Piston launches CloudOS 4.0 to expand beyond OpenStack
April 6, 2015
Grazed from SDTimes. Author: Editorial Staff.
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. today announced the availability of Piston CloudOS 4.0, an operating system for the modern data center that transforms clusters of commodity servers into a single unified environment. Used to deploy OpenStack in minutes, CloudOS 4.0 now allows customers and partners to also deploy Hadoop and Spark on bare metal, with forthcoming support for container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Mesos and Docker Swarm.
The technology behind CloudOS 4.0 has been deployed at scale and in production by hundreds of companies since 2011, including Swisscom, USDA, Zulily, and King Digital Entertainment. This announcement represents Piston’s first expansion into a broader market beyond OpenStack…
“For the last four years, Piston has developed a platform that makes OpenStack deployment and operation extremely fast and easy. Now customers can use this platform, called CloudOS, to deploy other frameworks and orchestration tools as highly-available services, all on the same infrastructure,” said Jim Morrisroe, CEO of Piston Cloud Computing. “Our vision is to make deploying the services that developers need as simple as downloading an app to your smartphone.”…
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