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Petrobras

Petrobras Boosts Application Performance on Offshore Oil-Drilling Platforms with Riverbed

Petrobras

Petrobras is a Brazilian integrated energy company that specializes in oil and oil byproduct exploration, production, refining, marketing, and transportation. Headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Petrobras operates in 27 countries and has more than 75,000 employees worldwide. The company runs 112 production platforms, 16 refineries, 30,000 kilometers of ducts, and over 8,000 service stations. Its stock is traded in the world’s main stock exchanges.

Petrobras demonstrates a commitment to sustainable development through allying integrated growth with profitability and social and environmental responsibility in the countries where it operates. Petrobras responds to the global energy production challenges by seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in processes and products and to achieve ecoefficiency.

Challenges

  • Data replication from 40 offshore drilling platforms to distant land-based facilities
  • Slow application performance on oil platforms
  • Backup process interrupted by lack of bandwidth
  • Network and application latency

Solution

  • 43 Steelhead appliances deployed

Benefits

  • Backup window reduced from 34 hours to four hours
  • Workers on oil platforms receive LAN-like application performance
  • Dramatically improved worker productivity and job satisfaction
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