Case Study: Fourth‑largest Oil & Gas Company achieves cloud economics and minutes‑level RPO/RTO with HPE SimpliVity OmniCube

Oil & Gas Company - Customer Case Study

A leading global oil and gas company (fourth largest, operating in 29 countries) faced a technology refresh on constrained offshore FPSO ships and in central data centers: aging servers and NetApp storage consumed two full racks, tape-based backups delivered slow or no off‑site recovery for ships 200 miles offshore, and mission‑critical apps (SQL Server, RDS, buoy/wave monitoring) suffered long RPOs/RTOs and limited manageability without onboard IT staff.

The company deployed three SimpliVity OmniCube CN‑2000 appliances (two 4RU nodes on the ship, one in a Texas data center), consolidating two racks into one, enabling inline deduplication/compression/optimization, and unified management through vCenter. The solution delivered integrated backup and DR with off‑site protection, reduced power/cooling and operating costs, migrated Tier‑1 VMs with no downtime, and improved recovery times by roughly 10× (from hours to minutes) while boosting application performance and operational efficiency.