NASA is Exanet’s 100th clustered storage solution customer

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NASA, the US space agency, is expanding its storage capabilities using an ExaStore ICM clustered solution on IBM hardware. The organisation becomes Exanet’s 100th customer.

Exanet’s software will be managing mission-critical data at the Dryden Flight Research Centre, NASA’s centre for aeronautical research and atmospheric flight operations, based at Edwards AFB, California, in the western Mojave Desert. The cluster storage system is to handle the scientific data produced by projects, including post-flight retrieval of in-flight streamed metadata (PRISM), flight card/test point management system (TPMS) and in-house telemetry applications. Jessica Lux-Baumann, NASA flight test information engineer, says that requires a high-performance, very scalable storage solution for its data management and mining activities. “We were looking for a cost-effective way to manage our mission-critical data in a simplified environment without sacrificing scalability, performance or the high availability needs of our research team,” she says. “Coupled with IBM servers and storage systems, Exanet gave us the single file system scalability that we needed while enabling our engineers with fast, easy access to shared test result data.” Exanet’s CEO Rami Schwartz says that the solution enabled Dryden to solve business-orientated challenges that included workflow for data management, high speed data capture from various real-time mission test sources, and providing an environment for NASA engineers to collaborate easily on data analysis.