Petroleum Exploration Company Achieves Business Growth Goals through Consolidated IP SAN Solution
Intransa Improved Application Performance and System Availability in the Field Streamlining Business Process Along the Way
SAN JOSE, California — August 02, 2006
Intransa, the global innovator of network-centric, IP storage solutions, today announced that Cypress E&P Corporation, a privately held petroleum exploration company, has selected Intransa's
According to Eric Bass, information technologist for Cypress, the company needed to replace its inflexible Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) network to support the 400 percent increase of seismic, geologic, and topographic data that would be generated by its geo-science team in the both field and at the operations office in Houston, Texas, as well as the corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas. The Intransa storage system gave engineers and drillers in the field seamless access to the geo-data projects and allowed them to collaborate in real time with other team members. The availability and reliability of these systems streamlined important business processes and has enabled the company to reach and sustain its growth goals.
“The Intransa system leveraged our existing IP network and gave us the storage performance, accessibility, and scalability we needed to meet our business goals,” Bass said. “Now our geo-science team has access to all available data no matter where they are on the network, and as administrator I can easily add, subtract, or reconfigure capacity depending on their needs.”
Initially, Cypress deployed an Intransa IP5500 SAN with dual active/active storage controllers and five disk enclosures bringing the company's total storage capacity to 20 TB. Bass was able to set up and configure the network within a day and now uses Intransa's management solution to centrally monitor the systems and provision capacity as needed. Pleased with both the performance and ease of administration, Bass decided in mid 2006 to recommend an upgrade to the flagship IP7500 system in anticipation of significant data acquisition in the second half of 2006. The Cypress SAN now consists of a fully redundant “no single point of failure” network rack outfitted with four storage controllers and six disk enclosures providing a total of 26.4 TB. As long as they are connected to Cypress's IP network, employees will have access to the centrally-stored data.
“Cypress geo-science teams out in the field are now able to collaborate and share data across the network and business applications thanks to its new IP SAN,” said Doug Rainbolt, vice-president of marketing, Intransa. “Intransa was able to give Cypress the IT tools to work more efficiently and accomplish its ambitious business goals.”
The Intransa IP7500 storage system is engineered to run on Cypress's existing IP network and provide high availability for Cypress‘ mission-critical applications such as its geo-science applications - Seismic Micro-Technology KINGDOM, Landmark Geographix Discover, Hampson-Russell HRS, and Geomodeling VisualVoxAT - as well as the company's email, file storage and financial systems.
About Intransa
Intransa, Inc. is the leading innovator of shared, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions for video and IT storage. Based in San Jose, CA, Intransa offers scalable, high performance security-grade storage with outstanding availability and price/performance, with built in Set-and-Forget Management for proven ease of use.
Beginning as a 3Com spin-off, Intransa has been shipping shared IP network storage solutions since 2003. Intransa IP storage is available worldwide through authorized StorPartner security and systems integrators. Intransa is an Axis Communications Applications Development Partner, Cisco Ecosystem Provider, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and VMware Technology Alliance Partner along with many other industry partnerships through our StorAlliance Technology Partner program.
For more information about Intransa and our industry-leading sharable, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions, to locate a StorPartner security and systems integrator, or to join the StorAlliance Technology Partner program, please visit us at www.intransa.com.
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