Major Energy Provider Relies On Timely Advice And Support To Execute Its Mission
Major Energy Provider Relies On Timely Advice And Support To Execute Its Mission
2 PagesPOWERED BY DATA To keep the lights on for millions of energy consumers, power providers must rely not only on the integrity of their power plants and transmission lines, but also on the predictive analysis of massive amounts of data. As an example, one major provider in the Western U.S. applies sophisticated business intelligence to its real-time production facility data, which enables dispatchers to efficiently schedule and dispatch power throughout the provider’s territory. One of the energy provider’s senior system administrators is tasked with designing, specifying, and managing the storage systems that house the provider’s vast amounts of data. Recently, he began virtualizing data storage resources and consolidating the existing mix of EMC and HP hardware onto a single sto
