A typical analytics application in the oil and gas sector handles petabytes of data on a daily basis; those applications access that data from file shares. Architects have to plan for the storage capacity needs of those applications, taking into account future scale-up, before implementation can even begin. Once migrated, the storage should also be capable of meeting the required performance levels of analytics applications so that the company can continue to gain business insights from the data at the same speed as on premises. Read more about How to Deal With Big Data Analytics in a New Environment