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case study CLOUD
NASA Ames smooths
its cloud migration
A hybrid solution gave NASA’s Ames Research Center the storage it needed — plus speedy response times and encryption
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
NASA’s Ames Research Cen- ter is no stranger to dealing with large data files, but storing them was becoming problem- atic. For help, the agency looked to the cloud.
Often when researchers started a new project, the IT staff planned for
more storage, which meant adding file servers. That, in turn, involved con- tacting vendors, finding space in the data center for the equipment, power- ing it, cooling it — all of which took time and effort.
Instead, Ames officials chose a cloud-based solution from Avere Sys-
tems that would meet the center’s goals for moving to the cloud in the first place: add capacity, avoid latency in downloading files, migrate existing projects to the cloud and secure data once it has been moved.
Now officials simply create a new bucket in an Amazon Simple Storage
The move to a hybrid cloud has streamlined the way IT administrators manage storage capacity at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
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