ROSEN Group Innovates Pipeline Inspections with AI, Powered by the Pure Storage Platform

When ROSEN Group began developing AI-powered products and services to deliver more valuable data to its global energy customers, it needed infrastructure capable of supporting their AI initiative. The Pure Storage platform, including Portworx, improves efficiency and accelerates innovation to help deliver data to their customers faster.

Helping Customers Make Better Decisions through Data

The ROSEN Group empowers customers across the global energy industry by providing cutting-edge technologies to inspect and manage industrial assets. Over its 40 years of operation, ROSEN Group has inspected and mapped a vast majority of the world’s pipelines, amassing around 20 petabytes of data.

At the core of ROSEN Groups’s value proposition is its ability to transform this data into actionable insights, enabling customers to optimize their industrial assets while meeting increasingly stringent pipeline maintenance regulations. With a forward-looking approach, ROSEN Group decided to harness its extensive data resources to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) platform. This platform is designed to help customers enhance asset protection and ensure a sustainable energy supply for years to come.

AI initiatives, however, demand fast and reliable data storage to streamline data pipelines, train machine-learning models, and accelerate insights through AI-powered analytics. In addition, ROSEN Group needed a solution to efficiently deliver these insights to customers in the form of detailed, timely reports. To meet these requirements, the company took a closer look at its storage infrastructure.

Accelerating AI with Containerization and Portworx

To accelerate the development of its AI platform, ROSEN Group adopted a containerized approach. This strategy allowed for greater scalability, automation, and agility in the management of its environment. To support this initiative, ROSEN Group selected Pure Storage and Portworx as the foundation for a high-performance, highly available, and scalable infrastructure tailored for AI and data management.

Portworx, a Kubernetes-native data management solution from Pure Storage, plays a pivotal role in ROSEN Group’s container platform by delivering seamless storage provisioning. This enables ROSEN Groups’s teams to request and deploy storage as needed for their AI and machine learning (ML) projects. Additionally, Portworx’s multi-cloud capabilities empower ROSEN Group to provision clusters across various regional cloud environments, ensuring flexibility and scalability.

The combination of Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade further supports ROSEN Group’s AI initiatives by providing unified and reliable, high-performance all-flash storage. These solutions not only meet the demands of the AI platform but also handle ROSEN’s everyday storage requirements with ease.

“Portworx has enabled us to automate around 99% of our platform, managing it as code,” says Thorsten de Vos, IT Service Architect at ROSEN Group. “This frees up our IT teams to focus on bringing more innovations to the environment, while the enterprise support from Pure Storage ensures our success every step of the way.”