Atempo HPC Workflows for Energy Sector Use Cases

By Sarah Mason, director, marketing and partnerships, Americas, Atempo, Inc.

Atempo SAS has been working with customers in the energy sector for 30 years.

It understands complex data flows. It can handle critical needs; protecting, preserving, securing and future-proofing all datasets.

Miria, the company’s data management solution, enables customers to ‘Backup, Archive, Migrate, Move and Analyze’ their data all-in-one single user interface.

Some examples of how we are helping clients in the energy sector:

Use Case: Archiving from multiple NAS to cloud
The customer had 2 critical needs to address:

• Long-term preservation of their data and,
• Legal requirement to maintain it securely and accessibly. 

The firm’s customers are leveraging Miria’s web interface to select their compute projects and results, and transfer them securely to the archive. This process allows them to add metadata to simplify search and retrieval of their project in the future.

By law they are required to keep the data, unchanged for 50 years or more. Miria is configured to use immutable cloud storage as the archive, meaning the data is written once and cannot be changed after using the WORM technique.

This specific customer’s data is expensive to produce but critically important because analyzing it allows for better decision making for future growth, optimization and differentiation.

Use Case: Cloud migration from multiple different sources
Unforeseen circumstances forced customer to make an immediate, abrupt change to their data management process.

Critically, they needed to:

• Migrate from multiple, shared sources quickly
• Zero disruption to their production workflow 

The data stored on their storage arrays includes a mix of geological exploratory data, drilling data, and underground intelligence. This information is stored across dozens of shares and exports that all need to be swiftly migrated with associated user rights to the new storage location.

The company stepped in migrated their data from 5 different storage arrays including, Dell EMC Isilon and others to Microsoft Azure. Their IT and production teams were able to continue working without interruption.

Resources:
Miria Analytics, Backup, Migration and more    
Hybrid and Multi-cloud Storage: Opportunities and risks (registration required)