Rackspace cloud has partnered with NASA researchers in a joint technology development meant to leverage open-source
software development worldwide. NASA and Rackspace are both donating code and manpower for the open-source cloud project called OpenStack, a press release said Monday.
The cloud server infrastructure will be based on Rackspace Cloud Files, while NASA is building a scalable compute-provisioning engine based on its nebula cloud technology. Rackspace hosted a summit on the NASA cloud hosting project in Austin July 13-16, rallying more than 100 technical advisers, developers and founding members to ratify the project road map.
Other participants in the design summit include: AMD Inc., Autonomic Resources, Citrix Systems Inc., Cloud.com, Cloudkick, Cloudscaling, CloudSwitch Inc., Dell Inc., enStratus, FathomDB, Intel Corp., iomart Group, Limelight Inc., Nicira Inc., NTT DATA Corp., Opscode Inc., PEER 1 Co., Puppet Labs, RightScale LLC, Riptano, Scalr Inc., SoftLayer, Sonian Inc., Spiceworks Inc., Zenoss Inc. and Zuora inc.
