Case Study: Caltech Achieves Reliable, Power-Efficient Storage with Nexsan

Caltech Relies on Nexsan Reliability and Power Efficiency To Store Two Petabytes of Critical Nasa Data

Caltech, the operational home for NASA’s Spitzer Science Center, needed a reliable and cost-effective way to store and manage rapidly growing volumes of critical infrared image data. To support more than 2 petabytes of mission data and ongoing 100 TB research additions, Caltech turned to Nexsan storage solutions, including SATABeast, SATABoy, and E-Series systems.

Nexsan implemented its E-Series disk-based storage with AutoMAID energy-saving technology, alongside existing Nexsan systems, to deliver high reliability, simplified operations, and lower power usage. The result was estimated 99.9% hardware reliability over seven years, up to 70% power savings on 50% of the storage systems, and a lower total cost of ownership for Caltech’s critical NASA data environment.

Caltech

Eugean Hacopians

Senior Systems Engineer