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NEBULA: NASA'S STRATEGIC CL OUD

advantage of economies of scale. It will be available to NASA
agencies and outsiders on a pay-as-you-go basis. Users will be
able to self-provision virtual servers, and billing will be auto-
matically applied to that use.
If these techniques lower the overall cost of IT for NASA,
then cloud computing will have proved to be one of Vivek Kun-

dra’s few options for achieving these goals in a constrained
economic climate. Such constraints are likely to be with both
the federal government and business for a long time to come,
leaving cloud computing with a tall order to fill.

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