Case Study: Suncor Energy improves data governance and cuts storage costs with Ohalo Data X-Ray

Suncor Energy saves $800K per PB with Ohalo's Data X-Ray

Suncor Energy, a global integrated energy company, faced a critical challenge in governing sensitive data across its vast legacy systems and data lakes. With internal and external audit deadlines looming, the company needed to identify and classify PCI, PII, and PHI across 75 million files to ensure compliance and enable a cloud migration. They turned to Ohalo and its Data X-Ray solution to tackle this without interrupting operations and to control escalating storage costs from redundant data.

Ohalo's Data X-Ray provided automated discovery and tagging of sensitive content, integrated with the company's existing OpenText CMS and Collibra Data Catalog, and performed ROT analysis. This solution enabled Suncor Energy to complete its audit mandate two months ahead of schedule and reduced unnecessary data storage costs by $800,000 per petabyte deleted or archived. The results for Suncor included a two-month acceleration of their cloud migration project and the standardization of data sensitivity across the enterprise, establishing Data X-Ray as their standard for managing unstructured assets.

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