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CIO, August, 2006 by Cindy Waxer

For a company whose bread and butter is producing crude oil, Newfield Exploration's storage environment was fast running out of gas. Saddled with a mix of disparate systems, platforms and applications, the $1.7 billion Houston company's storage environment was "a mess," according to Mark Spicer, Newfield's vice president of IT. Servers had to be rebooted twice a day to ensure availability, and keeping tabs on an overburdened architecture was draining scarce IT resources. With a workforce growing at an annual rate of 20 percent, Newfield Exploration was in desperate need of greater storage capacity.

"We were just starting to reach critical mass, so we really needed to overhaul the whole storage system to plan for growth," says Spicer.

Newfield Exploration could have...

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