GeoEye’s technology enables analysts and experts on the ground to gain significant insight into current and changing geospatial data in order to make critical decisions and support important missions around the globe. In order to collect, process, and analyze massive amounts of geospatial data, GeoEye required a scalable and flexible storage architecture that could accommodate the world’s highest resolution satellite imagery, GeoEye-1. Moreover, GeoEye demanded that satellite images be available with zero down time and 99.999% (5 nines) reliability, while keeping costs under control. Cleversafe’s Dispersed Storage Network (dsNet™) active archive solution provides GeoEye with over 99.9999999999999% (15 nines) of annual data reliability and system uptime.
