NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Powers Planetary Exploration with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
April 25 2016 - 8:00AM
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Red Hat Enables Technology behind Planetary
Exploration, Helping JPL Maximize Server and Storage Capacity to
Process Flight Projects and Research Data Through an OpenStack
Private Cloud
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) has built a private cloud based on Red Hat
OpenStack Platform, saving significant time and resources spent on
datacenters by retooling and consolidating their in-house hardware.
JPL, NASA’s primary center for robotic exploration of the solar
system, used Red Hat’s OpenStack and Linux technology to modernize
its on-premise storage and server capacity, giving them the ability
to support hundreds of JPL mission scientists and engineers.
NASA’s JPL has led many significant achievements in space
exploration, from creating America’s first satellite to sending a
spacecraft to every planet in the solar system and launching all
four of the Mars rovers. Today, these exploratory missions rely
more significantly on cloud computing capabilities to process
requests from flight projects and researchers working with mission
data. Traditionally, most of JPL’s infrastructure was housed in
on-site server hardware.
JPL engineers built an on-site OpenStack cloud for the large and
flexible cloud computing capacity they could offer mission
scientists and engineers, planning to move critical compute
activities that needed to be on-site into a more efficient private
cloud architecture.
Deploying Red Hat OpenStack Platform offers JPL enterprise-scale
computing capacity that would enable researchers to tap into their
own private cloud and use external cloud resources, such as Amazon
Web Services (AWS), when necessary for peak demand. Red Hat’s
experience from long-term participation in the OpenStack Foundation
and key upstream contributions to specific platform projects made
them a well-suited partner for JPL.
Red Hat is an OpenStack leader - both in contributions to the
upstream OpenStack community and its work to deliver a
production-ready OpenStack platform to enterprise customers. Red
Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable, production-ready
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, has emerged as an open
source cloud platform of choice for a growing number of global
organizations. Co-engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
backed by Red Hat's support lifecycle, Red Hat OpenStack Platform
offers an open foundation for cloud deployments.
Supporting Quote
Radhesh Balakrishnan, General Manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“NASA JPL is at the forefront of technology-powered innovation
and we're excited about the computing capacity needed for their
exploratory missions being powered by Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
This is a testament to the reliability, availability and
scalability offered by a fully open cloud infrastructure built on
Red Hat OpenStack Platform. We are proud of the partnership with
NASA JPL to address their needs for an agile infrastructure to meet
their projected growth, while helping to reduce the datacenter
footprint.”
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