Case Study: EUMETSAT achieves self-service, multi-cloud access to satellite climate data with Morpheus Data

Powering self-service access to climate data for meteorological services and climate scientists

EUMETSAT, the intergovernmental organization that operates Europe’s meteorological satellites, faced rising demand from national meteorological services and climate researchers for self‑service access to large satellite data sets — essentially “bringing users to the data.” To support both mission‑critical and general‑purpose domains with external elasticity and seamless user experience, EUMETSAT sought a multi‑cloud orchestration solution and selected Morpheus Data and the Morpheus multi‑cloud management platform after an extensive RFP and proof‑of‑concept process.

Morpheus Data, working with partners such as T‑Systems and Dell EMC, implemented a hybrid multi‑cloud solution that interconnects multiple OpenStack flavors (including VMware Integrated OpenStack), VMware and public clouds, and integrates storage and protection technologies (EMC Isilon/ECS, CEPH, Avamar) plus API‑driven networking (VMware NSX, OpenStack Neutron). The deployment delivered concrete outcomes for EUMETSAT — interconnection of disparate clouds, a data management framework, mission‑critical data protection, and compliant federated data access — enabling self‑service provisioning of satellite data in custom combinations and paving the way to operationalize dev/test infrastructure and build a future European weather cloud.

Eumetsat

Lothar Wolf

Data Services Competence Area Manager