
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Public Cloud
Applicable Industries
- Oil & Gas
- Transportation
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Construction Management
- Infrastructure Inspection
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
One of the largest energy producers in the world, Total S.A. needed a strategic solution to provide consistent platform and management for all of its sites, minimize data center footprint, and support environmental initiatives.
The Customer
Total SA
About The Customer
Total S.A. is a French multinational company in the oil and gas industry, with global operations covering exploration, production, power generation, transportation, refining, marketing, and trading. It has 7000 applications in use across the organization.
The Solution
Total chose to move its operations to a Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, which allows the company to support its business applications from a single manageable environment. Nutanix solutions, including the HCI solution, AHV hypervisor, Prism Pro management solution, Flow, Files, and Xi Frame, provide flexibility, scalability, and support for standardization.
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