The Ukrainian oil and gas industry now has certain systemic problems that reduce its efficiency. In the field of IT, these are outdated equipment, insufficient funding for powerful resources, and the riskiness of running an oil and gas business. Let's see how cloud technologies can help here.
Features and needs of the oil and gas industry
The oil and gas complex (OGK) of Ukraine is becoming more and more technological: the newest developments are replacing simple mechanisms. For example, manual petrol stations have evolved into systems that require minimal human intervention, and all work is automated.
In addition, oil and gas enterprises, even the smallest ones, are businesses that often involve risks. Firstly, the products themselves are highly valued and are of great importance for the economy and the entire state as a whole. Therefore, the competition in the field is extremely high. Secondly, storing important data (databases, document archives, accounting software, specialized applications, etc.) on office servers is not a very secure solution. Unauthorized persons or intruders can gain access to servers and all data is extremely difficult to recover.
Since CDD involves specialized software, it requires powerful IT resources that need to scale from time to time. Physical resources, of course, can also be scaled, but this is an additional cost of finance and time.
An equally important need for the industry is mobility. For example, the emergence of the newest mobile laboratories for the study of the quality of petroleum products has led to the need to organize the work differently. It is important that you do not carry additional IT equipment with you to store the collected data. And also - to share data with all employees in a single space without time delays.
In addition, the entire oil and gas industry is based on the collection and processing of large amounts of information. Such data include:
monitoring of oil and gas wells, pipeline and gas compressor stations;
data collection and control over installations;
archiving and storing previous indicators;
attraction of process automation services, analytics systems and the like.
So what are the main IT challenges facing the oil and gas industry?
Provide efficient and stable management of oil and gas equipment from anywhere in the world.
Reduce IT equipment costs.
Establish management and automation processes for oil and gas enterprises.
Provide continuous communication between all parts of the industry.
How clouds solve the challenges of the oil and gas industry
Cloud technology simplifies and improves the operations of oil and gas companies of all sizes. They solve several problems at the same time and provide a number of advantages:
1. Provide reliable and secure data storage
You can transfer to the cloud both the entire IT infrastructure of the company, as well as individual applications or specialized programs, for example, a CRM or ERP system, accounting, telephony, and the like. All data is located outside the office or even the country, so it is protected from access by intruders and physical loss.
2. Save money on IT equipment and maintenance
Even the smallest oil and gas enterprises need powerful equipment to ensure reliable operation. The more a company is, the more resources it needs. With clouds, you save money to buy, maintain, and replace equipment. And also - you pay only for those resources that you really use.
3. Provide mobility and access to data 24/7 from anywhere in the world
Working in the clouds is convenient for everyone in the enterprise-supplier-customer chain. And not only because the office lacks bulky and noisy servers.
Clouds are a high level of service availability, the ability to work from any corner of the world and instantly track all changes in workspaces. In addition, thanks to the clouds, there is constant communication between employees, and each of them quickly receives information about joint processes.
To access the clouds, you only need the Internet. You can connect to remote desktop even from your phone and stay in control of your workflow at any time.
4. Allows you to scale IT resources to fit your needs
From time to time it becomes necessary to change the amount of resources. Physical servers, of course, can be scaled, but you need to spend time and money on new equipment every time. And vice versa, if some of the resources are not used, the hardware will be idle unnecessarily.
Scaling any resources in the clouds is easy: you just need to contact our technical support, and in a few minutes you will receive a new service configuration.
5. Provide additional protection for your data (snapshots and btcaps)
To achieve even more reliable data storage, snapshots (system snapshots) and the ability to make backups (backups) will help : IT description
snapshots are disk images of your virtual machine. They help return the system to the state it was in when the snapshot was taken. The cost of our two virtual servers TuchaFlex + and TuchaBit already includes the cost of snapshots, so we are guaranteed to save the last two snapshots of the system;
backups - backup copies of your data, provides the TuchaBackup service and stores them in reliable data centers outside Ukraine.
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