“Working with Bill was a pleasure as he was able to build a sound strategy with the required deployment plans therefore ensuring a successful project. Bill is an executive leader with a vision and I would partner with Bill again knowing in advance it can only end in success. ”
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Publications
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Kelman Becomes Katalyst
Katalyst
See publicationKelman Data Management, the global geophysical data management firm, has officially changed its name to Katalyst Data Management, the company announced in October.
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I Can See Clearly Now
New Technology Magazine
Clarity in now been introduced with the ability to in real time monitor and capture the field activity that takes place. This field activity reflect all the stages of a Seismic Acquisiton Program. Including the client in the process improves the final product.
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IBM, Seismic Data Provider Building Petabyte-Plus SAN
COMPUTERWORLD
See publicationSeitel and IBM partner to build worlds larges SAN storage system.
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Case Study Bringing Seismic Data to the Desktop
GULF CANADA — Kelman Archives ITX Award
See publicationA description of the difficulities and challenges of moving Legacy data to a modern cloud based solution.
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GULF CANADA — ITX Award Honourable Mention
IT WORLD CANADA
See publicationGulf Canada’s seismic archive is the largest and most sophisticated of its kind in the world. Its integration of robotic technology, advanced telecommunications and detailed knowledge of seismic data, gives it a significant competitive advantage and leading-edge data management processes. The speed with which such large amounts of data can be accessed and delivered to the desktop is unprecedented and sets a new standard for data processing in the oil and gas industry.
Read more:…Gulf Canada’s seismic archive is the largest and most sophisticated of its kind in the world. Its integration of robotic technology, advanced telecommunications and detailed knowledge of seismic data, gives it a significant competitive advantage and leading-edge data management processes. The speed with which such large amounts of data can be accessed and delivered to the desktop is unprecedented and sets a new standard for data processing in the oil and gas industry.
Read more: http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/gulf-canada-itx-award-honourable-mention/36753#ixzz4aPqq5A00
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Virtual Tape Device
Description Of Tape Device Copyright
See publicationThe Virtural Tape Device, takes the place of a physical tape device, and removes the grasp of the technology on the data. It also eliminates the mechanical perfomance limits that previously existed and moves the data to a format that is now technology and platform independant.
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Kelman Archives Keeps the Data Flowing
IBM Corporation - Storage Systems Division
See publicationThe delivery of data in a Cloud Architecture that is supported by Robotic Tape Libraries. The soluton and the architecture has stood the test of time and still is in use today.
Patents
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Kelman Archives Virtual Tapedrive (KAVT) v.1.0.
Issued CA 464430
A software device, in a Unix system that read files rather then a physical tape device. This allowed the virtualization of data without requiring changes to application programs.
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Kelman Archives Daemon (KAD) v. 1.0
Issued CA 464429
A Daemon that communicated with the UNIX kernel that mounted and dismounted files, and read files on a variety of media independent of the different file system types.
Other inventorsSee patent
Projects
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Seismic Data Aquisiton Portal
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See projectThe Seismic Data Acquisition Portal captures field activity that is a product of a Seismic Acquisition Program. It starts with the design and incorporates an interactive field map and the data points recorded in the field, in real time. New Technology Magazine wrote an article of Project Portal illustrating how oil and gas companies are now participating in the acquition process and have clarity with respect to the the field challanges and the results they are collecting…
The Seismic Data Acquisition Portal captures field activity that is a product of a Seismic Acquisition Program. It starts with the design and incorporates an interactive field map and the data points recorded in the field, in real time. New Technology Magazine wrote an article of Project Portal illustrating how oil and gas companies are now participating in the acquition process and have clarity with respect to the the field challanges and the results they are collecting.
http://www.newtechmagazine.com/issues/search.aspx?qt=ss&phrase=software+bytes
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IBM And Seitel to Build Petroleum Industry's Largest Storage Area Network
See projectBuilding a Storage area network to manage data for more the 800 oil and gas companies.
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Seitel Forms Seitel Solutions, Ltd
See projectI joined to establish their data management, and Transform the manner in which they conducted business. A build a profit center within the organization.
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Society of Exploration Geophysicists - Bringing the seismic archive to the desktop
See projectThe story of 2.3 million items moved from the warehouse to a cloud based architecture, with desktop access. .
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North American Energy Corridor
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See projectThe first Data Center opening for North America's Largest owner of onshore Seismic data for the Energy Industry. This is a full page article that ran in the New York times the day of the Opening. Following this event a Mirrored datacenter was developed in Canada. Many Petabyte or Seismic Data reside in electronic for, managed in a Tivoli storage environment. This data center provided a component of the architectural under pinning of the solution.
Honors & Awards
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GULF CANADA — ITX Award Honourable Mention
IT WORLD CANADA
I develop the Solution and attend with my client Gulf Canada.
Gulf Canada’s seismic archive is the largest and most sophisticated of its kind in the world. Its integration of robotic technology, advanced telecommunications and detailed knowledge of seismic data, gives it a significant competitive advantage and leading-edge data management processes. The speed with which such large amounts of data can be accessed and delivered to the desktop is unprecedented and sets a new standard for data…I develop the Solution and attend with my client Gulf Canada.
Gulf Canada’s seismic archive is the largest and most sophisticated of its kind in the world. Its integration of robotic technology, advanced telecommunications and detailed knowledge of seismic data, gives it a significant competitive advantage and leading-edge data management processes. The speed with which such large amounts of data can be accessed and delivered to the desktop is unprecedented and sets a new standard for data processing in the oil and gas industry.
Read more: http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/gulf-canada-itx-award-honourable-mention/36753#ixzz4aPqI5FAx
or visit http://www.itworldcanada.com for more Canadian IT News
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