Reactive Data’s “'Tiger Product Group” specialises in all aspects of advanced data storage. The Tiger Group is able to draw on a 30-year history of data storage product and subsystem design and manufacture, enabling us to deliver ISO9000 compliant solutions for government, defence, aerospace, process control, telecommunications, transport, air traffic control, media production and other critical applications.

The Tiger Group’s COTS products include a range of Solid State Disks (Flash and SRAM based), Solid State Recorders and Disk Emulators for use in sensitive applications where speed, ruggedness, reliability, predictability and data security are the dominant concerns. A large number of these products, hard disk, tape and floppy disk emulators, have been used to replace older products in critical legacy systems operated by various government agencies and their primary contractors. Enhanced SSD and FFD products, with industry standard high performance interfaces, are used in new systems where conventional solutions are inadequate. Rugged 2.5” and 3.5" SSD and FFD variants are operated in military aircraft as mission memory, for Radar/Laser data acquisition, or as surveillance recorders.Other applications include IFE and digital map systems.

These same Fast Flash Disks replace conventional IDE and SCSI hard disk products as drop-in replacements using the original host’s software drivers. They feature rapid access, total predictability, very high reliability, low power consumption, wide environmental tolerance and totally silent operation.

For ground station use at the extreme high performance, random access end, our "Quickdata" K4 solid state disk range allows data rates as high as 350MBytes/second, sufficient to saturate the PCI or Fibre interfaces, for which software and hardware support is available. This high density battery and disk backed SRAM based SSD product provides these high transfer rates irrespective of record length, as a cost efficient alternative to RAID in situations where bandwidth and short record length is more critical than capacity.

Other new products include the ESP-1 high performance embedded system platform SBC, with an open Linux architecture and uncommitted Xilinx FPGA, aimed at interface conversion, fast data acquisition, data format translation and data storage product emulation. The open architecture makes this ideal for lifetime support by the defence industry client.

In addition to the standard product range, the Tiger Group offers support to Post Design Service (PDS) groups in the primary defence contractors or government agencies. Typical tasks undertaken include the redesign and replacement of obsolete disk and/or tape controllers for legacy systems, to allow the use of current COTS technology, or the adaptation of interfaces to recognised industry or defence standards..