Turkish Land Registry and Cadastre Opts for Western Digital and Qsan

Organization
The General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre, also known as the Geomatic Department, is tasked with keeping the cadastral (ownership and land registry) records for the Republic of Turkey.

To this end, the department developed the TAKBIS project to maintain, update and electronically deliver this valuable information to local governments, public institutions and research organizations throughout the country

• Challenge: The Geomatic Department’s existing storage infrastructure was reaching maximum capacity and needed upgrading to accommodate the growing high-resolution photographic archive and ensure safekeeping of valuable cadastral information.
• Solution: An open, flexible storage solution based on Western Digital Ultrastar Data60 hybrid storage platform and QSAN XCubeSAN unified storage controller.
• Results: The combined solution makes it easy for the department to meet capacity and performance needs without busting the budget. This joint solution delivers performance, is easy to scale on demand and provides higher storage reliability.

Safeguarding Valuable Data
The data stored within TAKBIS includes maps and photographs of roads, canals and pipelines of gas and water throughout the country. This data is considered to be of the highest value as it would be expensive to regenerate. It was originally created at expense and effort using aircraft, drones and mobile camera cars. With so much time and effort invested in collecting this information, safekeeping the digital content created is crucial. That is why it was important for the department to find a storage solution to cope with their photographic archive. The department needed a flexible, reliable and easy-to-scale storage infrastructure to maintain high-resolution images and ensure they could deliver that information rapidly.

Solutuin: Western Digital, QSAN and DepoTurk
To address these challenges and save precious time, the Geomatic Department turned to its technology partner, DepoTurk Storage Limited Company for assistance. It is an IT system integrator and solution provider of network and communication solutions to business and government customers in the Republic of Turkey. Its experts designed a storage architecture based on the XCubeSAN unified storage controller and the Western Digital Ultrastar Data60 hybrid storage platform.

QSAN strives to build enterprise-class storage systems that provide performance, secure data protection and data management. The XCubeSAN provides a storage system that is simple, secure, scalable and reliable. In addition, it brings a multitude of enterprise features to make storage applications more efficient, including SSD read-write cache (QCache), auto-tiering (QTering), snapshot (QSnap), local volume clone (QClone) and features to improve data acceleration and protection.

“It is an honor for DepoTurk to deliver this unique Western Digital- and QSAN-based storage solution to the government of the Republic of Turkey,” said Serkan Sökelli, general director, DepoTurk.

“he TAKBIS Project is important to the development of our country and there are great expectations in the services it provides. The Western Digital and QSAN storage solution provided by DepoTurk provides accurate, reliable and quickly accessible land registry and cadastral information when needed,” said director of Geomatic department

Western Digital Better Together
To improve the reliability and efficiency of this storage infrastructure, DepoTurk selected the Ultrastar Data60 hybrid storage platform filled with Ultrastar HelioSeal HDDs. It includes technologies not found in any other storage platform: patented IsoVibe and ArcticFlow. IsoVibe reduces vibration-induced performance degradation, while ArcticFlow overcomes the cooling issues by introducing cool air into the middle of the platform. Combining these technologies with HelioSeal HDDs provides a solution designed for long-term reliability and reduced drive failures, enabling the safekeeping of all the digital content stored on the platform.

 Immediate Results
The combined solution of XCubeSAN with Ultrastar Data60 provided the Geomatic Department with the ability to store the petabytes of captured images and metadata required for the TAKBIS project in a low maintenance solution that provides performance and durability. The Geomatic Department is happy with the solution DepoTurk delivered and within the first month they were able to scan, transcribe and store 25,564,912 title deed records in Ottoman script into the new digital environment.

How QSAN and Western Digital work together to enhance data storage infrastructure