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  Piston Cloud has made the tough private cloud decisions for you

  Joshua McKenty, co-founder and chief executive officer of Piston Cloud, what he calls The Enterprise OpenStack Company, was in on the ground floor of OpenStack's creation, working as he was on the Anso Labs team at NASA to build a compute cloud on top of open source platform Eucalyptus. The team eventually gave up on that and wrote Nova, which NASA uses today to power its Nebula Cloud environment, and Nova was ultimately contributed to the OpenStack project, which it formed with Rackspace. McKenty left NASA after Anso was acquired by Rackspace in 2010, and formed Piston Cloud in 2011 with co-founders Gretchen Curtis (also of NASA) and Christopher MacGown of Rackspace. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with McKenty for a deep dive on why OpenStack matters and where Piston Cloud fits in.

  By John Dix | 15 March, 2012 11:10

  Tags: Blades, blade servers, cloud computing, community cloud, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, Ethernet Switch, fcoe, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, freemium, hardware systems, internet, Josua McKenty, LAN & WAN, NASA, open source, OpenStack, Piston Cloud, Piston Enterprise OS, private cloud, public cloud, rackspace, server, servers, software, Virtualization

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  Startup Piston 'ready for fight' with VMware

  Having just released its new cloud operating system, Piston Cloud Computing finds itself in a contentious position -- and company co-founder Josh McKenty says that is exactly where the company wants to be.

  By Colin Neagle | 24 January, 2012 04:31

  Tags: Citrix, cloud computing, internet, NASA, OpenStack, Piston Cloud Computing, Piston Enterprise OS, private cloud computing, software, VMware

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  Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston Enterprise OS

  Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party.

  By Colin Neagle | 21 January, 2012 09:28

  Tags: amazon, cloud computing, internet, NASA, NASA Nebula, OpenStack, Piston Cloud Computing, Piston Enterprise OS, software, VMware

Whitepapers about Piston Enterprise OS

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  Enterprise Communications: The Next Decade

  Enterprise communications will continue to undergo significant changes during the next decade, as multimodal cloud services invade traditional communication products and services. Today’s infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders need to understand 10 emerging trends that will influence enterprise communications. These include technology innovation for multimodal communications and collaboration, business imperatives for worker real-time connectivity, and enhanced cloud services for lower cost delivery of applications.

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  Mind the Gap: CISOs Work to Narrow the Breach-to-Detection Gap for Better Security

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  INFORMATION FOR SUCCESS - Oracle Enterprise Manager March 2009