Connected Graphics on display at SEG 2014 by NetApp, Cisco, Citrix and NVIDIA

The coming week sees the SEG International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting take place in Denver, Colorado. SEG is the Society of Exploration Geophysicists – those scientists that are at the sharp end of finding oil and gas around the world. Despite the current boom in non-conventional drilling methods (fracking and horizontal drilling), these natural resources are becoming harder to find. That’s where the partnership between NetApp, Cisco, Citrix and NVIDIA comes in.

You may remember that the four partners got together last year at the same show to perform live in-booth demonstrations on virtualized delivery of industry professional 3D graphics applications (Citrix joins NetApp at SEG 2013 to demonstrate virtualized delivery of 3D professional graphics applications). This year we’ll be taking that further by talking about how we’ve performed additional testing and validation work on the joint solution with some key additions to the technology.

Visit us along with our partners NetApp, NVIDIA and Citrix at the NetApp Booth 709. You’ll see how we can help oil and gas enterprises enhance collaboration and enable faster decision making without exposing sensitive data. Other NetApp and Cisco partners will join us for in-booth demos and events to highlight solutions that help you:

Scale your exploration environment rapidly without impacting performance

Enable your remote teams wherever they happen to be

Deliver secure 3D access to data and applications

The four partners have come together to provide an integrated solution that utilizes the power of Flexpod from Cisco and NetApp to virtualize the computing, networking and storage infrastructure, combined with graphics processing unit (GPU) capabilities from NVIDIA and desktop virtualization from Citrix. This enables the delivery of large-scale data sets for interactive and collaborative analysis in real-time, regardless of geographic site or worker location. Workers get a similar working environment as if they were local to the datacenter infrastructure, or using a powerful and costly local workstation.

Randal Kenworthy

Check out the NetApp blog tomorrow to find out what solutions will be demoed (Your Guide to NetApp at SEG – the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Int’l Exposition in Colorado). Also, lookout for further Cisco Blogs on both the Manufacturing Blog and Energy Blog sites for more information about the industry offers, business solutions and customer insights in these industries. In particular there is an excellent blog by Randal Kenworthy called Improving R&D Through Remote Visualization that shows how different industries such as discrete and process manufacturing can make use of these technologies.

Contact Wally Beck to schedule a one-on-one or in-booth/demo meeting with a NetApp oil and gas technical expert. Make a note to him if you would also like to see a Cisco person at the booth if available.

We look forward to seeing you there!