StorNext puts Aechelon Technology’s High-Resolution Images on the Map

When Aechelon Technology cranked up its databases to deliver more detail in its visual imagery, the volume of information quickly outstripped its ability to manage data. The company chose StorNext® software to manage this rapid growth.The result:Doubled workflow speed and quadrupled project volume.

更高的图像分辨率乘以数据

Aechelon Technology provides image generation systems and geospatial databases to the U.S. Armed Forces for use in flight simulations. In addition to providing training simulation systems, the company also offers its customers visual databases that cover most of the planet. During the last two years, the company’s database business began growing at a rapid rate. To supply its customers with more precise visual imagery—including ground contours and features—the company quadrupled the capacity of its databases and underlying delivery capabilities and tripled its number of employees on its database and modeling team. However, its internal processes were struggling to cope, as only one computer at a time could access a project.

“在我们部署的StorNext之前，工作人员无法在项目上方便地合作，我们可以带来熊的计算马力的数量仅限于每个项目的单个工作站，”Aechelon技术的系统架构师David Morgan说。““我们的直接基础架构根本不可扩展，很难与其他部门共享数据库。我们最终来回复制了很多数据库，捆绑了网络带宽。“

在摩根之后，Aechelon技术转向Quantum的Stornext数据管理软件，在网站上看到了一个描述，并实现了加快公司工作流程的产品的潜力。亚搏官网app登录入口在评估产品之后，该团队立即认识到StorNext架构的优点以及它如何使工程师和图形设计者能够同时共享数据并访问多个工作站，从而避免停机时间。摩根对他留下的印象深刻，他决定没有必要评估竞争产品。

Aechelon deployed StorNext and added a Quantum Scalar® i500 tape library as a repository to deal with the tremendous increase in backup files.

福利：革命性的工作流程

The StorNext solution has been received enthusiastically at Aechelon.

“与单个磁盘阵列的表现相比，我们的意象队领先于Stornext的出色表现非常令人难以置信，”摩根说。““Quantum Stornext彻底改变了我们的工作流程。此外，我们的图像质量飙升，因为我们现在具有管理这些图像的处理能力。“

As a result of deploying StorNext data management software, source data can now be received on USB drives from various imagery providers and transferred into the StorNext file system. It is then available to Aechelon Technology’s team of imagery experts who can process it before it is transformed into millions of multi-resolution files.

“图像尺寸曾经是几个Terabytes”说摩根。“通过Quantum的StorNext软件，天空是极限。它允许我们至少加倍我们工作流程的速度，采取四倍的项目，并在我们以前的10倍地区提供高分辨率图像。“