Exsqueeze me?
"Ames wants to consolidate legacy storage and move many of its datasets to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud to save cash."
Yea let me know how that one works out for you
NASA’s Ames Research Centre is moving many files into Amazon’s S3 cloud using Avere’s gateway tech. Ames wants to consolidate legacy storage and move many of its datasets to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud to save cash. It knows a teensy-weensy bit about IT, running NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division’s Pleiades …
You know what - they might have done the sums on this one...
And they might have a pretty good handle on the data that they are shifting - they've been doing it long enough.
I'll wait and see, but of all the "move it to the cloud to save money" stories we see - this is the one of the few cases I can see being well researched.