GeoEye Project Named Among 100 Most Innovative Corporate IT Solutions for 2007

Next-Generation Platform for Geospatial Intelligence
Winner: GeoEye
Project Lead: Ray Helmering, Vice President of Product Engineering
Project Description: Set to launch in April 2008, GeoEye-1 is a next-generation high-resolution remote sensing satellite that will process in excess of 5TB of satellite imagery per day. To provide reliability and scalability, GeoEye deployed Appistry EAF to virtualize its applications across more than 50 Linux-based commodity machines. As a result, GeoEye was able to focus on honing its image processing algorithms, while the Appistry platform economically processed each image in the 6-minute window required by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and other customers.