Success Story: Energy & Utilities

CompuCom conducts a thorough assessment of each client’s business objectives and technical requirements to determine a strategy for the continuous improvement of its IT infrastructure.

Assessing Infrastructure Storage and Data Protection
The Client
When a large North American energy company merged with a smaller one, it became a leading, independent oil and gas producer serving Canadians with offices in nine countries.

The Challenge
The merger brought an increased need to ensure data security—both during the transition and beyond. The company wanted to achieve the following objectives:

• Establish a sound storage and data protection strategy going forward
• Leverage best practices to develop its infrastructure’s future state of storage

The Solution
First, we developed an effective enterprise storage strategic plan that would help our energy client achieve its goals, focusing on assessing the storage environment’s current state. We examined network, server, and storage infrastructure documentation to identify architecture, usage patterns, management of tools and processes, and application dependencies and then researched the IT department’s processes and policies. Finally, we analyzed our findings relative to an industry-standard enterprise storage infrastructure maturity model, performed a gap analysis, and presented our recommendations.

The Results
CompuCom’s assessment included the following components within a Sarbanes-Oxley compliance model:

• Best practices for the utilization of the latest storage technologies
• Capacity planning
• Future storage architecture, including local desktop storage
• Data backup and restoration
• Disaster recovery
• Storage management