IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are teaming up to help accelerate energy transition in the oil and gas industry.
The two firms will combine the IBM Open Data for Industries for IBM Cloud Pak for Data and the AWS Cloud to serve energy customers. This is built on Red Hat OpenShift and will run on the AWS Cloud to make it easier for customers to run workloads on the platform and on-premises.
The collaboration, which aims to accelerate the reduction of data barriers, will enable customers to run OSDU Data Platform applications in the AWS cloud or on-premises while addressing their data residency requirements.
"Much of the data needed to solve the complex energy challenges, such as superior subsurface decisions, already exists, yet is untapped,” said Bill Vass, vice president, engineering, AWS. “This is because one of the greatest values of that data is derived when it can be effectively combined, but usually this data is locked by data residency requirements, legacy applications or proprietary data formats."
By collaborating with IBM and leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, Bill added that AWS will be able to provide customers with an offering that operates virtually on any IT infrastructure and drives long-term digital innovation.
Together with the expansive cloud infrastructure of AWS cloud services, this data platform aims to help energy companies to reduce the cost, time and resources needed to leverage the data to derive insight, streamline operations and transition to sustainable energy generation.
“Our collaboration with Amazon Web Services is addressing the need to make it easier for energy customers to access their data and provides the industry with a flexible solution to meet the challenges of today, as well as more easily adapt as the industry evolves," said Manish Chawla, global managing director, energy, resources and manufacturing at IBM.
The two companies plan to collaborate on further co-development of future functionality to provide greater flexibility and choice on where to run OSDU applications.
