NASA migrated 65 software applications, including its flagship NASA.gov website, to the cloud in 22 weeks, and the space agency is still in the midst of a massive deployment to the cloud.

That initial migration was completed at what analysts called a breakneck pace, and now the fun has just begun, said the head of NASA’s Web services.

“The important thing this is we’ve learned a lot in the last 18 months,” said Roopangi Kadakia, NASA’s Web services executive. “Going through that, we were able to see how you optimize legacy applications. It can’t be business as usual. There’s a whole set of different ways to think about the cloud. If we get folks to that point, we can really start creating a strategy so you have better access to information anytime and anywhere.”

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