National Institute of Geophysic and Volcanology

Company Biography

The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, known in acronym as INGV, is the Italian research institute responsible for the study of geophysical and volcanological phenomena and the management of the respective national monitoring networks for seismic and volcanic phenomena.

The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology has become one of the largest European research institutions in the field of Earth Sciences. INGV carries out scientific research in the fields of geophysics and geochemistry, seismology, volcanology and space meteorology.

In addition to its normal research activities, the INGV has the task, in agreement with the Civil Protection, of the seismic and volcanic surveillance of the Italian areas. In particular, the dept. of Roma 1 carries out basic and applied research from the laboratory to the field, and perform data acquisition and modeling of large datasets, and performs data collection and scenarios during earthquake, volcano and environmnental emergencies.

The Challenge

The Roma 1 dept. of National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology needed to consolidate the backup of different research and emergency groups in a single high-capacity repository that could grant high-density data storage, flexibility and support to various access protocols and cloud backup.