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NASA launches private cloud
All NASA personnel can take advantage of their agency's private cloud now, announced the agency in an Oct. 18 blog post.
NASA Cloud Services will remain in pre-release until an operational readiness review is completed in the coming weeks, but NASA workers can nonetheless start signing up for 100 GB storage accounts and get a virtual private network on the Ames Internet Exchange.
NASA has said it developed its cloud--based on what it calls its "Nebula" platform--as an alternative to data centers and a means to rapidly provision resources. Each Nebula container holds up to 30,000 CPU cores, or 30 petabytes, says a NASA article from earlier this year.
For more:
- read the blog post announcing the availability of NASA cloud services
- read more about Nebula at the NASA CIO website
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