Enterprise Storage Forum: Storing the Earth, One Satellite Image at a Time | Linux Today

Enterprise Storage Forum: Storing the Earth, One Satellite Image at a Time

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 7, 2006

“As DigitalGlobe’s IT director, Luc Trudel, explains, ‘Storage
plays a critical role in DigitalGlobe’s production line and asset
management. As all of our imagery products are digital in nature,
we need high-performance disk storage for processing raw imagery
into finished products as well as cost-efficient tapes for
long-term storage of raw and processed imagery.’

“In addition to wanting a system that had the ability to store
potentially hundreds of terabytes of media rich data, DigitalGlobe
needed a solution that could work within its ‘highly heterogeneous’
computing infrastructure, which includes Linux (SUSE and Red Hat),
Solaris, IRIX and Windows operating systems…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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