Energy industry: Who will win in the cloud?
March 4, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Editorial Stafff.
Most oil and gas companies are already evaluating the risks and benefits of the cloud, and some have taken major steps towards virtualising their internal infrastructures. But the majority have yet to implement the full-scale automation or self-service provisioning that can help to harness the full benefits of the cloud.
As this trend gains momentum and scale, Accenture believes that cloud computing will combine with mobile technology and powerful analytics to change the game in the energy industry across five key dimensions…
Cloud and Data
Today, energy companies have to manage and make sense of an unprecedented and ever-expanding mass of ‘big data’. Cloud computing provides companies with access to transformational, new real-time data and analytical capabilities, underpinned by supercomputing power and massive storage capacity. This enables them to unleash the value locked up in financial and operations data across their organisations and allows them to undertake specific data-heavy activities, such as detailed analysis of seismic information…
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