Case Study

Energy: Storage Optimisation​

Demonstrating the potential cost savings with optimised storage consumption.

At a Glance

DigiRen helped a global energy company optimise growing storage costs by developing clear guidelines, baselining their estate, and engaging key stakeholders. This led to executive endorsement, detailed recommendations, and a cost-effective execution plan, demonstrating significant potential savings and efficiency improvements across the organisation.

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Executive buy-in and endorsement​
Yes
Demonstrated cost savings​
Yes
Detailed execution plan​

Challenge

Our client is a global energy and resources company that owns and operates resource and energy assets worldwide.

The client's storage needs were growing rapidly across on-prem and cloud tiers but it was experiencing sub-optimal storage consumption and increased costs. If left unchecked, costs would grow more quickly as the organisation shifts to cloud-based services.​ ​

Some of the challenges facing the client include:​​

  • Unclear legal, regulatory, industry and business requirements​​
  • Reactive storage delivery approach​​
  • Inefficient storage usage​​
  • Increasing storage costs

The Challenge for DigiRen:

Provide clarification to the client's business units and develop cost-effective solution options by providing guidance on uplifting the current estate. ​

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Approach

  1. Defined the challenge, context and problem to be solved to get a clear purpose, scope & objectives and obtain buy-in from executives​​
  2. Baselined the storage and data estate from a technology perspective​ including estate tiers, size, scope, costs, compliance obligations, processes, procedures and roles & responsibilities​​
  3. Engaged with Subsurface line of business executives and data management team to understand their current storage and performance baseline, needs, pain points and ways of working​​
  4. Developed a provisional Storage Guideline based on technology and Subsurface requirements​​
  5. Conducted an impact assessment of the Subsurface baseline estate against the provisional Storage Guideline ​and proposed a set of detailed recommendations​
  6. Facilitated handover to the Core Services program delivery team for planning and implementation.

Outcomes

Executive endorsement of the guideline from provisional to an organisation wide first release and of the detailed recommendations and next steps.​​

Incorporation and planning of the detailed recommendations into a project for execution by the Core Services program delivery team.​​

Demonstration of the potential efficiency and cost savings gains of applying the guideline more widely across the organisation​​.

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