Nebula: NASA Moves Into The Cloud

Announcing the Launch of IaaS, powered by Nebula
“Today, the pre-release of NASA Cloud Services, powered by Nebula is available to all NASA personnel. Plans call for the pre-release to be seamlessly transitioned to production after the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) is completed in the coming weeks.”
NASA wants to run space missions, not data centers, ComputerWorld
“NASA CTO Chris Kemp said he believes that compute resources are fundamentally a utility, no different than electric power. And “we don’t own power plants right now – we don’t own other services that are provided as utilities,” he said “I don’t see why NASA needs to operate any infrastructure,” said Kemp. “We can build space probes, we can build deep space networks, we can stay out on the frontiers, where the American public wants us to be and not spend over $1 billion a year on it infrastructure.”
OpenStack: An Open Cloud Initiative Makes its 1st Release, ReadWrite Cloud
“It’s official. Open Stack has made its first release. It’s a major moment for the nascent open cloud initiative, a service that combines the Rackspace object storage capabilities with NASA’s Nebula, the open computing effort from the U.S federal space agency.”