IceWEB, a provider of data storage products, has received a new geospatial storage appliance order for oil spill monitoring and analysis.

According to a press release, BP will use the IceWEB (News - Alert) Geospatial Storage Appliance, in order to assist in the ongoing analysis of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP will receive the storage appliances after the company's second fiscal quarter.

"IceWEB storage appliances enable our geospatial solutions partners to deliver turnkey solutions," said John R. Signorello, CEO for IceWEB , in a statement. "Each appliance is pre-configured, loaded and optimized prior to customer delivery.”

Signorello added, “Consequently, these ready-to-deploy solutions provide end users with an immediate return on their investment. That ROI is further enhanced through IceWEB's innovative 'storage efficiency' technologies which dramatically reduces physical storage requirements."

IceWEB’s geospatial solutions, which are ready-to-deploy solutions, include various server types and sizes, system software, database software, storage type and size, and communications capabilities.

According to IceWEB, its Storage System is a feature-rich storage solution that simplifies the management of storage environment. It can deliver SAN, NAS, and/or DAS in one platform, with a full complement of built-in storage management features.

Apart from offering unparalleled storage efficiency rates, IceEB’s Storage System also features data protection capabilities, and an advanced suite of inter-connects and disk drives.

According to IceWEB, the company’s all Storage System configurations provide in-line data de-duplication, compression and thin provisioning. These systems also include unlimited snapshots, clones, asynchronous and synchronous replication, a built-in integrated management module for VMware, and more.

In recent news, IceWEB was awarded a storage appliance contract by a major U.S. electric and natural gas company to implement an IceWEB storage system for a geospatial platform. This storage appliance will support the energy providers with a geographic information system (GIS) to advance the input, processing and distribution of GIS information throughout the client organization as well as the various requirements from logistics, tracking assets and pipeline and electrical utilities.