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INDUSTRY WATCH
HAVING A CLEAR PICTURE
OF EVENTS CAN SAVE
TIME AND MONEY IN
MEETING COMPLIANCE
REQUIREMENTS.
Creation of incidents based on events
that happen in your environment: Oil
and gas companies are subject to strict
regulations for data protection and other
sensitive areas, so having a clear picture of
events can save time and money in meeting
compliance requirements
Achieving digital
transformation agility
Gregg Petersen, Vice President MEA at
Veeam Software
• Keep one copy of the backups in an off-
site location
Data loss avoidance: Your availability
solution should enable you to achieve recovery
time and recovery point objectives of less than
15 minutes for all applications and data.
Off-site backup and recovery: You need
the flexibility to leverage cloud backup and
replication as part of your three-two-one
data protection strategy.
Fast recovery of the entire machine or
application-level recovery: Verifiable recovery
of every file, application and virtual server
every time is key.
Enabling analytics and visibility
Visibility and real-time monitoring and
reporting for your virtual environments:
This will help you not only meet compliance
requirements, but also anticipate and
address potential problems before they
affect operations.
End-to-end visibility for both physical
and virtual machines: This will help prevent
possible failures of any type of application
or system.
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Testing applications and application
upgrades before they go into production:
By using a solution that features an on-
demand sandbox to test applications,
IT teams can cost-effectively accelerate
development and improve quality assurance.
Cloud-based data management: Public
cloud is an increasingly valuable aspect of
digital life. By leveraging public cloud services
such as Microsoft Azure, IT can support
DevOps teams and other lines of business
with the infrastructure they need without
having to go through lengthy procurement
and deployment processes
Workload mobility: The complex IT
infrastructure of oil and gas companies
involves physical and virtual machines, as
well as private, public or hybrid cloud. To
achieve an optimal set-up, you need a data
management and availability solution that
provides a certain degree of flexibility, to
manage and migrate data easily.
Flexible, simple and cost-efficient
deployment options: With the right
availability solution, you should be able
to manage, migrate and restore your
data across a physical, virtual and cloud-
based IT infrastructure without complex
configurations or additional hardware
investments, thus minimising
operational costs.
In conclusion, the oil and gas industry is
‘tailor made’ for digital transformation,
as noted by McKinsey: “The visibility and
clarity delivered by digital technologies
and advanced analytics can give
executives unprecedented, granular views
into operations, increase agility and
support better strategic decision-making.
Digital enablers, from process digitisation
to robotics and automation, can also
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