Microsoft Azure will use satellites to improve cloud data

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Published onSeptember 14, 2020

published onSeptember 14, 2020

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Microsoftinvested heavily in its business cloud platform, Azure. The last thing we reported about it, the software giant wasbuilding on its security features.

The platform’s evolution was extremely fast culminating with gettingtwo new big customersand a huge agreement with the U.S. Government.

Nevertheless,Microsoftstill aims even higher by trying to implementAzureon a Spanish satellite system.

What does the cloud has to do with satellites?

For starters, Amazon has a similar service with their AWS Ground Station system. With this technology, Amazon gives their clients control over their satellite data by downlinking them straight to an AWS data center.

Microsoft filed an FCC request to test the connection between a Spanish imaging satellite named DEIMOS-2 to two ground stations at its data center from Quincy in Washington.

The software giant aims to demonstrate that they can download satellite data to the Azure Cloud for immediateprocessing.

If the demonstrations result in significant market interest,Microsoftwill file an application for regular earth station authority with the International Bureau (IB) to support future commercial operations, and that application will include a request for U.S. market access for DEIMOS-2

, specifiesMicrosoftin its FCC application.

The demonstration is expected to run around the days preceding and during the Ignite conference starting on September 22.

This system reduces the time it takes to analyze satellite data from hours to minutes or even just seconds also saving customers a big percentage of the costs implied for the process.

IfMicrosoft‘s test will succeed, we will enter a new era of bigdata communication.

What do you think about the new Microsoft Azure move? Leave your thoughts in the Comments section below.

Source:CNBC

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