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Oil and Gas Exploration

High-speed, scalable storage for skyrocketing seismic and operational data—without the enterprise price tag. Designed to exceed the extreme data demands of oil and gas, ScoutAM ensures seamless access, long-term retention, and the lowest cost per petabyte at scale.

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Control Storage Costs. Accelerate Exploration.

In today’s oil and gas industry, exploration workflows generate unprecedented volumes of data. Seismic imaging, reservoir simulations, and real-time sensor data collection push storage systems to their limits. To remain competitive, companies must efficiently and cost-effectively manage this ever-expanding data while ensuring accessibility for critical decision-making.

Oil and gas exploration faces unique challenges with data scale, storage costs, and retrieval performance, compounded by the complexity of legacy systems and vendor lock-in. Versity ScoutAM addresses these issues head-on by seamlessly integrating with modern workflows. It reduces costs and improves efficiency without the limitations of proprietary systems, allowing organizations to future-proof their data management strategy.

Solving the Biggest Data Challenges in Oil & Gas

Managing Massive and Diverse Datasets

Seismic surveys, sensors, reservoir simulations, and drilling equipment generate petabytes of data that must be efficiently stored, processed, and analyzed. ScoutAM streamlines the management of these large, diverse datasets, ensuring fast retrieval and seamless integration across various formats and existing infrastructure.

Balance Cost and Performance

Oil and gas operations rely on high-performance computing and real-time analytics, making efficient data movement essential. ScoutAM automates data placement across storage tiers, balancing cost and performance by optimizing data across high-speed storage, tape, and cloud.

Data Quality and Consistency

Oil and gas operations produce diverse data in formats such as LAS, WITSML, and PODS. ScoutAM ensures the accurate and consistent management of these datasets, maintaining data integrity and ensuring reliable decision-making across various systems.

Long-Term
Data Retention

Regulatory requirements demand decades-long data preservation, but maintaining accessibility can be costly and complex. ScoutAM’s policy-driven archiving and retrieval ensure compliance while minimizing storage expenses.

Key Benefits

Unmatched Scalability & Cost Efficiency

ScoutAM enables organizations to manage petabytes to exabytes of exploration data at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage. By tiering data across object storage, tape, and cloud, companies can significantly reduce costs while maintaining seamless access.

Seamless Data Management & Automation

ScoutAM optimizes storage with intelligent data placement, automatically moving data to the most cost-effective storage tier while ensuring fast access to frequently used datasets. Its policy-driven archiving allows organizations to customize data retention, replication, and lifecycle management, ensuring compliance while keeping storage costs under control.

Optimized for High-Performance Workloads

ScoutAM is designed to support high-speed data ingestion, making it easy to handle large-scale data transfers from seismic and exploration workflows. With seamless access via S3 and POSIX, ScoutAM ensures smooth integration with existing systems, allowing oil and gas companies to use industry-standard tools for storage management.

Ultimate Disaster Recovery

With robust error handling and recovery mechanisms, ScoutAM ensures data integrity and availability even in the face of hardware failures or other issues. Its high-availability architecture provides continuous operation and minimal downtime, crucial for mission-critical HPC applications.

Comprehensive and Personalized Support

ScoutAM is backed by comprehensive, personalized support tailored to mission-critical media operations. Users benefit from phenomenal direct access to knowledgeable support teams and a responsive approach to feature requests, ensuring the system evolves with their needs. Versity’s favorable unlimited capacity licensing and zero lock-in model further reduce operational risk and cost. With seamless integration into existing workflows and compatibility with tools like Globus, S3, NFS, and Samba, ScoutAM delivers robust, user-friendly access backed by a support experience media organizations can rely on.

Modern Software and Efficient Delivery Model

ScoutAM is designed to be simple to use and easy to manage. With an intuitive interface and automated workflows, ScoutAM reduces the need for extensive administrative resources, freeing up time and reducing operational costs. Its modern software and delivery model ensure that companies can leverage the latest advancements in data management without the complexity of traditional systems, enabling greater efficiency and a more agile approach to data storage.

Open Architecture for Seamless Integration

ScoutAM’s open-source format and hardware-agnostic design provide unparalleled flexibility, eliminating the complexity of legacy systems and proprietary lock-in. It is cloud-vendor and media-agnostic, allowing oil and gas companies to integrate with a wide variety of platforms and tools without being tied to a single vendor or hardware ecosystem. This open architecture, combined with friendly and responsive support, makes ScoutAM the ideal choice for companies looking to modernize their operations without sacrificing compatibility, flexibility, or facing outdated support models.

Optimized for Large-Scale Seismic Data

Seismic exploration produces massive, high-resolution datasets that demand efficient storage, fast processing, and seamless retrieval. ScoutAM is designed to handle large-scale seismic data with high-performance ingest, intelligent tiering, and scalable storage that supports petabyte- and exabyte-sized workloads. With S3 and POSIX compatibility, it makes it easy to integrate into existing seismic processing workflows, ensuring quick access to critical data while keeping long-term storage costs low.

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ScoutAM delivers cost-efficient storage without compromising performance, allowing oil and gas organizations to store and manage vast datasets affordably. Its scalable architecture supports seamless expansion to exabyte-scale capacity, ensuring storage grows effortlessly alongside data demands. With automated lifecycle management, organizations can enforce compliance policies while optimizing storage efficiency. 

Fast data ingestion and retrieval keep exploration and analytical workflows running smoothly, providing quick access to critical datasets. Additionally, broad protocol support, including S3 object storage and POSIX compatibility, ensures seamless integration with existing infrastructure and applications.

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See how ScoutAM can reduce costs, streamline workflows, and ensure long-term access to critical exploration data.

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