EUMETSAT buys cloud services from CloudFerro

28 lutego 2022

CloudFerro has signed a contract with the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) for providing Cloud Computing Elasticity services for the EUMETSAT hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. The new service will support the organization’s strategic goal to provide the users with easy and highly performing access to EUMETSAT Big Data as well as the provision of modern Data Services.

EUMETSAT is the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, an operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment. The organization provides users with access to a growing catalogue of meteorological, climate and ocean data 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The quantity and diversity of data types collected by Earth observation satellites are growing every year. It becomes necessary to create cohesive data structures to simplify and unite data storage.

The new Cloud Computing Elasticity service will provide computational flexibility in support of the applications and computational needs of the organization and its users. The service will fit seamlessly into the overall big data service platforms at EUMETSAT, providing identical services to users within scientific, governmental and commercial communities. This means that satellite observation data and meteorological products can be accessed via a single entry point, as if they were collocated.

As a leading provider of weather, climate and Earth system data, EUMETSAT is building strong foundations for a platform facilitating access to this data and its processing. We look forward to cooperating with CloudFerro, a trusted partner who, for the last two years, has been providing high quality cloud services on our WEkEO project, consistently making efforts to meet growing requirements and adjust to fast changing circumstances. We believe the new cloud project will benefit the scientific community of our users.

– says Graziano Mori, Head of Generic Systems & Infrastructure Division at EUMETSAT.

The Cloud infrastructure provided by CloudFerro offers significant advantages and has the potential to evolve into a real game changer in the way EUMETSAT, ECMWF and Member States user communities use data and Earth observation products. The consistency and elasticity can lead to an increase in the accuracy of measurements and better understanding of spatial patterns affecting climate change, which will bring better understanding of the Earth’s climate.

We are proud that such a prestigious institution as EUMETSAT has put trust in us again recognizing the high quality of services we have provided so far. Now, as a prime contractor, CloudFerro will provide Elasticity services supporting EUMETSAT’s current data services such as data access and visualisation, data discovery and data customisation tools. Given our specialisation in the cloud technology for satellite data and the experience we have gained from previous projects, we firmly believe we have all the competences and resources needed to address constantly growing requirements of specialized big data processing platforms for leading European firms and institutions like EUMETSAT. We are thrilled to handle these new challenges in the near future

– says Maciej Krzyżanowski, the CEO of CloudFerro.

CloudFerro provides the services of public, private and hybrid cloud computing and big data storage optimized for the processing of geo-located information to many renowned organisations. The company has been trusted by leading European firms and scientific institutions, including the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites EUMETSAT, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the EGI, to name a few. As a supplier of cloud services for the new EUMETSAT projects, CloudFerro will contribute with its unique know-how gained from many years’ experience as a designer and operator of Earth observation data platforms such as CREODIAS, CODE-DE, CDS and WEkEO.