CLOUD COMPUTING Busting Myths and Enabling Adoption at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tom Soderstrom IT CTO Khawaja Shams Mission Cloud Expert
Jun 13, 2015
CLOUD COMPUTINGBusting Myths and Enabling Adoption at
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tom SoderstromIT CTO
Khawaja ShamsMission Cloud Expert
MISSION CRITICAL
Got Redundancy?
Got 9’s?
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SECURED UPLINK PLANNING
SECURITY
CAN CLOUDS BE SAFER?
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT• JPL has multiple cloud computing accounts
• Goal 1: Limit access wherever possible
• Prevent accidents
• Minimize exposure
• Only use authorized services
• Goal 2: Empower IT Security and IT Consumers!
• Hardened Images
• Bird’s-eye-view of every account
VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD
ECONOMICAL
MISSION OPS COMPUTERS
Missed deadline
InfrastructureCost $
time
LargeCapital
Expenditure
OpportunityCost
PredictedDemand
TraditionalHardware
ActualDemand
AutomatedVirtualization
JPL Mission
0
2.5
5
7.5
10
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BURSTY OPERATIONS CYCLE
100 Hours of computation cost the same on 1 machine for 100 hours or 100 machines for 1 hour !
Replace Every Procurement Screen with a Provisioning Screen. Jim Rinaldi - CIO JPL