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The space program is not entirely about space, and never was. It's about learning about how to solve problems. First, you change your perspective about what those problems are. From

Today at OSCon former NASA CTO Chris Kemp announced his new company Nebula, which will sell an OpenStack based appliance for cloud computing. The appliances are based on the

Rackspace announced today that it will offer paid support for OpenStack, the cloud platform it open-sourced along with NASA, Dell and others. The new support service is called Cloud

Amazon.com is working closely with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide cloud computing services for the space agency's The Mars Exploration Rover project, NASA announced today. Although the

It's official. Open Stackhas made its first release. It's a major moment for the nascent open cloud initiative, a service that combines the Rackspace object storage capabilities with NASA's Nebula,

The search for extraterrestrial life with SETI@Home perhaps popularized the idea of distributed computing projects. Now NASA has plans to undertake a similar project, using that model not to look

In the past few days we have seen two new initiatives that involve companies known for their open-source roots. Red Hat announced it is open-sourcing its Deltacloud API. Eucalyptus is

With concerns about the immaturity and security of public clouds, many enterprise organizations are opting instead to implement private (or hybrid) clouds in order to access the benefits that cloud

Rackspace and NASA are open-sourcing code and technology for people anywhere to create their own cloud environments. Called OpenStack, the initiative is one of the most substantive efforts to support