下载PDF
Informatik Group: Rapid Deployment and Massive Savings
技术
- 分析与建模 - 实时分析
- 功能应用 - 远程监控系统
- 网络与连接 - 网络管理和分析软件
适用行业
- 石油和天然气
- 药品
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 设施管理
用例
- 实时定位系统 (RTLS)
- 远程资产管理
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 网络安全服务
- 系统集成
挑战
When deploying global networks, it’s important to be able to quickly identify what is on a customer’s network. During deployment and transition into steady state, it’s imperative to be able to quickly receive monitoring information related to critical IT infrastructure without having to take time to build and deploy complex monitoring tools. Additionally, there is a need to be able to monitor and report network performance from the end users’ perspective rather than from the core of the network where performance is generally quite good. Informatik Group looked to Domotz as a solution that would provide telemetry to address network performance issues before the client contacted them. While engaged with a private equity firm involved in the acquisition of several divisions of a multinational company in the oil & gas industry, Informatik Group needed to assume and deploy a global network remotely for 30 locations that were spread across six continents. What made this extremely challenging, is that the deployment had to occur within a 48-hour period and had to be implemented by a US-based team of network engineers working in shifts.
关于客户
Informatik Group, LLC is a professional consultancy team focused on providing rapid Information Technology transformation solutions to global organizations. Among other clientele, they work with Private Equity Firms on pre-merger technical assessments, planning and execution of global networks and data center deployments, ERP integrations and post migration support. Informatik Group helps its customers understand their technical landscape and associated financial obligations, assess, optimize and execute a transformation plan, and provide post-transformation monitoring and knowledge transfer to steady state support organizations. Informatik Groups highest profile clients are in the Energy, Pharmaceutical, Food Manufacturing and Logistics industries.
解决方案
To prepare for this deployment, Informatik Group’s team built and shipped out a “Network-in-a-box” to every location. Domotz, a key part of this “Network-in-a-box”, was used for the monitoring, telemetry, mapping and remote access. Upon deployment, Domotz quickly discovered all network devices not previously known to Informatik Group. While the discovery of new and unexpected systems is normal for a new acquisition, the details provided by Domotz made it easy to comprehend classify and organize how the team would deal with these systems. In the initial phases of a project, this discovery of these new systems helped to identify network devices that Informatik Group may not have otherwise known to ask about and were considered critical to the operation of the organization. As an example, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and video conferencing systems, were discovered by Domotz but not originally reported by some sites. Using Domotz, Informatik Group was able to easily access the critical network infrastructure of the systems they deployed and the newly discovered systems downstream of their networks. Each Domotz agent was configured to provide real-time monitoring of critical network infrastructure, including routers, firewalls, switches, wireless access points, printers and ISP circuits among others. By the end of their, successful, 48-hour deployment, Informatik Group was monitoring 30 sites. Each of these sites, with over 590 critical infrastructure devices and more than 2,600 standard devices, were being actively monitored by Domotz, with real-time alerts and telemetry.
运营影响
数量效益
相关案例.
Case Study
Case Study: Pfizer
Pfizer’s high-performance computing software and systems for worldwide research and development support large-scale data analysis, research projects, clinical analytics, and modeling. Pfizer’s computing services are used across the spectrum of research and development efforts, from the deep biological understanding of disease to the design of safe, efficacious therapeutic agents.
Case Study
Taking Oil and Gas Exploration to the Next Level
DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) wanted to increase computing performance by 5 to 10 times to improve seismic processing. The solution must build on current architecture software investments without sacrificing existing software and scale computing without scaling IT infrastructure costs.
Case Study
Remote Wellhead Monitoring
Each wellhead was equipped with various sensors and meters that needed to be monitored and controlled from a central HMI, often miles away from the assets in the field. Redundant solar and wind generators were installed at each wellhead to support the electrical needs of the pumpstations, temperature meters, cameras, and cellular modules. In addition to asset management and remote control capabilities, data logging for remote surveillance and alarm notifications was a key demand from the customer. Terra Ferma’s solution needed to be power efficient, reliable, and capable of supporting high-bandwidth data-feeds. They needed a multi-link cellular connection to a central server that sustained reliable and redundant monitoring and control of flow meters, temperature sensors, power supply, and event-logging; including video and image files. This open-standard network needed to interface with the existing SCADA and proprietary network management software.
Case Study
Refinery Saves Over $700,000 with Smart Wireless
One of the largest petroleum refineries in the world is equipped to refine various types of crude oil and manufacture various grades of fuel from motor gasoline to Aviation Turbine Fuel. Due to wear and tear, eight hydrogen valves in each refinery were leaking, and each cost $1800 per ton of hydrogen vented. The plant also had leakage on nearly 30 flare control hydrocarbon valves. The refinery wanted a continuous, online monitoring system that could catch leaks early, minimize hydrogen and hydrocarbon production losses, and improve safety for maintenance.