5. Cost
process
to
1 €
1 time
Storage is the main cost5 €
+
store
This is true for both public (e.g. amazon) or private (e.g. in house) cloud solutions
per year
access
0.5 €
each time
(Very) approximative computations for a 20x20 km PA+XS Pleiades product (4 Go) - based on Amazon EC2 and S3 pricing (2012)
9. Security
Data security and user privacy cannot
be guaranteed in public clouds
Majority of cloud providers are subject to governmental law (e.g. US patriot act)
11. CNES Data Center is in house solution to handle the
storage and processing needs of future scientific missions
12. Cost reduction is achieved by sharing the Data
Center capacity between missions from different
thematics - Earth Observation, Astronomy, Science, etc.
13. CNES Data Center - Predicted maximum data volumetry by 2025 (in Petaoctet)
60
50
Petaoctet
40
30
20
10
0
2012
High Performance storage
2015
2018
Disk array storage - Science, Internal projects
2021
Partner - GAIA, SWOT, etc.
2025
Long Term storage