GeoEnergy’s role in oil and gas exploration consists of processing and
analyzing large data sets from seismic surveys, which can be as large as tens
of terabytes. By replacing its existing SSDs used in its seismic data server with
sTec enterprise SSDs, GeoEnergy was able to meet the performance and durability
demands of its I/O-intensive applications.

Earlier this month, sTec announced that its
range of solid-state solutions are now available to enterprise customers
through the company’s new direct sales and global channel programs, expanding reach into new vertical markets. The vertical markets now benefiting
from this more-direct channel include oil and gas, as well as financial
services, government, content and cloud, and telecommunications.

Typical in the oil and gas industry, GeoEnergy faces
huge computational and storage resource demands driven by seismic processing.
After doubling its computing capacity in a matter of months, it needed
to scale its I/O performance to meet even more demanding workloads. The company
attempted to improve its application performance by using consumer-grade SSDs,
but those failed after only six months, and risked impacting project deadlines.
GeoEnergy then replaced the drives with sTec enterprise SSDs.

"There are many areas where you can
cut corners to maximize value, but going with consumer SSDs can be a costly
decision when they fail," said Shawn Stephens, senior IT administrator
for GeoEnergy. "sTec SSDs are not
just faster, they’re also more durable. Greater predictability and performance
allows us to pursue more and larger projects with the confidence that we can
deliver on tight deadlines."

sTec’s CellCare technology enables SSDs to maintain performance over time – in contrast to consumer SSDs, which degrade over time.
Due in part to this performance-maintaining feature, GeoEnergy turned to sTec
for its increased processing capacity to handle ever-growing data sets.

"sTec’s
solid-state storage solutions are specifically designed for high-speed,
high-volume I/O environments and heavy-load applications such as GeoEnergy’s seismic
processing," said Ali Zadeh, corporate SVP and CMO, and GM of the systems
and software group, sTec. "With the
reliability of enterprise SSDs in its data center, we fully expect GeoEnergy to
continue to grow its business."