In the quest to supply oil and gas to the world, it's no surprise that energy companies rely upon technological advances to increase the speed and accuracy of the decision making process. This is most evident in seismic data acquisition and processing, where 4D seismic imaging techniques provide more opportunities to accurately analyze where and when to drill. Linux compute clusters provide affordable and extremely powerful computing capabilities to handle the demands of these imaging techniques. However, the large datasets driven by seismic applications often cause a performance bottleneck with traditional network storage solutions.

The Panasas Storage Cluster allows oil and gas companies to focus on their competitive advantage - analyzing data - in a faster more comprehensive fashion. By leveraging an object-based storage architecture, Panasas provides direct disk to client access to deliver exceptional bandwidth performance and accelerates the time needed to get interpreters their data. The integrated HW/SW solution fits seamlessly into existing seismic infrastructures and scales in capacity and performance within a single namespace to streamline manageability.