The NetApp GeoFrame enhanced backup and recovery solution significantly improves protection of valuable GeoFrame data by dramatically increasing backup and recovery speed, and streamlining backup and recovery processes. This complete and cost-effective solution can greatly enhance the productivity of geoscientists and increase their ability to make time-critical decisions.
Customer challenges
Number of projects is increasing
Data sets expanding at an accelerating pace
Backups and restores are consuming more time, hampering user productivity, and affecting critical deadlines
Increasing costs
Market drivers
Need access to past intelligence and knowledge
Larger data sets and new, more demanding workflows
Tape decay; re-mastering and transcription costs are increasing
Post-disaster operations
Key message
Dramatically faster backups and reduced capacity requirements
Create multiple full backups throughout the day
Quickly determine which recovery point contains the needed data and save valuable time
Streamlined backup and recovery processes ensure user productivity while reducing costs
Product differentiators
NetApp Data ONTAP feature set was specifically designed for high-volume, high-performance data environments like GeoFrame
Unmatched data protection and manageability that can help customers reduce overhead and eliminate disruptions
Recovery points for GeoFrame data are created instantly using NetApp Snapshot technology
Multiple options to recover allow users to inspect a GeoFrame project prior to a restore
Space efficient backups
Retain recovery points for weeks, months, even years, reducing dependency on tape
Easy to implement and maintain
NetApp Solution Advantages
Take consistent point-in-time copies of all GeoFrame and Oracle data in minutes or even seconds
Perform multiple daily backups as needed, with no performance impact
Maintain online archive of backups on secondary storage, minimising or eliminating tape
Schedule and automate backup processes for enhanced productivity
No-cost deduplication to enable higher storage utilisation
The solution
Required components:
• NetApp FAS system with Data ONTAP
• NetApp V-series supported
• NFS protocols
• NetApp Deduplication for FAS
• SnapManager for Oracle
Optional components:
• NetApp NearStore for secondary storage
• SnapVault for automated D2D backup
SIS Professional Services
• Site and Workflow Assessment, Integration
Customer proof
Apache Corporation:
Reduced recovery time from days to hours
Leading O&G Company:
Backup < 5 minutes instead of 8 hours, with no disruption or performance impact
Twofold longer retention on disk enabled, avoiding $11.5 million costs
Able to protect 100% of the data
More than 350 IT staff hours a year reclaimed for more valuable projects
Noble Energy:
Reduced restore time by 97%
Target customer profile
Major integrated oil and gas corporations, national oil and gas, independents and oil and gas services companies; upstream organisations with responsibility for business critical E&P applications and user data managed via GeoFrame; dedicated backup and recovery IT staff;and large physical tape environments
Pain points include:
*Inability to back up data nightly within the backup window
*Inability to recover data fast enough to avoid impact on project timelines
*Lost or damaged tapes or media and/or inability to track the location of tapes or media
