Press Releases
2004
PETROLEUM GEO-SERVICES CHOOSES FORCE10 E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTER AND GAINS SIX-FOLD INCREASE IN NETWORK PERFORMANCE
MILPITAS, Calif., February 2, 2004 — Force10 Networks today announced that Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), an oilfield services company with headquarters in Norway and Houston, Texas, has deployed the E-Series to increase performance and reliability in its UK data center. With the Force10 E600 as the backbone of its network, PGS is running existing applications up to six times faster, significantly reducing the time it takes to process comprehensive data analysis.
“Over the next year we expect to double the size of our computing cluster as we design more advanced algorithms to process seismic data, and we need an interconnecting network that can deliver greater performance both today and as we continue to expand,” said Mike Turff, global DP systems manager for PGS. “With Force10’s E-Series, applications that took more than 30 hours to run prior to the data center upgrade now take less than five, bringing to our business an efficiency that allows us to better serve our customers.”
PGS collects and analyzes marine seismic data, enabling oil companies to locate new fields and discover better ways of extracting oil from existing ones. Deployed and serviced by Prime Business Solutions in the U.K., the Force10 E-Series provides PGS with a reliable and scalable network that enables the company to process seismic data using more advanced algorithms, more efficiently run applications and expand its network according to demand.
The Force10 E600 forms the hub of the PGS data center, interconnecting PGS’ storage facilities with its high performance cluster network. With line-rate Gigabit Ethernet ports, regardless of traffic conditions or network configuration, the Force10 E-Series ensures that the Teraflops of processing power and Terabytes of data storage are used efficiently and effectively, dramatically increasing the speed with which PGS does business.
“PGS operates in a rapidly expanding field that leverages new technology to acquire, process and prepare massive amounts of data that are vital to sustaining the world’s oil driven economy,” said Michael Augustine, Force10’s United Kingdom country manager. “The Force10 E-Series brings to PGS the scalability and reliability that ensure predictable performance, transforming the network into a true business asset by increasing efficiency and reducing costs.”
The Force10 E-Series combines unmatched scalability with best-in-class resiliency to give commercial organizations like PGS a new level of network and application predictability. Fully distributed hardware and modular software deliver line-rate Gigabit and 10 Gigabit throughput across all ports regardless of traffic conditions while built-in hardware redundancy guarantees performance continuity.
Prime Business Solutions, a U.K.-based systems integrator, provided network integration and technical support for the deployment. Delivering innovative solutions to enterprise and public sector customers, Prime Business Solutions also provides a full spectrum of life cycle services from consultancy and design to installation, support and managed services.
PGS operates more than 12 seismic vessels, has four floating production systems and maintains eight seismic data processing centers to provide marine seismic data, onshore surveying, and oil and gas production services. Leveraging its cluster computing and storage resources, PGS processes 3-D and 4-D seismic data, 4-D reservoir imaging and reservoir characterization studies to better explore the world’s oil resources.
About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks develops high-performance data center solutions powered by the industry’s most innovative line of open, standards-based, networking hardware and software. The company’s Open Cloud Networking framework grants Web 2.0/portal operators, cloud and hosting providers, enterprise and special-purpose data center customers new levels of flexibility, performance, scale and automation—fundamentally changing the economics of data center networking. Force10 Networks operates globally, providing 24x7 service and support to its customer base in more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.force10networks.com.
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