CloudFerro

CloudFerro is an emerging European leader in sovereign cloud computing services. It delivers and manages cloud computing solutions for the European space industry, climate research, and science. CloudFerro has built its core competencies through cooperation with European industry leaders. Today, CloudFerro is an expert in the storage and processing of large datasets, including multi‑petabyte repositories of Earth observation satellite data.

CloudFerro offers user‑tailored, cost‑efficient IaaS/PaaS solutions across public, private, and hybrid cloud models. CloudFerro’s technology stack is built on open-source technologies (OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph).

CloudFerro’s solutions are used by commercial industry leaders, public organisations, and scientific institutions across various market sectors processing big data. Major clients include the European Space Agency (ESA), EUMETSAT, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Mercator Ocean International, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), EGI, and many others.

 

CloudFerro’s key achievements in the space sector include:

• A reference data source for the Copernicus Space Programme and provision of free access to data and services from the Copernicus Sentinel missions

• Development and maintenance of the CREODIAS and WEkEO Copernicus DIAS platforms

• Development and maintenance of the CODE-DE platform (Earth observation platform for Germany)

• Implementation and maintenance of the Copernicus Climate Data Store (hybrid cloud for ECMWF)

• Dedicated cloud infrastructure for the Destination Earth Data Lake project

 

Offer for the FIERCE stakeholders:

CloudFerro is a cloud infrastructure partner within the FIERCE ecosystem and is ready to support hackathons, acceleration programmes, and other initiatives of FIERCE innovation intermediaries by providing access to:

• Space/EO-tailored IaaS and PaaS services,

• AI/ML training environments (GPU, HPC, storage)

• Security & reliability services

• EO data platforms and compute-to-data 101s

• Guidance on entering European space data & scaling cloud-based solutions