Do you know how your business is doing relative to its competitors? Is California or Texas better for you to do business in? Are one of your vendors providing you better products than the others? These are age-old questions which usually have non-objective answers. It is the foreman who has worked for years in the…
How can Cloud Computing Help Thwart Cyber/Hacking Attacks
When most companies think of disaster recovery, they’re thinking of a natural disaster. However, these days, companies need to be prepared against more than just physical attacks. The frequency and severity of cyber attacks or ransomware are increasing. Stories about a major hack or ransomware attack seem to flood our newsfeeds almost daily, whether it’s…
Seven Ways Cloud Computing Supports Disaster Recovery
Disasters can hit a company in more ways than one. Whether it’s natural or manmade — flood, fire, major power outage, or cyber attacks — a disaster can mean lost data, which has caused companies to shut down. A company’s financial and customer data, as well as its proprietary intellectual property, is its lifeblood. If…
4 Ways Cloud Computing Can Reduce Your IT Budget
IT departments often experience a lot of the same headaches as other corporate departments: you have to do more with less. Budgets are being cut or frozen, even as companies are growing, and you and your staff are being stretched thin and thinner trying to keep up with it all. You can reduce a lot…
Important Data Migration Considerations Can Prevent Data Loss
Has the time come to change your business’ software or execute an upgrade you’ve been putting off? Often, these changes are necessary and inevitable but bring about concerns when it comes to migrating data. For oil and gas operators — whose data consists broadly of well activity, geospatial data, customers, and transactions — moving this…
A Surge of eCommerce Shoppers Is Coming — Is Your Site Ready?
Starting on Thanksgiving Day, internet retailers will see a consistent flood of traffic as people begin their holiday shopping. And while many sites will have their sale items prepped and landing pages live, many will forget to load test their site and prepare their infrastructure for the influx of visitors. A site that crashes under…
Using Automation and Digitization to Streamline Run Ticket Reconciliation
Drilling for natural resources is a practice that dates back to the mid-1800s. The reconciliation process for run tickets has been around for almost as long but, unlike drilling, has received very little attention when it comes to improvement. Many companies are still hand-ticketing, forcing accountants to spend hours going through individual tickets manually to…
Combating Cybersecurity Threats Through the Cloud
Many business executives shift their operations to the cloud because it affords them opportunities to streamline their day-to-day processes and back up their data. But what many don’t realize is that they’re also paving the way for better protection against data breaches and hacking attempts. Cloud cybersecurity has powerful potential for safeguarding sensitive data and…
Should You Be Looking at Migrating to Decentralized or Distributed Databases?
You’ve decided to move your business operations to the cloud. Smart move. Cloud computing is the undisputed path of the future and unlocks numerous benefits for streamlining your operations. But before you migrate data or start structuring your private business cloud, you’ll need to decide if now is also the right time to make the…
Artificial Intelligence Is Powering the Future of Oil and Gas
One of the biggest buzzwords across virtually every industry today is artificial intelligence (AI). But while we tend to associate a major AI presence in tech-minded fields like software development or data aggregation, it’s actually making huge inroads where you might least expect. Namely, in the commodities industry through advancements specific to oil and gas….
