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Houston Energy Gushes About NAS: Page 2 of 2

“The multiple disk technology gives you an advantage because you don’t have to pay for the speed of Fibre Channel when you don’t need it,” he says. “If you don’t need the speed of Fibre Channel, why incur the costs of Fibre Channel?”

Houston Energy’s NAS consists of EMC Celerra NS600 with four Windows servers, four UNIX servers, and an Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) database serving the Schlumberger Ltd. GeoFrame suite of scientific applications. The GeoFrame suite is an integrated reservoir characterization system that delivers tools to increase the productivity and efficiency of geophysical interpretation processes. The NAS supports 26 geoscientists running GeoFrame on Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) Ultra workstations. Houston Energy uses Spectra Logic Corp. Bullfrog for its offsite tape library.

“We’ve been running it a little over a month now, and we’ve not lost anything,” he says.

— Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch