BAE Systems: TeraStarsystem, Government-Grade Storage Solution for Commercial Customers

BAE Systems plc launched its TeraStarsystem for commercial customers.

The system is a storage solution engineered to meet the next-generation government and military big storage requirements while accommodating the cost and size needs of SMBs and cloud-based storage providers.

“We originally developed the TeraStar storage system to fit the government’s strict cost, size, weight, and capacity requirements that legacy commercial products were not designed to meet,” said Andrew Russette, product manager, BAE Systems. “Now we’re offering this compact and power-efficient solution to commercial businesses at a cost per terabyte that is roughly one quarter of the industry average.”

The design enables it to store volumes of data with minimal operational expense by requiring nominal physical space and using less power than traditional big storage systems. The system’s scalable, dense storage capacity also delivers a competitive advantage to cloud-based storage providers by reducing the overall cost per terabyte of storage capacity. To store the same amount of data, other single system commercial standard offerings typically require twice the rack space, utilize twice the power, and require more cooling. In addition, the TeraStar system’s design is compatible with storage media devices enabling storage flexibility.

BAE Systems developed the TeraStar solution to accommodate the massive amount of data produced by next-generation sensors. The company has leveraged this internally developed solution to support sensors such as ARGUS, the gigapixel-plus wide-area persistent surveillance sensor that BAE Systems created for the U.S. government.