When using a computer workstation to find potential oil wells, more than the data is seismic. So is the reaction when its lost.
Thats why Houston Energys network administrator Paul Davis knew his NAS system had to be reliable. A geoscientist who just lost data that could lead to an oil well is not a happy prospector.
A guy might be prospecting in GeoFrame for months, and he might find data that leads to an oil well. If he loses that, he loses a lot of work, not to mention a prospect, Davis says. That makes a geoscientist real unhappy. Theres the potential for millions of dollars.
Davis kept that in mind when building his new NAS this year. He was unhappy with his previous system from Procom Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: PRCME) because of frequent problems and poor support, and his network needed a great deal of extra space after purchasing millions of dollars' worth of oil prospecting data.
Davis settled on an EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) Celerra NAS, attracted by its multiple disk technology, which let him mix Fibre Channel drives for resource-intensive data with ATA drives for the rest. He says the offerings from Network Appliance Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP), Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), and smaller companies didn't offer the same combination.
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