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| | | NASA |  | | NASA uses Xerox DocuShare® Software | | NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California is the hub of the Mars Rover Program. But before they could set out for Mars, they had to find a way to share mission critical information here on earth. What they needed during the planning stage was a web-based system for daily storage and exchange of planning documents. Additionally, they would need the same system after the Rovers landed on Mars, so scientists could share the data that would be coming in daily from millions of miles away.
Xerox analyzed the mission’s requirements and determined NASA needed an on-line storage and retrieval system that could work across multiple platforms. Xerox had a solution, Xerox DocuShare® Enterprise Content Management software. DocuShare runs on a central Solaris server and supports users across all platforms, including Windows and Linux. It provides the perfect on-line space to exchange live data 24 hours a day, so more than 1000 NASA personnel, including scientists, engineers and university teams across the country can have simultaneous access to more than 100,000 files and 100 gigabytes of organized mission data.
DocuShare provides real-time access to data, thus eliminating bottlenecks caused by working on multiple systems. NASA teams outside the Mars Rover project have also used it and currently more than 5,000 people on active JPL projects are utilizing the benefits of Xerox DocuShare. Today, DocuShare houses 700 gigabytes of data and manages more than 300,000 files for the space program. | |
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