The oil, gas, and broader energy sectors face more pressure than ever to modernize infrastructure while maintaining uninterrupted operations. These industries function at the intersection of critical infrastructure, high capital investment, and remote field operations, where even minor disruptions can lead to significant financial, safety, and environmental consequences. With energy demand increasing and global markets shifting, organizations are being asked to do more with less: increase output, ensure regulatory compliance, adopt sustainability practices, and improve efficiency, all while reducing risk and costs.
Adding to the complexity, the environments in which energy companies operate are among the most challenging for IT. Remote drilling sites, substations, refineries, and offshore platforms often lack consistent network connectivity, climate control, or on-site technical staff. Traditional IT solutions, designed for centralized data centers, weren’t intended to withstand these conditions or scale effectively across hundreds or thousands of locations. When systems fail at the edge, the cost isn’t just downtime—it’s lost production, safety hazards, and delays in critical decision-making.
Edge Infrastructure Built for the Energy Sector
In this high-stakes environment, the need for reliable, easy-to-manage, and edge-ready infrastructure is clear. Scale Computing Platform was built from the ground up to meet these demands. With a unified, hyperconverged architecture that integrates compute, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery into a single platform, SC//Platform empowers energy organizations to deploy resilient IT infrastructure wherever needed, without complex integrations or deep IT expertise.
For energy companies operating field sites, plants, or substations across geographically dispersed locations, SC//Platform delivers critical advantages:
- Fast, remote deployment to get operations online quickly
- Centralized management of hundreds or thousands of sites through SC//Fleet Manager
- Resilient, self-healing infrastructure that ensures uptime—even in harsh or remote environments
- Cost-effective scaling as business demands grow
From real-time monitoring systems to SCADA and analytics workloads, SC//Platform keeps applications running close to where data is generated and decisions are made—without sacrificing performance or manageability.
Security and Compliance
SC//Platform directly supports and enables several critical compliance areas in the energy sector, especially those related to cybersecurity, operational resilience, and data integrity. While SC//Platform is not a compliance product itself, it provides the infrastructure foundation necessary to meet many regulatory requirements.
SC//Platform supports:
- Centralized access control and role-based user permissions
- Logging and audit trails for infrastructure activity
- High availability and failover to support critical system uptime
- Automated snapshots and replication, supporting records retention and disaster recovery policies
- Ensuring continuous system uptime through self-healing, fault-tolerant architecture
- Supporting secure system management and access policies across distributed clusters
Proven in the Field
SC//Platform’s architecture is purpose-built for edge use cases. Unlike traditional IT stacks or retrofitted solutions, it eliminates the complexity of managing multiple vendors, licenses, and components.
One example of SC//Platform’s impact in the energy sector is Telford Offshore, a provider of offshore accommodation and support vessels for oil and gas operations worldwide. With ships operating in remote locations and unpredictable network conditions, Telford needed a solution that could ensure application availability and simplify IT operations without requiring constant remote support. By deploying SC//Platform, it replaced its aging and complex infrastructure with a hyperconverged solution that is easy to manage, resilient to failure, and optimized for edge environments.
With SC//Fleet Manager, Telford’s IT team can remotely monitor and manage infrastructure across vessels around the world—from a single interface. This visibility helps them proactively identify issues, deploy updates, and maintain uptime, even when onboard connectivity is limited.
Telford’s IT team benefits from faster deployment, streamlined updates, and robust disaster recovery—even across vessels spread across multiple continents. The result is reduced complexity, lower maintenance overhead, and improved system reliability, enabling Telford to focus on delivering critical offshore services without IT becoming a bottleneck.
Why Energy Leaders Choose Scale Computing
In an industry where uptime, efficiency, and simplicity are non-negotiable, energy organizations choose SC//Platform because it is purpose-built for the realities of edge and remote operations. Whether modernizing legacy systems or deploying infrastructure in greenfield sites, IT teams trust Scale Computing to deliver a solution that works reliably, everywhere it is needed.
- 70% lower total cost of ownership compared to traditional infrastructure
- No specialized training required—any IT generalist can deploy and manage the platform
- Resilience built in—no single point of failure, live patching, and rolling updates with zero downtime
- Complete visibility across every deployment via SC//Fleet Manager
- Space-saving hardware options that can run in low-power environments without sacrificing performance
See What’s Possible
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