Can you build a flying robot brain? 3D Robotics can, and they’re using NAS to help.

Need to build a flying robot brain? Not a simple task. John Cherbini knows just how complicated the development process is. He’s a VP at 3D Robotics, and we asked him how they’ve dealt with the immense data involved, while boosting collaboration and productivity, so they can focus on what they do best; building brains for autonomous vehicles.

Like Seagate, 3D Robotics supports open source platforms. The company was founded and based upon an open source community called DIY drones. This community has continued producing value for 3D Robotics’ customers. By being an open source community from both a hardware and software perspective, the company has gained higher levels of engagement from their partners. Thus, they have been more innovative, have offered additional advanced functions and have been more reliable and robust in how they offer products.

Managing and analyzing massive amounts of raw data is essential for continued innovation in the robotics industry. Cherbini explained,

I always like to say that the flying robots now are a solved problem. We can make robots fly; we can make robots drive; we have unmanned vehicles that can make their own decisions. Now it’s about the data that you collect.

3D Robotics implemented a Seagate 8-bay rackmount device. According to Cherbini, this business network solution allowed them to consolidate their current small business storage and save their upsteam bandwidth instead of sending all of their data through the internet to their public cloud storage accounts.

Furthermore, this allowed the company to quickly share data and analytics to geographically dispersed locations, resulting in more efficient and effective collaboration.

Upon initial implementation, 3D Robotics tested this business NAS solution against their public cloud storage options, as well as their current NAS local network server. Cherbani reported that the 8-back rackmount device was, “effectively twice as fast as our existing local NAS devices, and far and above the easiest to use.”

Finally, as a small business 3D Robotics’ employees use a number of different platforms, including Windows, Android and iOS. By using Seagate Sdrive, they were essentially able to “mount” the NAS drive onto any device for easy file sharing via remote access, all without compromising the security of their private network.

3D Robotics is an excellent example of a growing small business that benefited from the improved efficiency, performance and scalability of Business NAS solutions.

Watch the full interview below:

 

Related: What is Network Attached Storage?

2014-12-18T15:08:24+00:00

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