NASA’s JPL Taps IT to Power Space Missions and Worker Creativity

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is famous for the Mars Curiosity Rover, the Explorer spacecraft, the Voyager program and countless other history-making missions. But behind all those landmark events are IT systems enabled by the cloud, analytics, big data and consumer technology.JPL’s cloud strategy goes back six years to when CIO Jim Rinaldi decided he’d rather rent than buy cloud capabilities. Today, JPL’s cloud infrastructure includes a public, private and hybrid cloud that