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