IBM and Amazon Web Services Inc. have announced a future partnership designed to help increase the energy transition to better serve customers.
The new collaboration is aimed to prioritize and enhance the usability of OSDU Data Platform applications within the AWS cloud, according to a press release.
"Much of the data needed to solve the complex energy challenges, such as superior subsurface decisions, already exists, yet is untapped. 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," Bill Vass, vice president, engineering, AWS, said in the release. "By collaborating with IBM and leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, we will be able to offer customers a global, seamless offering with the flexibility to run on virtually any IT infrastructure and drive longer-term digital innovation."
Under Amazon Web Services, the OSDU forum targets the development of data platforms tracking energy industry-standard information, the press release said. As a cross-industry collaboration, IBM and AWS will provide a vendor-neutral framework for companies to develop data platforms outside of common energy industry standards while accelerating the value of the platform and serving the needs of energy companies today with the flexibility to adapt to their energy transitions.
"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," Manish Chawla, global managing director, energy, resources and manufacturing, IBM, said.
The new venture between the two companies will rely on an open-source solution for the oil, gas and energy market. The collaboration between IBM and AWS will also help to accelerate the reduction of data barriers in the industry.