Developing Specifications for SonarWiz on AWS

Chesapeake Times, Vol 3 | October 2020 SonarWiz 7.7 will be the first release of SonarWiz to be officially supported on Amazon AWS. As we prepare to release this new version of the program, we have been working to develop best practices and recommendations for setting up an AWS environment that will run SonarWiz as efficiently as possible. We developed a short list of typical sidescan operations that we are using to benchmark different AWS configurations. In our initial experiments we tested 13 different AWS configurations and one laptop for comparison and measured how long they took to complete our …

Cloud Considerations for Survey Processing

Chesapeake Times, Vol 3 | October 2020 Recently we’ve seen a good deal of interest in cloud platform services and related inquiries into how SonarWiz would run in their environments. Companies stand to see a lot of benefits from these relatively low-cost, scalable, externally-managed resources, and we’ve been investigating the various opportunities and challenges involved in utilizing them. Originating mainly as internal services used by large tech companies, cloud platforms started to be offered to the public in the early 2000s. Initially utilized by customers primarily as hosting and web software delivery platforms, cloud services have seen increasing use as …