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by movedx
2282 days ago
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It's The Register, people. Don't take it seriously. It's practically The Onion of the IT industry, especially the comments sections. I've written two articles for them and the comments are a joke. They're all anti-Cloud, anti-progressive. Try selling them Kubernetes has a solution to their problems: they'll think you've come to steal their children. I know, I've tried. In short: this never happened. NASA didn't forget anything. It does, however, make for a great eye catching headline! Sorry to be bitter about this, but publications like The Register serve little purpose these days. It caters to a specific kind of IT personality that can't let go of their physical tin and they think public Cloud has no place or use at all. Again I know, I've tried convincing these people of such things. |
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Historically, data have been stored and processed on-premise but NASA has been migrating data and processing to the cloud where it makes sense. For instance, it makes a lot of sense to burst out to the cloud for near-real-time processing during and just after natural disasters like earthquakes and forest fires.
The large missions they mention (SWOT, NISAR - big radars in Earth orbit) are drivers of the shift of more processing + data to the cloud, because they will generate an unprecedented amount of data. They are pathfinders. By percentage, very little of that data will ever egress - it's low-level and uncalibrated - so a cached strategy could be valuable.
Here are some slides giving background on the SWOT/NISAR data system. They are from 2017, so more has happened in the meantime, but they touch on some of these issues:
https://smd-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/science-red/s3fs-public/at...
Regarding the step function in data volume, see the humorous slide #4.