Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack, Forbes “Backed by Intel and Dell, Mirantis has emerged as a clear leader in the OpenStack world heavily promoting and supporting the adoption of the platform originally developed by NASA and Rackspace.” NASA CIO Dumps NASA-Developed Open Stack, earlier post “NASA’s prestige and participation has been a selling point for advocates of the OpenStack open source cloud project, […]

IT Reform at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA CIO “Finally, NASA shifted to a new web services model that uses Amazon Web Services for cloud-based enterprise infrastructure. This cloud-based model supports a wide variety of web applications and sites using an interoperable, standards-based, and secure environment while providing almost a million dollars in cost savings each year. NASA Drops OpenStack For Amazon Cloud “Ray O’Brien, acting CIO at […]

Gov 2.0: NASA Readies Mission-Oriented Cloud Computing, Information Week “Chris Kemp, former CIO of NASA’s Ames Research Center, has been the project leader on Nebula. Kemp was recently named CTO for IT across the space agency, and Cureton says Kemp will bring “focus” to the broader implementation of cloud computing and other emerging technologies across NASA.”