Cloud Computing Made Easy

By Justin Lee, March 08, 2010

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — NASA recently announced via one of its websites that it is restrategizing its plans to acquire an enterprise data center.

NASA decided to postpone the acquisition after realizing that the NASA Enterprise Data Center program did not adhere to its enterprise needs. The agency’s needs shifted after recent leadership changes and new requirements from the Office of Management and Budget were introduced in relation to cloud computing, greening information technology, virtualization, and federal data center leadership.

Estimated to be worth $1.5 billion, the NEDC program is just one of five components in the agency’s planned IT consolidation. The agency has yet to issue a final request for proposal for the plan.

The agency says the NEDC contract would include requirements met under the Unified NASA Information Technology Services deal, which includes data center operations, data center management, Web hosting, and storage services.

In its recent notice, NASA said that it anticipates the “strategy and consolidation plan will significantly change” and will be completed this fall.

NASA said it is looking to develop a data center plan that will consolidate all data centers, systems, applications, as well as include a data center architecture and full enterprise assessment.

This would give the agency the chance to design an infrastructure strategy according to its business requirements and use technologies like cloud computing to cut energy costs.

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