Piston Partners With Tokyo Electron Device to Accelerate OpenStack Private Cloud Adoption in Japan
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Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Tokyo Electron Device to distribute Piston OpenStack(TM) in Japan. Tokyo Electron Device (TED), a technical trading firm that provides semiconductor products and business solutions, also commissions the design and development of its own brand products. The partnership combines the power of Piston OpenStack(TM), the company’s global-scale private cloud software, with TED’s superior technical support and unmatched quality assurance to help customers meet their critical business objectives.
Piston OpenStack(TM) allows businesses to easily deploy and manage an OpenStack private cloud without IT operations expertise or specialized appliances. Providing best of breed virtualized compute, storage, networking and management through self-service interfaces and APIs, Piston frees developers to focus on building applications rather than infrastructure. Piston OpenStack can be deployed on commodity hardware from almost any major x86 vendor and scales to tens of thousands of physical servers…
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