Case Study: SafeKick achieves high-availability, real-time oil‑rig monitoring and 35% cost savings with StorMagic SvSAN

StorMagic SvSAN delivers the competitive advantage for SafeKick’s oil rig monitoring software

SafeKick, creator of the SafeVision “Driller’s GPS” oil rig monitoring system, faced harsh offshore conditions—limited and slow internet, unreliable power, cramped spaces and costly hardware failures—that threatened real-time performance and availability. To support high availability, real-time performance and simple on-site maintenance, SafeKick turned to StorMagic and its SvSAN software-defined storage as the back-end for SafeVision.

StorMagic implemented SvSAN as a software-only, two-server no-SAN architecture with synchronous mirroring, remote centralized management and turnkey deployments, eliminating complex SAN hardware and extensive cabling. The StorMagic solution cut overall costs by 35%, reduced SafeVision failover licensing fees by 50%, lowered power and equipment needs, simplified on-site setup (one crossover cable) and delivered reliable failover and easier maintenance for SafeKick’s clients.

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