NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab moves to OpenStack cloud platform, Fedscoop “The NASA lab responsible for building the Mars rovers and robotic probes to scout the solar system has begun using an open-source cloud platform to house its mission-critical data. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has retooled its existing hardware to support a Red Hat OpenStack cloud platform that will manage new flight projects, centralize research and reduce the need to keep […]
150,000 cloud virtual machines will help solve mysteries of the Universe, Ars Technica “OpenStack pools compute, storage, and networking equipment together, allowing all of a data center’s resources to be managed and provisioned from a single point. Scientists will be able to request whatever amount of CPU, memory, and storage space they need. They will also be able to get a virtual machine with the requested amounts within 15 minutes. […]
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, […]
NASA Spinoff 2012 Features New Space Tech Bettering Your Life Today NASA Spinoff 2012 (PDF) “Curry agrees: “In the future, you can envision almost all computing being done in the cloud, much of which could be powered by OpenStack. I think that NASA will need to receive significant credit for that in the history books. What we’ve been able to do is unbelievable– especially when you remember that it all […]
How the government can turbocharge private-sector innovation, Gigaom “Traditionally, NASA attempts to commercialize and otherwise transfer the good work done in its research labs to the public by two means: directly auctioning its patents to the private sector, or maintaining the patents but actively choosing not to enforce them if doing so would impede innovation. NASA claims over 1,200 success stories in this regard, and there’s plenty to show for […]
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 […]
