How a NASA Open Source Startup Could Change the IT Universe

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Sean Michael Kerner
Nov 4, 2012

When Kemp started at NASA back in 2006, he helped to lead the partnership with Google. It’s an experience that shaped his thinking about the availability of compute resources.

“It was through working with Google that I came to realize how much of a force multiplier it was to give everyone of your employees access to infinite compute and storage resources,” Kemp said. “That’s really what the people that work at Google feel that they’ve got.”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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