NASA’s JPL Taps IT to Power Space Missions and Worker Creativity

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is famous for the Mars Curiosity Rover, the Explorer spacecraft, the Voyager program and countless other history-making missions. But behind all those landmark events are IT systems enabled by the cloud, analytics, big data and consumer technology.

JPL’s cloud strategy goes back six years to when CIO Jim Rinaldi decided he’d rather rent than buy cloud capabilities. Today, JPL’s cloud infrastructure includes a public, private and hybrid cloud that will all soon run from a single data center and power all the organization’s missions into space.

“One of the things in our hybrid cloud that’s going to make this so different for people involves mission work,” Rinaldi says. “To be able to provision the compute and storage resources as they need enables mission folks to work differently than they ever have before.”

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