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Redesigning IT Infrastructure to Support Space Exploration Missions

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The Client

Our client is a research and development center that hosts critical control operations for major space exploration initiatives.

Space Exploration

The Client

Our client is a research and development center that hosts critical control operations for major space exploration initiatives.

Our client, an aerospace research and development center, faced rising operational costs as the computing side of its IT infrastructure struggled to keep pace with the demands of mission data. To overcome these challenges, it needed to maximize compute density and memory while enhancing reliability to prevent service interruptions for critical mission control functions. The research center chose BlueAlly as a trusted partner to transform its IT infrastructure, resulting in cost savings, improved compute density, and operational continuity, enabling our client to support the mission-critical needs of NASA’s space exploration projects. Since this initial engagement’s success, the research center has maintained an ongoing relationship with BlueAlly, reflecting our dedication to tailoring best-in-class solutions to our clients’ crucial technology requirements.

The Problem

The research center needed to redesign its IT infrastructure to serve NASA’s data processing needs for telemetry, flight, and landing operations. However, it required additional staff to complete such a technologically complex project within a short time frame. Aside from maximizing its virtual machine density, robust disaster recovery was also essential to ensure uninterrupted operations and communications in case of an outage at the research center’s primary data center.

The BlueAlly Solution

Our engineers initially collaborated with the client’s key stakeholders to understand how to customize an IT infrastructure solution to its mission-critical operations and budgetary needs. After weighing numerous options, we chose a mix of HPE’s composable infrastructure platform and Intel’s advanced memory solution. These solutions created a stable environment that maximized reliability and computing power for processing immense volumes of mission-critical data. We also strengthened the research center’s disaster recovery capabilities at a secondary site, providing automated failover and data replication mechanisms to ensure operational continuity in the event of an outage at its primary site. Additionally, HPE’s platform provided our client with a silicon root of trust. This feature ensures the integrity of infrastructure hardware by verifying that the firmware running on the system is trusted, adding robust security capabilities essential to reliable operations.

The Results

BlueAlly successfully redesigned the compute side of our client’s IT infrastructure, with HPE’s solution maximizing the research center’s virtual machine density to enhance its data processing capabilities. Intel’s memory solution then empowered our client by increasing its memory footprint per server blade at a much lower cost than traditional memory. This combined solution also enhanced our client’s disaster recovery capabilities by offering faster data access and better data persistence even in the event of an outage. By combining these solutions to meet the research center’s specialized requirements, we transformed the compute portion of our client’s IT infrastructure while lowering operational costs, enabling it to support NASA’s groundbreaking aerospace missions.

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Cost Savings

Maximized virtual machine density and memory while reducing costs through a customized solution.

Computing Power

Computing Power

Optimized our client’s IT infrastructure to enhance computing power.

Disaster Recovery

Resilience

Enhanced disaster recovery to maintain data integrity, even during outages.

Continuity

Operational Continuity

Ensured reliable operations by strengthening security and resilience.