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Storage:
NuTec Energy Selects Sistina
Storage Infrastructure Software
Sistina Software, a premier storage infrastructure software company
delivering
data-sharing solutions, announced that NuTec Energy Services, a premier
provider of seismic imaging services to the oil and gas industry and one of
the world's largest commercial supercomputing entities, has migrated to a
Linux-based storage infrastructure -- a move made possible by Sistina GFS, a
highly scalable enterprise-class cluster file system on Linux. NuTec Energy's
embrace of Linux clusters gives the company increased computing horsepower at
a fraction of the cost of its former, proprietary high-performance computing
systems.
To increase processing speeds of the massive data sets involved in oil
exploration while maintaining simple management and robust data protection,
NuTec Energy selected Sistina GFS for use in its production environment. NuTec
Energy required a cluster file system that could deliver high scalability,
high availability and superior performance to handle vast amounts of seismic
information for its customers. The company's move to a clustered,
heterogeneous environment, which took just six weeks to complete and resulted
in an 84 percent savings for the company in hardware costs alone, also
leveraged blade-based computing with Sistina GFS, simplifying management of
its blade-server deployment.
"Deciding which hardware components to migrate to was relatively easy, but
we
had to figure out how we'd manage the data and add more nodes without
interrupting daily business operations and customer service," said Dr. Michael
S. Keehan, president of NuTec Energy Services. "We evaluated several cluster
file systems and found that Linux clusters running Sistina GFS would provide
the best price/performance ratio and scale on demand, without complicating
data management. Thanks to Sistina's leading-edge clustering technology, we've
met internal productivity and cost savings goals, while giving our customers
improved speed of data processing."
Due to the performance, scalability and affordability of the Linux
operating
system, NuTec Energy is moving toward this single OS as a common platform to
support multi-vendor, heterogeneous solutions to ease administration and
centralize management within the data center. Combining this strategy with
Sistina GFS allows companies to consolidate existing server and storage
resources into a single management domain, linking thousands of diverse data
storage repositories into a massively scalable, secure and stable SAN. This
improves availability, performance and ease of management in data center
server environments, while simultaneously minimizing administration costs.
"Many companies, such as NuTec, have a need to continually crunch exploding
amounts of data while supporting clusters upwards of 200+ nodes," said Joaquin
Ruiz, Sistina's vice president of marketing and product management.
"Intel-based servers, Linux, and SAN technologies glued together by proven
data-sharing software such as Sistina GFS is a powerful combination for
enterprises challenged to manage increasing amounts of data and maximize
existing assets."
Next week at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., NuTec Energy will
be
presenting a case study on its Linux SAN implementation at 3:45-4:15 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time, Oct. 29 in the Segura conference room, 1 & 2. NuTec's
case study titled "Super Scalalable SANs: Using Intel, Linux, Fibre Channel
and Ethernet Storage Technologies to Build out a High-Performance, Single
Image Environment" will explain how innovative networking tools and
technologies, such as Sistina GFS, are being deployed in enterprise data
centers today. Sistina will also be exhibiting at Storage Networking World
(Booth PP26), scheduled to take place from Oct. 27 - 30.
Recognized as the de facto cluster file system on Linux, Sistina GFS is a
highly stable solution for enterprise users requiring reliable access to data.
In addition to NuTec Energy, Sistina GFS technology is in use at multiple
financial, telecommunications, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide,
to consolidate existing server and storage resources into a single management
domain, essentially serving as the "central nervous system" in a SAN.
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