Challenge
A mid-size energy company faced an escalating storage crisis. Over time, its subsurface and project data had grown to nearly 5 petabytes, spread across Windows and Linux environments and multiple applications. Annual storage management costs exceeded $7.5 million, and the sheer volume of data was blocking its cloud migration plans. Duplicate datasets, inactive project files, and unstructured archives inflated infrastructure costs and slowed performance.
Solution
The company deployed Interica OneView™ (IOV) to gain full visibility and control of its data estate. IOV rapidly scanned and indexed data across both operating systems, identifying redundant and inactive files across seismic and application domains. Using policy-based archiving, the team safely migrated 3 petabytes of data to low-cost AWS cold storage, while retaining full traceability and metadata visibility through Power BI dashboards. Asset teams could still search, locate, and request archived data through IOV’s intuitive interface, maintaining accessibility without high active storage costs.
Result
Within the first year, the organisation achieved dramatic improvements in both cost and efficiency:
- Storage footprint reduced by 60% through duplicate detection and archiving.
- Annual savings of over $4 million, including avoided costs from future growth.
- Successful cloud migration achieved with minimal disruption.
- Improved data accessibility via Power BI integration and structured metadata. IOV’s automated discovery and archiving workflows helped transform the company’s sprawling data environment into a manageable, cost-efficient system — proving that visibility and governance directly drive financial performance.