{"id":2173,"date":"2012-06-18T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2298234"},"modified":"2012-06-18T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T14:28:00","slug":"cloud-computing-nasa-forsakes-openstack-for-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-nasa-forsakes-openstack-for-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: NASA Forsakes OpenStack for Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has retreated from OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing platform it helped RackSpace launch by contributing its Nebula (Nova) compute controller.<br \/>\nApparently NASA doesn\u2019t want to play developer anymore. Instead, it\u2019s on an \u201cIT reform\u201d tear that started a year ago.<br \/>\nThis reform has a lot to do with NASA watching how it spends the taxpayer\u2019s dime and using commercial cloud services when appropriate.<br \/>\nAh, but the sweet irony is \u2013 according to a June 8 blog posting by NASA CIO Linda Cureton \u2013 that the agency has \u201cshifted to a new web services model that uses Amazon Web Services for cloud-based enterprise infrastructure. This cloud-based model supports a wide variety of web applications and sites using an interoperable, standards-based and secure environment while providing almost a million dollars in cost savings each year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2298234\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has retreated from OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing platform it helped RackSpace launch by contributing its Nebula (Nova) compute controller.<br \/>\nApparently NASA doesn\u2019t want to play developer anymore. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}