Unleash the Power of Geospatial Data with a Scalable Storage Infrastructure
Big data is exploding. With incredibly powerful and dynamic business intelligence (or BI) tools being developed daily and incredibly complex data warehouses, data mart schemas, and data lakes being constructed in the cloud, data has never been more valuable.
But what about geospatial data? As big data continues to evolve, the uses for geospatial data are ramping up. Here’s hoe your business can take advantage of geospatial data with cost-effective storage.
What is Geospatial Data?
Geospatial data (or spatial data) is all of the data around us that can be represented in a geographic coordinate system. This means that the location, size and shape of objects on the planet are all included under the umbrella of geospatial data. Typically, geospatial data is utilized and visualized via a Geographic Information System (of GIS).
For businesses, this geospatial data can play critical roles in supply chain management, location capture, expansions, sales territories, and any other business need or strategy that involved data centered around locations, objects or mapping.
Understanding the Role of Geospatial Data in Today’s Big Data Ecosystem
We’re in the middle of the big data boom. Data warehouses are considered “very important” by over 70% of businesses. And, 90% of IT pros plan to increase BI spending and data consumption over the next year. Businesses win with big data. But, not everyone is leveraging flat data that can be dumped into your standard lake.
Spatial data is capable of meeting complex business needs. Between spatial analytics, spatial data exploration, and spatial overlays, private and public businesses, governments, and non-profits leverage spatial data daily to make informed decisions. This could be eco routing, crop production, location planning and strategy or producing geological maps – there are millions of uses for spatial data.
But, to find value in all of this rich data, you need the ability to capture and store raw spatial data. As geospatial processing software continues to get more sophisticated and provides deeper value to businesses, storing the enormous array of spatial data coming from satellites, GPS systems and IoT tech requires flexible, high-performance storage systems that support the unique structure of spatial data.
Since spatial data has unique properties and uses, blending it into a data lake with all of your tech stack data is a recipe for disaster. You need dedicated storage solutions that complement the power and speed of your spatial software and BI tools.
Capturing the Future with the Ability 90-Bay EBOD Hardware
Storing spatial data requires high reliability and a unique blend between fast data speeds and big data quantity. Since software solutions that leverage spatial data are capable of consuming massive amounts of data rapidly to produce analytic or graphical solutions, you need a storage solution that supports those workflows while still giving you the room you need a storage solution that supports those workflows while still giving you the room you need to leverage the enormous wealth of spatial data coming at you from every direction.
The Ability 4U 90-Bay EBOD is that storage solution. This no-compromise, flexible, tiered storage solution is optimized for both application performance and data availability – which is critical when dealing with massive bays of data ready to be analyzed.
RAID Inc. continues to push the density envelope with this next-generation Ability drive enclosure, which can handle up to 90 SAS HDDs or SSDs in just 4U rack space. This gives customers the ability to store over 10PB in a single datacenter rack. Data intensive workflows require the ultimate in density to handle the sheer capacity required and need to do so in an efficient package.
“While RAID builds software defined solutions around many different EBOD technologies, our Ability 4U 90-Bay is our standard building EBOD. It was chosen for our Pangea® Lustre/ZFS product appliance and we are able to ship the product in many different configurations as we have many large customers that standardize on this platform,” stated Marc DiZoglio, President of RAID Incorporated.
If you’re looking for a storage solution that can handle your geospatial workloads, contact us.
