U.S. ISR Data Requirements Lead to Storage Contract for IceWeb

September 3, 2010 by
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Prior to the U.S. Civil War intelligence was gathered by men on horses or foot who wrote down their reports with pen and paper. In that war the Union used tethered balloons with telegraph equipment. In World War I airplanes began to conduct reconnaissance missions with cameras providing overhead views of enemy positions. In World War II electronic means of collection were added including signals intelligence (SIGINT) and more sophisticated photo equipment was developed. Finally satellite and other advanced electronic intelligence (ELINT) systems came into use including the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).

All this has meant is that the amount of data being collected has increased dramatically. This now includes thousands of hours of real time video from UAV, helicopters, aircraft and other collection systems. Like the computing and internet world storage has grown from kilobytes to megabytes to giga and terabytes in both capability and requirements.

This demand has led to IceWeb (IWEB) the cloud network storage specialist who make systems like the 48 terabyte IceWeb 5000 data storage to win a contract through its partner VideoBank with the U.S. government to store this kind of data.

The collected data must be stored in such a way as it is available for immediate analysis and exploitation as well as for longer term use. The use of cloud storage such as this is an efficient way to manage data especially in the amounts that is being generated by the U.S. in support of combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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