Modern battlefields are not only tanks and artillery, but above all terabytes of data transmitted from drones, satellites and ground sensors.
Whoever processes it faster wins. The problem arises erstwhile the enemy cuts off communication with the outside world. CloudFerro – a Polish cloud infrastructure supplier who cooperates with the European Space Agency on a regular basis, comes with the solution. The company has just presented the Bastion system.
Bastion: A cloud cut off from the world
CloudFerro decided to virtually pack the cloud of computing into a mobile container that can be transported straight to the operating area. The solution called Bastion was created for the Armed Forces of Poland and services liable for critical infrastructure.
The most crucial feature of the Polish strategy is its full independence. Bastion can operate and process operational data in an environment completely cut off from the external network (under conditions of blocked, limited or temporarily unavailable communications).
What does this mobile server area do?
Download and integrate data from satellites, unmanned aircraft (drones) and field sensors. It processes them locally utilizing built-in tools of artificial intelligence. It aggregates data from multiple operating domains, allowing commanders to rapidly analyse the situation and make decisions without waiting for data transfer to the hundreds of kilometres distant headquarters.
Space Technologies in Military Service
CloudFerro's entry into the military sector is no coincidence. It is now 1 of the most crucial players in the European large-scale data processing market. The company has its own infrastructure in European data centres and is responsible, among others, for providing immense satellite data collections for Copernicus.
The construction of systems resistant to failures and operating on delicate data for the European Space Agency (ESA) or the European Organisation for the Exploration of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is an perfect experimental ground before creating military stricte systems. In the face of expanding threats, the possession of a sovereign digital infrastructure created in Poland, which the military can usage without looking at abroad technological corporations, becomes part of the state's right.
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