By leveraging NodeShift’s decentralized compute, Earthvisionz can now process and store geospatial data with unparalleled speed and reliability. Imagine a response team accessing real-time satellite imagery to coordinate natural disaster actions. With NodeShift, Earthvisionz ensures that these teams have the data they need, when they need it, without worrying about downtime or bottlenecks.
Background
About NodeShift
NodeShift specializes in providing flexible, scalable compute infrastructure (including CPU and GPU virtual machines) to customers who need to quickly deploy and manage applications as well as a no-code AI cloud platform that enables one-click deployment of AI agents and LLMs. With a commitment to openness and security, NodeShift’s solutions are designed to be easy to adopt, while offering enterprise-grade performance and reliability.
The Challenge
Earthvisionz and ATAK Hosting
Earthvisionz provides 24/7 situational awareness and data visualization services for emergency situations. As part of their offerings, they host a specialized instance of ATAK - an advanced geospatial, real-time collaboration tool. Their challenge was to efficiently store and access volumes of geospatial, satellite, and real-time data from a range of external feeds. Earthvisionz needed a compute and storage provider that could handle both high throughput and low latency for users interacting with critical data.
The solution
NodeShift’s full-fledged cloud solution:
Compute and GPU Integration: NodeShift’s compute platform enables organizations to spin up CPU or GPU-based virtual machines. This is ideal for data-intensive tasks like geospatial analytics, machine learning, and large-scale data processing.
Hot Storage with S3 Compatibility: S3 gateway interface allows quick and seamless adoption with existing S3-compatible tools. NodeShift’s platform makes it simple to attach buckets to applications, microservices, or data pipelines.
Decentralized Architecture: NodeShift’s global network ensures redundancy and improved performance by distributing data across multiple nodes. This is particularly beneficial for organizations that require high availability.
Implementation Highlights
Easy Deployment: Through NodeShift’s dashboard, customers can create, manage, and connect storage buckets to compute resources within minutes.
Automated Scaling: NodeShift automatically scales as data grows, removing the overhead of capacity planning.
End-to-End Security: NodeShift encrypts data at rest and in transit, while NodeShift employs strict security best practices across its compute infrastructure.
Results and Benefits
Improved Performance for Earthvisionz ATAK
Low Latency, High Availability: By hosting geospatial data on NodeShift and running analytics workloads on NodeShift’s compute VMs, Earthvisionz can reliably access and process large data sets in real time.
Scalable Infrastructure: As Earthvisionz expands its user base for emergency operations, the combination of NodeShift compute and storage can scale horizontally with minimal administrative effort.
Looking Ahead
The success of this partnership points to a growing demand for combined decentralized storage and flexible compute solutions. With NodeShift’s straightforward deployment model, organizations of all sizes can take advantage of reliable cloud for critical workloads - whether for real-time collaboration platforms like ATAK or for large data repositories supporting complex analytics.
