Former NASA Pros' Cloud Startups Face Off

摘要

Two veterans of NASA's Nebula cloud computing project-Chris Kemp, former NASA CTO for IT, and Joshua McKenty, former technical lead and cloud architect-are squaring off in competing ventures less than 18 months after leaving the space agency. The startups offer dueling approaches for running a private cloud computing environment. Both are built on the free, open source Open-Stack software for managing infrastructure as a service. OpenStack is sponsored by NASA and Rackspace, with Cisco,Citrix, Dell, Intel, and other tech vendors participating in the project.