Nature Fresh Farms Attempts at Sustainable Growth with Dell

Nature Fresh Farms accelerates sustainable growth with faster, scalable access to high-resolution video and evolution toward AI, robotics, and automation.

Challenges

As greenhouse acreage doubled in two years at Nature Fresh Farms, IT was running out of space to store video generated by greenhouse cameras and automation. 

Initiatives

The company consolidated video storage and file shares onto Dell EMC Isilon to provide fast, streamlined access to data vital to better decision-making about creating optimal growing conditions.

Dell EMC PowerScale All-Flash scale-out NAS delivers the analytics performance and extreme concurrency at scale to consistently feed the most data-hungry analytic algorithms. This simple, flexible solution eliminates I/O bottlenecks to accelerate cycles of learning while meeting regulatory and enterprise policy requirements.

Dell EMC PowerScale delivers the data needed for high-performance machine learning and deep learning. With superior capabilities for low latency, high throughput, and massively parallel I/O, Dell EMC PowerScale is the ideal storage complement to GPU accelerated compute for AI workloads, effectively compressing the time needed for training and testing analytical models for multi-petabyte data sets. As an added benefit, PowerScale All-Flash storage can be added to an existing Isilon cluster to accelerate and unlock the value of massive amounts of unstructured data.

Results

With this solution, Nature Fresh Farms have the ability to analyze data collected from automation in the greenhouse to analyze diseases and pests within the greenhouse. The data is collected, analyzed by AI, and checked by our data scientists, allowing them to make real-time changes to growing conditions and release ‘Good Bugs’ needed to stop the ‘Bad Bugs’. This data is all organized inside the Isilon.