Category Archives: Piston Cloud Computing

Piston Cloud Releases Version 2.0 of Piston Enterprise OpenStack With Advanced Management and Orchestration Capability

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

Piston Cloud Computing announces the release of version 2.0 of its enterprise OpenStack platform for managing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) private clouds today. Built on OpenStack Folsom, version 2.0 features an array of new features and functionality that streamlines … Continue reading →

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Piston Cloud Computing Secures $8 Million In Series B Funding

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

This week, Piston Cloud Computing announced the finalization of $8 million in Series B funding from Cisco Systems, Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures, with additional participation from Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad and True Ventures. The $8 million in Series B … Continue reading →

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Piston Cloud Appoints Jim Morrisroe, Open Source and Enterprise Software Veteran, As CEO

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

Piston Cloud Computing announced the appointment of Jim Morrisroe at its new Chief Executive Officer on Monday. Morrisroe takes over as CEO from cofounder Joshua McKenty, who will become the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Morrisroe brings to Piston Cloud over … Continue reading →

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Piston Cloud Announces Airframe, Free OpenStack Download With Streamlined Upgrade To Production

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

Today, Piston Cloud Computing announced the release of Airframe, a free OpenStack-based cloud management platform that allows users to examine a scaled down version of Piston’s Enterprise OpenStack product. Piston’s announcement represents the latest in a series of OpenStack-related announcements … Continue reading →

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Piston Cloud To Develop Interface Betwen OpenStack And Cloud Foundry As IaaS Converges With PaaS

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Piston Cloud Computing announced a new engineering initiative to develop an interface between OpenStack and VMware’s Cloud Foundry. Piston proposes to develop the interface and incorporate it into a subsequent release of its flagship product pentOS™. The interface will be … Continue reading →

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Radio Free Asia Deploys OpenStack-based Cloud Offering From Piston Cloud

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Piston Cloud Computing, one of the first companies to offer an enterprise-grade deployment of OpenStack, revealed that Radio Free Asia (RFA) will deploy Piston’s pentOS™ cloud platform to create private clouds that support RFA’s practice of broadcasting “news and information … Continue reading →

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Piston Cloud Computing Partners With Opscode, Puppet Labs and Rightscale

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

Piston Cloud Computing, the first vendor to deliver an enterprise grade, commercial deployment of OpenStack, announced partnerships with Opscode, Puppet Labs and RightScale on Thursday. The partnerships empower Piston Cloud customers to streamline and automate management of their private clouds. … Continue reading →

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Piston Cloud Computing Reveals General Availability Of OpenStack Based Private Cloud

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Piston Cloud Computing disclosed the general availability of Piston Enterprise OS, an enterprise grade deployment of OpenStack for private clouds, on Wednesday. With the announcement, Piston Cloud Computing becomes the first vendor to offer a commercialized version of the OpenStack … Continue reading →

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