FOCUS CLOUD UPDATE
Issue 17, August/September
FOCUS UPDATE: CLOUD
Administration (NASA) has started a new company. It plans to bring to the market a physical appliance it says will be able to automatically configure a private cloud that can consist of thousands of low-cost computers in a matter of minutes. The company is called Nebula – the same name NASA’s IT arm gave the private cloud it built to serve its employees under the leadership of Chris Kemp, who left his post as the agency’s CTO in March.
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Nebula got its seed capital from some of Google’s fi rst investors: Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton and Ram Shiram. The company has also secured venture fi nancing from Kleiner Perkins Caufi eld and Byers (KPCB) as well as Highland Capital Partners.
John Doerr, a partner at KPCB, says he believes Nebula will disrupt and democratize cloud
he former CTO of the US National
Aeronautics and Space
FORMER NASA CTO STARTS CLOUD VENTURE No surprise in the name, former NASA CTO’s new company announced a product called Nebula he says will lower the barrier of entry to private-cloud infrastructure deployment
computing. “As original creators of OpenStack, this team has the unique expertise to deliver simplicity, scale, speed and low cost for enterprise cloud computing,” Doerr said.
Some of the members of Kemp’s team at Nebula include former engineers and executives from the likes of Google, Amazon, Rackspace and Microsoft.
OpenStack is an open-source software platform for creating cloud infrastructures developed by a group of organizations under the same name. NASA and data center services company Rackspace were there OpenStack.
at Nebula’s anticipated the high costs and
the beginning of cloud
appliance builds on OpenStack to provide a way for organizations to build private clouds without
complexities
associated with such deployments today. The platform will support commodity servers from the common enterprise vendors as well as
Nebula’s OpenStack-based private cloud appliance
Facebook’s Open Compute platform. Nebula expects to start trials toward the end of 2011.
Kemp announced his resignation from NASA in March, hinting his future included a high- tech start-up. “I am leaving the place I dreamed of working as a kid to fi nd a garage in Palo Alto to do what I love,” he wrote in a blog, referring to the famous garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard planted the seeds of HP in 1939. Kemp said he left NASA because the job did not have an entrepreneurial side to it. “I saw my vision for the future slowly slip further from my grasp,” he said.
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