Red Hat has announced that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has built a private cloud based on the Red Hat OpenStack Platform, saving significant time and resources spent on data centres by retooling and consolidating their in-house hardware. JPL, NASA’s primary centre for robotic exploration of the solar system, used Red Hat’s OpenStack and Linux technology to modernise 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. Now, however, JPL engineers have built an on-site OpenStack cloud which allows them to offer mission scientists and engineers flexible cloud computing capacity by moving on-site compute activities 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 in the OpenStack Foundation made them a well-suited partner for JPL.
Red Hat has contributed significantly to the upstream of the OpenStack community and in delivering a production-ready OpenStack platform to enterprise customers. Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a 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 organisations. 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.
“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 meet their needs for an agile infrastructure to meet their projected growth, while helping to reduce the data centre footprint”, says Radhesh Balakrishnan, General Manager, OpenStack, Red Hat.
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