PDE-CS
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1 year ago PDS Management Response:
- The PDS is taking a prudent approach to implementing cloud services for its data holdings following the guidance of the OIG and its concerns for future egress costs in commercial cloud. The PDS cloud approach was reviewed in an executive summary provided to the IRB. Nodes data systems are actively evaluated for their different data requirements. Initial PDS cloud deployments are more attractive as backup systems, larger data holdings, including SBN, IMG, GEO.
- A white paper by Dan Crichton (JPL-EN) outlines the PDS cloud strategy, an executive summary of the paper was provided to the IRB. Version 1, 2020
- Several nodes are moving towards containerized software, e.g. PPI.
Recommendation 25 NASA should continue to execute against the PDS cloud computing strategy, including selective refactoring of current systems to enable cloud migration, such as the adoption of containerization and further work to establish well-defined and well- documented application programming interfaces.