Nebula, NASA, and OpenStack, Open NASA “Recently, on May 15, NASA announced a new cloud computing strategy for the Agency at the Uptime Institute’s symposium in Santa Clara, CA. Among its facets is a reduction to our OpenStack development efforts in favor of becoming a “smart consumer” of commercial cloud services.” IT Reform at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA CIO Blog “Improved investment management practices, the use of […]

The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything, Wired “So [Federal CIO Vivek] Kundra summoned Chris Kemp to the White House, and he eventually used NASA Nebula to launch USAspending.gov — a site that shared the government’s spending with the world at large — while drawing up plans to expand the platform to other agencies as well. The problem was that certain U.S. lawmakers and NASA […]

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 […]

NASA’s Nebula Cloud Computing Technology To Play Key Role In New Open Source Initiative “The core technology developed for NASA’s Nebula cloud computing platform has been selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open source cloud computing initiative. It will pull together more than 25 companies to play a key role in driving cloud computing standards for interoperability and portability.” Rackspace and NASA open-source partnership could spur innovation, GCN […]

NASA and Japan Announce Cloud Computing Collaboration “NASA and Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII) have announced plans to explore interoperability opportunities between NASA’s Nebula Cloud Computing Platform and Japan’s NII Cloud Computing Platform. “The interoperability between an NII Cloud and the NASA Nebula Cloud is a combined effort toward the creation of an International academic-information infrastructure, which is essential in promoting the global cooperation of research and education,” said […]

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.”

NASA’s Nebula rolls out in the cloud, Federal News Radio “Nebula is 18 months old and is literally rolling along. Agencies across the federal government are exploring cloud computing, but NASA’s work in the area could be become the poster child for its use. Their Nebula Cloud Computing Platform at the Ames Research Center in California is being touted as a possible model for others. Chris Kemp, chief information officer […]

NASA Nebula: Enabling Participatory Exploration Through Open Data APIs “One of the projects Nebula has been very excited to support enables the public to view and explore the surfaces of the Moon and Mars in unprecedented resolution in both Google Earth and Microsoft World Wide Telescope. The NASA team responsible for these projects leveraged Nebula to perform sophisticated large-scale image processing and hosting of hundreds of thousands of high-resolution images […]