NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Powers Planetary Exploration with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
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
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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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