NASA’s Nebula cloud computing software key for new open-source initiative, OpenStack
July 20th, 2010 - 1:17 am ICT by BNO NewsWASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — NASA on Monday announced that its Nebula cloud computing platform was selected as a contributor for OpenStack, a newly-launched open source cloud computing initiative.
OpenStack, the first large-scale open source cloud project of its kind, is expected to gather significant momentum in the cloud and open source communities. The initiative pull together more than 25 companies to play a key role in driving cloud computing standards for interoperability and portability.
Cloud computing is a way to deliver computing resources, such as software, storage and virtual computing power, as services over the Internet. NASA launched the Nebula cloud computing platform to provide agency researchers with a range of services powerful enough to manage NASA’s large-scale scientific data sets.
Nebula offers unprecedented compute capability, storage and bandwidth to users at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, and Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
“We hope that OpenStack will form the foundation of a new open source cloud ecosystem,” said NASA chief technology officer for Information Technology Chris C. Kemp. “With Nebula technology at the core of OpenStack, NASA will be uniquely positioned to drive standards that will ensure products and services powered by OpenStack will meet federal interoperability, portability, and security requirements.”
“Participating in OpenStack will allow NASA to tap into a well-established community of open source developers and enable us to benefit from crowd-sourced development efforts,” said Raymond O’Brien, Nebula’s program manager.
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