Success Story: Gamaya
Success Story: Gamaya
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Success Story: Gamaya
Swiss Start-Up fights food shortage with Wabion's Expertise
Over 70% lower infrastructure costs with ten times higher operational efficiency. For the data analytics platform Gamaya, Wabion’s Google Cloud Platform (GCP) know-how bears fruit for sustainable agriculture. Read the full success story on the collaboration between Gamaya, Wabion and Google Cloud.
„We probably wouldn’t have thought of this possibility without Wabion’s input. It’s all about choosing the right team members. And in our industry, a team is made up of choosing partners and products and infrastructure and people. It’s all together. We win as a team.“
Israel Kehat
CTO, Gamaya
“Know your land” – for sustainable agriculture
The Swiss start-up Gamaya is revolutionizing agriculture from the air: drones equipped with hyperspectral cameras scan industrial farms covering more than 25,000 football fields and deliver tens of thousands of images providing information about the condition of the fields and enabling targeted measures (pest control, fertilizer use, etc.).
In particular, developing countries benefit from the technology in order to meet their rising food needs in a sustainable way. As Gamaya reached its limits with the previous cloud provider for the storage, processing and evaluation of the huge amounts of data, Google Cloud came into play.“
If a data payload that used to take 10 minutes to process only takes a minute on Google Cloud, I don’t need to pay for 10 minutes on a virtual machine. It’s not about hardware profile differences; Google Cloud simply has a clearly better infrastructure than our previous provider.”
Israel Kehat
CTO, Gamaya
“GCP on demand” – faster, more efficient and more cost-saving
The collaboration between Gamaya, Google Cloud and Google Cloud Premier Partner Wabion started as part of a kickstart program made possible by Google Cloud – and hit the mark:
- Thanks to the dynamic provision of resources with GCP Compute Engine, development projects only took 30 days instead of 12 months
- The flexibility, scalability and ease of use of GCP resulted in a tenfold increase in operational efficiency
- Other GCP products such as Cloud GPUs (for the stitching of images into precision maps) led to 70% lower infrastructure costs
- The use of Preemptible VMs initiated on the advice of Wabion led to further cost savings of 80% in the provision of resources
“From the very beginning, we were struck not only by Gamaya’s revolutionary technology, but also its determination to harness the full potential of Google Cloud. Thanks to this mindset, we were able to leverage our expertise for Gamaya in the most efficient way. We look forward to continuing our productive collaboration.”
Samuel Pasquier
Managing Director, Wabion Switzerland
Read the entire Success Story and learn more about how Gamaya intends to contribute to a sustainable agriculture that feeds more than billion people in 2050.