CLOUD COMPUTING
CLOUD COMPUTING Busting Myths and Enabling Adoption at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tom Soderstrom IT CTO
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology All JPL content copyright 2011 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.
Khawaja Shams Mission Cloud Expert
MISSION CRITICAL
Got Redundancy?
Got 9’s?
SECURED UPLINK PLANNING
SECURITY
Can Clouds Be Safer?
Identity Management •
JPL has multiple cloud computing accounts
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Goal 1: Limit access wherever possible
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•
Prevent accidents
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Minimize exposure
•
Only use authorized services
Goal 2: Empower IT Security and IT Consumers! •
Hardened Images
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Bird’s-eye-view of every account
Virtual Private Cloud
ECONOMICAL
Infrastructure Cost $ Missed deadline
Large Capital Expenditure Predicted Demand Opportunity Cost
Traditional Hardware Actual Demand
Automated Virtualization JPL Mission
time
Mission Ops Computers
100 Hours of computation cost the same on 1 machine for 100 hours or 100 machines for 1 hour !
Bursty Operations Cycle
Replace Every Procurement Screen with a Provisioning Screen.
Tom Soderstrom IT CTO
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology All JPL content copyright 2011 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.
Khawaja Shams Mission Cloud Expert
MISSION CRITICAL
Got Redundancy?
Got 9’s?
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
Infrastructure Cost $ Missed deadline
Large Capital Expenditure Predicted Demand Opportunity Cost
Traditional Hardware Actual Demand
Automated Virtualization JPL Mission
time
Mission Ops Computers
100 Hours of computation cost the same on 1 machine for 100 hours or 100 machines for 1 hour !
Bursty Operations Cycle
Replace Every Procurement Screen with a Provisioning Screen.
