Oil and Gas Industry Solution Brief

Streamline the move to virtualization with scalable converged infrastructure Unstable economic conditions worldwide coupled with volatile commodity prices pressuring companies in the energy sector to more precisely understand their existing and prospective assets. As a result, IT infrastructure has come under tremendous pressure due to increased amount of data generated, new interpretation, visualization, and modeling applications, and by new access methods such as virtual desktops. By optimizing IT infrastructure and adopting virtualization, IT can enable business managers to improve decision making and allow for faster, more efficient drilling and pumping. Nutanix is the ideal virtualization IT infrastructure for virtualized upstream and downstream applications in the Oil and Gas industry, and alleviates data and application bottlenecks at much lower costs and space than traditional heterogeneous IT infrastructure. Using a highly distributed software-defined approach similar to those used by web and cloud companies, the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform integrates both server and storage to create extremely scalable, enterprise-grade virtualized solutions. Oil and Gas industry use cases: • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for both technical and field teams

• Virtualized collaboration and file sharing environments

• Efficient remote and field office IT infrastructure

Whether you are looking at VDI, collaboration, and remote/field IT supporting interpretation, visualization, and modeling, Nutanix can help you: • Improve team productivity– Eliminate data and application bottlenecks and support remote/field teams for faster time to production

• Respond faster to changing requirements – Get true linear scalability to accommodate dynamic environments with different workloads

• Stay up and running – Protect critical applications and information with no disruption to technical and remote teams

• Control capital and operational costs – Cost effectively deploy in a fraction of the footprint, power, and space without administrative complexity

• Get mission critical support – Benefit from proactive support with 24x7 coverage and 4-hour parts replacement1.

Key Features

Risk-Free VDI and High-Performance Collaboration for Interpretation and Visualization Seismic interpretation, visualization, and modeling have undergone transformation recently due to the adoption of virtualization and Windows-based solutions from companies such as Schlumberger and Landmark. In parallel, Citrix and VMware have created effective solutions to virtualize desktops to run in the datacenter. However, to be practical the virtual desktops need to be easy to deploy, and maintain the user experience of dedicated high-end workstations at a lower cost.

Using Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform, VMware Horizon View, or Citrix XenDesktop can be deployed in less than half a day at much lower costs than traditional IT infrastructure. Virtual Computing Platform also extends the benefits of VDI to technical teams, who were previously denied the benefits of VDI due to their complex datasets. Additional virtual desktops for technical and remote/field users can be added simply by adding more nodes – all while maintaining the end-user experience.

Using a secure private cloud model and functionality such as cloning and shadow clones, the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform can host virtual machines (VMs) delivering high performance file serving. Additionally, applications such as Microsoft SharePoint on either VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V on the Virtual Computing Platform can enable greater collaboration amongst team members and scale as the team grows.

Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is designed for virtualized IT environments that have demanding storage capacity requirements and performance needs. Each Nutanix node in the distributed cluster has its own software-based storage controller VM, along with flash and hard disk drives. The Virtual Computing Platform architecture not only ensures that hot data is available and being served from local flash, it also enables truly linearly scaling when more performance and capacity is needed by adding additional nodes.

Enterprise level high-availability is built into the Virtual Computing Platform architecture. Features such as in-cluster and multi-site replication are complemented with VM-level snapshot and cloning capabilities for tier-1 applications. Read more about the award-winning Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform architecture including the Nutanix Distributed File System in the Nutanix Technical Whitepaper.

About NutanixNutanix delivers web-scale IT infrastructure to medium and large enterprises with its software-driven Virtual Computing Platform, which natively converges compute and storage into a single solution to drive unprecedented simplicity of the datacenter. Customers can start with a few servers and scale to thousands, with fully predictable performance and economics. With a patented elastic data fabric and consumer-grade management, Nutanix is the blueprint for application-optimized infrastructure. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on Twitter @nutanix.

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Nutanix: Oil and Gas Industry Solution Brief

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Simple, Efficient Solutions for Field and Remote Offices Providing IT infrastructure for remote sites has always been a challenge for IT in the Oil and Gas industry. With a need to support sites as diverse as offshore oilrigs and remote technology centers with specialized technical teams, it is essential to deploy the right virtualization infrastructure. Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform gives IT the ability to support virtual servers and desktops in remote sites using a fraction of the power, space, and cooling with none of the complexity previously required. By maximizing compute, storage and performance per rack-unit (RU) using the same award-winning architecture used in the datacenter, IT can bring up remote sites with minimal effort or footprint.

“Nutanix has simplified operations tremendously for us. Performance and provisioning are a snap now. We get great support from the team.”

– IT Architect, S&P 500 Company

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