Case Study: Keystone Aerial Surveys Boosts Data Storage and Processing with Razor Technology

How Razor Technology Boosted Keystone Aerial Surveys, Inc. Specialized Data Storage

Keystone Aerial Surveys, a Philadelphia-based provider of airborne imagery and related GPS/measurement data, was struggling to keep up with explosive growth after moving to digital image capture. Its existing NAS and server environment could not handle the volume of very large image files, and processing throughput had become sluggish as the company expanded geographically and added more cameras.

Razor Technology performed a Workflow Assessment and recommended a new long-term storage and processing architecture centered on EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS, along with faster CPUs, local SSDs, and workflow improvements. Razor Technology’s solution boosted capacity from 250TB to 600TB, cut disk read/write event durations by 90% and 95%, increased peak IOPS by 240%, and reduced average end-to-end image processing time from 15 minutes to 5 minutes.

Keystone Aerial Surveys

David Day

Executive Vice President