Nov 28, 2011 – Active Circle and DEIMOS Space partner to respond to the growing needs of the satellite imaging sector. DEIMOS Space will incorporate the Active Circle system as the storage management part of its complete solutions for capturing, processing and preserving data from observation satellites.

DEIMOS Space, based in Madrid, Spain, is a subsidiary of the Elecnor Group. DEIMOS Space provides all the expertise for engineering and development of operational Ground Segment Systems for space missions.

“As part of our solution, we need a storage system capable of storing multi-Petabyte imaging data sets transparently on disk and tape, to handle redundancy for long-term data preservation. This system must be able to cope with technology migration over time. Active Circle meets these requirements” says Diego Lozano Garcia, Head of Ground Segment, Infrastructure Division at DEIMOS Space.

“The satellite imaging sector has very specific requirements for storing very large data sets over periods of 10 to 15 years or more. These are not standard storage requirements. We are happy to combine our storage management technology with DEIMOS Space expertise to deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions to the satellite imaging customers” – says Philippe Boyon, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Active Circle.

The Active Circle storage and archiving system is a software-based, virtualized file storage environment designed to store very large data sets in the long-term. It provides a global and scalable file system distributed over multiple storage nodes, with replication and integrity features to preserve the data over time. It is software-based and independent from the storage technologies; built-in data migration policies are used to move the data sets from obsolete to new storage devices without any disruption for the users or applications.

About Active Circle 

Created in 2002, Active Circle develops and markets an innovative software-based solution that responds to the need for storing, preserving, and managing large volumes of digital content. The Active Circle software has been designed for organizations that manage video content, images, scientific and technical data, to help them better control the lifecycle of their data while at the same time keeping down the costs of storage ownership and administration.

About DEIMOS Space

DEIMOS is a system engineering company employing around 500 people in Portugal and Spain. It has a proven track record in the space sector (which is its core business), being today one of the leading suppliers of space systems in Europe. DEIMOS specializes in the development of engineering studies and turnkey solutions in the areas of Mission Analysis, Systems Engineering, and critical software for Space and Ground Segments, including Real-Time applications. DEIMOS has also become a provider and operator of Earth Observation data received from its own proprietary satellite, DEIMOS-1, and is now developing a second generation spacecraft for high resolution imaging.

www.deimos-space.com