[dsl]

> the power of an already proven infrastructure provider

Every major cloud provider is using Linux network drivers written by NASA employees.

In 1994 the NASA Beowulf project pioneered the idea of clustering together cheap commodity hardware to replace mainframes (this concept was later used to bootstrap hardware for Google)

NASA helped start the OpenStack project which powers a number of cloud providers.

Heck, NASA helped invent the GRiD Compass, the first laptop computer.

[ksec]

>NASA helped start the OpenStack...

Does anyone still uses OpenStack? It seems to have been super hyped and then disappeared.

[thaeli]

It's quietly powering a lot of private clouds these days.