Global growth in energy consumption is expected to increase by more than 40 percent over the next coming years. In some regions of the world, the increase in demand will exceed 100 percent over the same time period. Regardless of the rate at which there is a growth in energy sector in particular market, complexity is surely going to increase.
2. Global growth in energy consumption is
expected to increase by more than 40 percent
over the next coming years. In some regions of
the world, the increase in demand will exceed
100 percent over the same time period.
Regardless of the rate at which there is a
growth in energy sector in particular market,
complexity is surely going to increase.
4. ๏ Utility companies face many operational challenges like
infrastructure and grid security concerns, disruptive
technologies and new regulations.
๏ The energy industry is fostered to adopt the cloud technology
in order to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and help address
growing oil and power needs, such as increasing amounts of
data, real time access to data, or integration and
standardization of IT operations.
๏ So cloud computing offers a great combination of virtualization,
standardization, automation and efficiency to help reduce the
costs.
6. Energy and utility companies
can benefit from cloud in a
number of key areas
7. โโธIT infrastructure:
An agile and secure infrastructure provides security-
rich enterprise virtual servers, business backup and
recovery, and development and test environments to
support UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows for
improved enterprise flexibility.
8. โโธIData storage:
Data centers around the world can enable archive,
backup, and smart searches of all type of data like
structured and unstructured. They offer secure scalable
storage with a pay-as-consume or Pay- per -Use
model.
9. โธAdvanced analytics:
Business intelligence and advanced analytics can turn
information into insights that can be acted on in areas
such as procurement, asset operations and
maintenance.
10. โธMarketing business:
On-demand scalability makes it easier to capture,
integrate and analyze unstructured media content to
personalize marketing programs across various
channels.
13. โธShell Oil is using
cloud services to
manage and analyze
the massive amounts of
geological data
produced by the super-
sensitive seismic
sensors.
โธThe multinational oil
and gas corporation
ExxonMobil Upstream
Services built a cloud-
based infrastructure
service to deliver geo-
imagery to land
exploration workers,
irrespective of their
location
14. โธAtmos Energy
Corporation, the
American distributor of
natural gas, deployed
clod technology to
integrate utility assets
and consolidate
operations spread
across six business
units.
โธTullow Oil, has
deployed the cloud
computing-based
software across its
business, which enables
employees to securely
exchange very large
files containing maps,
oil-well data, CAD
drawings, images,
graphics, GPS
information and other
crucial information
without congesting the
email system.