White Papers

Data managers in information-intensive scientific industries such as petroleum and gas exploration and production (E&P) understand the challenges that their rapidly growing datastores pose. Poor access to the high-quality, complete data they need to make informed decisions can cost millions of dollars. Many E&P geoscientists spend far too much of their time identifying, locating, and obtaining data they need for their mission-critical analyses. This paper examines these challenges and then explores technology advances that now enable disk-based archiving to complement tape-based solutions. In doing so it helps address these challenges. The paper then examines the range of solutions from NetApp and Interica that enable E&P companies to leverage these advances. Finally, it summarizes the potential benefits of this approach.

Unstable oil prices and a global economic downturn place exploration and production (E&P) asset teams under pressure to more precisely characterize prospects and existing dormant assets. At the same time, data managers look to stretch shrinking information technology budgets. These challenges are particularly acute for development of unconventional resources, which entail large risks and require specialized engineering and seismic interpretation techniques. By optimizing information resources, E&P managers can improve decision-making, and companies can begin extracting more efficiently. IHS offers a fully integrated E&P software solution. The integrated workflow operates in a Windows® environment, enhancing interpreter productivity and enabling analysis by a wide range of project participants—anytime and anywhere. In this way, IHS offers advanced science that is easy to use while pioneering advanced techniques for unconventional-resource interpretation, such as prestack/AVO and microseismic analyses. NetApp® data management and storage solutions complement IHS’s solutions by providing an infrastructure that consolidates data across the enterprise and facilitates collaboration. At the same time, NetApp’s solutions improve storage efficiency, enable efficient data backup and recovery anywhere, and enhance performance in a scalable platform.

With the growing volumes of rich sensor data and imagery used today to derive meaningful intelligence, government agencies need to address the challenges posed by these big datasets. NetApp provides a scalable, unified single pool of storage to better handle your processing and analysis of data to drive actionable intelligence in the most demanding environments on earth.

With the growing volumes of rich sensor data and imagery used today to derive meaningful intelligence, government agencies need to address the challenges posed by these big datasets. NetApp provides a scalable, unified single pool of storage to better handle your processing and analysis of data to drive actionable intelligence in the most demanding environments on earth.

The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) addresses decades of redundant IT investments that have resulted in costly & inefficient IT infrastructure. This paper highlights NetApp's data center consolidation and cloud computing solutions and how they deliver significant cost, energy and performance benefits.

The Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Program (previously called Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Program) is a joint effort between Microsoft and its partner original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) like Cisco to help organizations quickly develop and implement private clouds while reducing both the cost and the risk. It provides a reference architecture that combines Microsoft software, consolidated guidance, and validated configurations with NetApp and Cisco partner technology, such as computing power, network and storage architectures, and value-added software components. Each Microsoft Cloud Fast Track solution is an integrated solution from Microsoft and its OEM partner. This version of the document augments the Microsoft-specific document and includes a description of the full solution. It provides an overview of NetApp, Cisco, and Microsoft guiding principles and design criteria for this solution and describes how this Hyper-V technology cloud solution conforms to these principles.

The market for cloud-based data protection presents an opportunity for you to quickly grow revenue and increase profitability with the right supporting infrastructure. The data protection solution from Asigra and NetApp gives you the ability to minimize capital expenditure and operating costs per customer while providing an excellent customer experience. This paper describes the data protection as a service joint solution and shows how we can work together to help you increase your revenue for higher profitability.

This white paper is one in a series about the NetApp® private cloud solution. For more information about NetApp overall private cloud architecture, see RA-0008: Microsoft Private Clouds and NetApp Reference Architecture.As cloud-style architecture is becoming increasingly common, IT organizations are seeking to offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS) within their organizations. This document provides a blueprint for private IaaS implementations on the Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and System Center platform. The intended audience for this document is customer and partner architects seeking to design private cloud implementations on NetApp platform.

With a shared IT infrastructure built on a NetApp storage foundation, Be The Match is leveraging technology to give patients a second chance at life. The efficiency and flexibility of their NetApp infrastructure allows them to process more data faster, which leads to more transplants and saves more lives. Their NetApp based private cloud enables them to share lifesaving resources and capabilities with partner affiliates around the world.