NASA gets cloud experience through Nebula

InformationWeek: Under CIO Vivek Kundra, the federal government has launched Apps.gov, an online marketplace of software where federal agencies can find what they need, sometimes at bargain prices. But behind the scenes, it's made a much bigger bet on cloud computing. It's NASA's Nebula cloud at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.

NASA sometimes serves as the poster child of how the federal government tends to build out data centers. It's gone from 498 ten years ago to over 1,200 today, and the number will double again if a more effective means of supplying the computing needs of federal agencies isn't found. Kundra has made only a few, brief references to NASA's project.. Read Article

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