Case Study: DUG Technology modernizes HPC storage and expands beyond oil and gas with VAST Data

Dug Technology Modernizes With Exascale Flash Storage And Seizes New Opportunities Beyond Oil And Gas

DUG Technology, a high-performance computing provider with data centers in Perth, Houston, London, and Kuala Lumpur, needed to move beyond HDD-based Lustre storage to support growing, multitenant seismic workloads and new industries such as academia, genomics, and wildfire modeling. Its existing setup struggled with performance fairness, frequent drive failures, and the high cost of moving to SSDs on legacy infrastructure.

DUG Technology implemented VAST Data Universal Storage, powered by Intel® Technologies, to deliver flash-based exascale storage with better performance, reliability, and multitenancy. With VAST Data, DUG gained consistent workload isolation, zero-downtime updates, remote management, and data reduction that can cut storage costs by up to 85% versus HDDs, helping the company scale to tens of petabytes and expand its HPC-as-a-service business.

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Stuart Midgley

Chief Information Officer