Powering self-service access to climate data for meteorological services and climate scientists
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- Germany
Product
- Morpheus multi-cloud management platform
- EMC ECS
- EMC Isilon
- VMware NSX
- OpenStack Neutron
Tech Stack
- OpenStack
- VMware
- T-Systems OTC
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Aerospace
- Cities & Municipalities
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
EUMETSAT is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1986. The organization operates an extensive system of meteorological satellites that observe the atmosphere, ocean and land surfaces around the globe. EUMETSAT's mission is to supply weather and climate-related satellite data, images and products – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – to the National Meteorological Services of its Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide. These services help to enhance and safeguard the daily lives of European citizens. They aid meteorologists in identifying and monitoring potentially dangerous weather situations and in issuing timely forecasts and warnings to emergency services and local authorities, helping to mitigate the effects of severe weather and protecting human life and property. This information is also critical to the safety of air travel, shipping and road traffic, and to the daily business of farming, construction and many other industries.
The Challenge
EUMETSAT, an intergovernmental organization that operates an extensive system of meteorological satellites, recognized changes in users expectations, needs, and behavior in relation to the use of its data. More users wanted to benefit from self-service provisioning and hosted services on a common data lake ideally in conjunction with their own local IT environments. These new demands, combined with EUMETSAT’s internal IT needs, resulted in the definition of two fundamental domains: mission-critical and general purpose. Both of these required external elasticity as well as an architecture that would allow a seamless user experience and access to hosted software and data services. To achieve this, EUMETSAT needed the flexibility to bridge a wide range of clouds, tools, vendors, and platforms.
The Solution
EUMETSAT initiated a multi-phase program to define needs across mission-critical and scientific oriented use cases, assess services and technology requirements, and develop an operational roadmap for service delivery. This work kicked off a search for a multi-cloud management and orchestration platform that could unify a broad set of technologies and serve as the low barrier entry point for the autonomous and elastic self-service environment users had been longing for. EUMETSAT evaluated a wide array of vendors and selected Morpheus Data because they ensured their highest probability for success by blending proven enterprise-class capabilities with the agile response of a DevOps startup. EUMETSAT’s multi-cloud management solution includes the Morpheus multi-cloud management platform and complimentary technologies from partners such as T-Systems, Dell EMC, and VMware.
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