CASE STUDY

SoftNAS for high-performance geoscience workloads

Halliburton chooses Buurst’s SoftNAS for high-performance geoscience workloads

How oil giant Halliburton runs the most demanding geoscience workloads in the cloud

Challenge

Halliburton DecisionSpace® 365 is a graphics-intensive and high-performance workload for geoscience processing and simulation. Geoscience processing requires massive amounts of storage optimized for performance, costs, and flexibility across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Windows, and Linux.

Why SoftNAS for high-performance geoscience workloads

Buurst SoftNAS delivers performance, cost control, and flexibility to meet the Halliburton DecisionSpace® 365 cloud application’s needs.

 

  • Cloud storage with on-premises performance with the highest throughput, IOPS, and lowest latency.
  • Manage Petabytes of cloud storage while driving down the cost up to 80% with deduplication, compression, and tiering.
  • Flexibility to deploy across different cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, with native support for Windows and Linux.

Results

Halliburton DecisionSpace® 365 delivers real-time computing solutions without customers’ need to purchase expensive on-premises high-performance computing.

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“Old problems that were blockers before suddenly become obsolete as new capabilities emerge. Partnerships like the one we have with Buurst are really critical to our ability to leverage new capabilities.”

Andy Anglin, Director Cloud Technologies, Halliburton