Piston Cloud Announces General Availability of OpenStack Operating System pentOS
January 19, 2012
OpenStack OS developer Piston Cloud Computing announced on Wednesday that it has launched its Piston Enterprise operating system, pentOS, to the general public.
Piston’s operating system is the first OpenStack distribution specifically focused on security and the operation of enterprise private clouds.
In September, the WHIR talked to the founders of Piston about its cloud operating system for managing enterprise private cloud environments.
According to the press release, Piston Cloud’s Null Tier Architecture combines storage, compute and networking an every node to deliver massive scalability…
PentOS represents the first implementation of CloudAudit, an open security standard for cloud and virtualized environments. It is also hardware vendor agnostic so users aren’t locked into a single proprietary architecture.
Piston says pentOS can be installed in less than 10 minutes, and provides automatic security updates via a subscription service.
pentOS operates on a custom-built Linux distribution, and delivers a 99.999 percent automated and hands-free of the pentOS software to servers and switches. It is interoperable with any other OpenStack-based public cloud environment including Rackspace, Dell, Amazon, Internap and AT&T.
“As we continue to see security lag in the public cloud environment, it is clear that private cloud is really the only option for organizations dealing with large volumes of regulated data,” Joshua McKenty, CEO and co-founder of Piston Cloud said in a statement. “To date, VMware was the only widely accepted option for private cloud, which brought with it associated cost, complexity and vendor lock-in. Piston Enterprise OS disrupts the market with the easiest, most secure and open approach to private cloud.”
Pricing starts at $3,500 per server, according to the press release.