Multinational Oil and Gas Firm Total Selects Nutanix

Nutanix, Inc. announced that Total S.A., one of the largest energy producers in the world, has implemented its solutions, including HCI software, AHV, Files, Flow, Prism, and Xi Frame to develop an unified IT environment supporting the majority of their operations.

Total selected Nutanix to deliver the reliability and performance its users expect, while ensuring the necessary flexibility for the company to adapt to the changing oil and gas industry. Additionally, the company did this selection to support its goal of minimizing its datacenter footprint as part of its environmental initiatives to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Total is a French multinational company whose businesses cover the entire oil and gas supply chain. Its global operations encompass everything from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production, to power gen, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading.

To power its distributed operations, ut needed an IT environment that could support its 7,000 applications across the organization, as well as to help increase the reliability and flexibility of their IT infrastructure. In addition, it also needed a solution that would help them modernize their siloed datacenter and provide a consistent platform and management for all the company’s sites, regardless of the size of each site.

“Over the past few years, we have standardized the majority of our IT infrastructure on Nutanix and have migrated our operations to several clusters throughout North America,” said Guillaume Brocard, senior operations advisor, Total. “These 11 clusters are 100% Nutanix, with no other on-premises infrastructure. Standardizing on Nutanix has enabled us to dramatically reduce our TCO, while helping us make our operations more efficient.“

Nutanix solutions help enable Total to streamline administration and enhance automations, including maintenance, as well as optimize costs. They also contribute to providing the reliability and performance required to maintain its business leadership in the challenging energy production space, as any loss of services could have significant repercussions. With Nutanix software powering its IT infrastructure in North America, Total has experienced no loss of services for its affiliates in the past three years.

In addition to streamlining operations and increasing reliability, Nutanix solutions help enable its customer to deploy resources to keep up with its growing needs. The ability to scale, as well as roll in and roll out resources as needed, is an important aspect for Total as it navigates a changing landscape with ever-evolving IT needs. The software-defined infrastructure solution enables this flexibility while also providing built-in data protection and one-click security upgrades to help maintain the security and integrity of sensitive industry data.

“With over 7,000 applications across their global organization, Total needed an IT infrastructure that could consistently deliver high performance globally,” said Andrew Brinded, VP and GM EMEA sales, Nutanix. “With Nutanix, Total has the peace of mind of knowing they have a reliable infrastructure that can easily scale to meet the growing needs of the industry.“

With a variety of Nutanix solutions supporting key infrastructure operations, Total has an extensible foundation that can bring new efficiencies to their operations. Over the next 3 years, it plans to continue ramping up its Nutanix environment to enable additional sites and services, optimizing costs using Nutanix solutions together with other technologies.

Case study: Total powers Digital Transformation across Energy Production with Nutanix