In a challenging industry environment, Crondall Energy, the oil and gas consultants, wanted to increase efficiencies in their existing IT environment while preparing for a pick-up in the market.
Azure backup from Cloud Direct, a Microsoft direct gold partner, helped Crondall achieve business resilience from the cloud. In a move they describe as ‘easy and quick’, Cloud Direct has taken them to a position of 100 percent successful data/system restores.
Key points
- Safe, smooth migration to Azure backup
- Effective use of existing IT, while preparing to scale when the market picks up
- Trust in data sovereignty: data stored in Azure’s two UK datacentres
- Backup data is secure, resilient and available
- Professional people at Cloud Direct
Background: the cusp of great transformation in the energy industry
Crondall Energy is a leading independent consultancy that provides strategic, commercial and technical services for offshore oil and gas projects worldwide that use floating production and subsea technology.
The oil industry is experiencing one of the most transformative periods in its history. Professional services network PWC believes the industry is on the cusp of a major redefinition, and must tackle cost and investment concerns in the short-term while preparing to respond to the future impact of inevitable external environmental pressures.
Crondall Energy had already been working to make the most of their existing IT, while readying the business to scale when the market picks up. They had just finished IT consolidation exercises and were ready for the next steps.
The challenge
Before Crondall Energy decided to buy Microsoft Azure Backup from Cloud Direct, the business was looking for three key things:
