Oil, gas and energy companies generate huge volumes of data through sensitive equipment - volumes that roughly double every two years. Increasing amounts of data and an increased focus on data protection and reliability have resulted in a surge of interest regarding unstructured data management technologies. In oil and gas companies, unstructured data loads are increasingly generated not by a human workforce, but by machines - from scientific instrumentation, such as seismic exploration equipment, industrial sensors and meters, calibration and monitoring devices, all producing exceptionally precise measurements - all sending an influx of unstructured data each day, in the scale of petabytes. The latest seismic sensor technology alone is driving significant growth in data assets. Visualization and modeling applications, many with unique data types, are quickly multiplying the amount of data being stored.
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