Piston: Status check on OpenStack: The open source cloud has arrived

Piston Cloud Computing was one of the darlings of the OpenStack movement. A founding father of the cloud computing project, it produced one of the first private cloud products based on the open source code.Fast forward two years and founder Joshua McKenty has left Piston and the most recent release of the company's product dropped OpenStack from its name. What used to be Piston OpenStack is now named Piston Cloud OS. Why the change?"When Joshua and I started the company we did so to build a technology that would orchestrate the data center," said Christopher McGowan, CTO of Piston. "OpenStack is still a key technology for that." Recently though, customers have been asking about technologies such as Hadoop, Docker containers and data center orchestration software products like Kubernetes and Mesos. "We're expanding to support other technologies."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here