Most people think of the Old West and 200 foot-high gushers when oilfields are mentioned, but Seventy Seven Energy Systems Architect Chris Dodds thinks of cloud solutions and identity management. When Oklahoma-based oilfield services company Seventy Seven Energy spun off from Chesapeake Energy almost two years ago, Chris Dodds and his team were charged with building a new IT support system for the company in just 12 months. The benefits of working from a blank canvas were clear, like dumping legacy applications and adopting a flexible platform that provides options, but this was no small undertaking. Dodds happily accepted the challenge, and so did we. Seamless, Secure Cloud Convergence While Seventy Seven Energy was able to unload many of Chesapeake’s legacy applications, some of the on-premises apps remained. The seamless and secure convergence of legacy apps with new cloud services is a problem that plagues IT decision-makers across all industries.