DOE, National Labs Reveal Sweeping Cloud Strategy

December 11, 2012 Off By David

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: J. Nicholas Hoover.

The Department of Energy and its national laboratories released a wide-ranging cloud computing strategy and overview that for the first time pulls together the disparate cloud computing efforts of the agency’s 22 national laboratories. The strategy largely leaves in place the agency’s hands-off approach to information technology at the national labs in what it calls a "cloud of clouds approach": A small set of centralized Department of Energy initiatives will guide the numerous cloud computing efforts at the independently-operated national labs.

Thus far, that hands-off approach has led to significant innovation at the labs. The strategy highlights a number of cloud computing initiatives and efforts at the national labs that range widely from the basic to the innovative, from infrastructure-as-a-service to Google Apps to virtual desktop infrastructures. Among them:…

Department Of Energy’s YOURcloud

The agency’s YOURcloud hybrid cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service offering will position the Department of Energy as a cloud broker and orchestrator, linking the agency and national labs to various public and private cloud service providers, and providing a home for the agency’s future enterprise app store. Based as it is on Los Alamos National Lab’s Infrastructure on Demand platform, YOURcloud shows that the agency will likely lean on its national labs to execute any centralized elements to its cloud strategy…

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