Anadarko Chooses Network Appliance Storage Solution to Power Its Oil and Gas Exploration
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001--Network Appliance(TM), Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP - news), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, today announced that Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of the world's largest independent energy and petroleum companies, has selected Network Appliance as one of its strategic vendors to provide networked storage solutions for its global oil and gas exploration and development activity.
Anadarko has implemented a multiple-terabyte NetApp® F840 filer enterprise storage solution to store and distribute data to integrated teams of geologists, geophysicists, and engineers running a suite of Landmark Graphics software. The teams analyze large volumes of information about rock formations below the Earth's surface and use two- and three-dimensional imaging techniques to construct geologic models. They then use geotechnical and economic analysis software running on high-speed workstations to integrate the geological data into the models and prepare technical documents to support recommendations to drill a well.
``NetApp storage solutions will give Anadarko engineers quick and easy access to data on a global basis,'' said Morris Helbach, vice president of Information Technology Services and chief information officer at Anadarko. ``Our storage strategy is key to sustaining our increased level of exploration and development activity through efficient data management.''
Network Appliance provides cost-effective enterprise-class storage and content delivery solutions enabling the energy industry to deploy and manage its information assets on a global basis, bringing a new level of reliability, security, and performance to oil and gas exploration.
About Anadarko
Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. is one of the world's largest independent E&P companies, with proved reserves of more than 2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Domestically, it has operations in Texas, Louisiana, the Mid-Continent and Rocky Mountain regions, Alaska and in the shallow and deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Anadarko is the most active driller in North America. Internationally Anadarko is active in Canada, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, West Africa, Guatemala, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Georgia, the North Atlantic and Australia.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc., a leader in network file storage and content delivery, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a member of both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 index. Major corporations and service providers, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions.
The company pioneered the concept of the ``network appliance,'' an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. NetApp storage and content delivery platforms (filers and NetCache® appliances) are coupled with powerful content distribution and reporting software. This Center-to-Edge(TM) solution offers seamless data management from the back-end data center to the edge of the network quickly, simply, and reliably. The Network Appliance product portfolio utilizes the company's innovative data access software, known as the Data ONTAP(TM) operating system, as well as standards-compliant hardware. It also offers multiprotocol support and transparent integration for UNIX® and Windows® environments.
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