Piston Updates OpenStack Cloud Platform
March 6, 2014
Grazed from ServerWatch. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.
Every six months or so, a new release of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform debuts. The open-source release is followed by the stream of commercial vendors, including Piston Cloud Computing, that harden the upstream bits and enhance the platform with their own solutions. Piston OpenStack 3.0 was officially released last week, and one of its key OpenStack promises is that existing Piston OpenStack users could migrate and update to the new platform without any downtime.
"We’re at the point of maturity in the OpenStack market where a lot of our customers have already tried and failed with someone else’s OpenStack product," Joshua McKenty CTO and co-founder of Piston, told ServerWatch. "So what we’re saying is that if you’re giving up on Mirantis, don’t give up on OpenStack; you should try Piston."…
McKenty added that the secret sauce behind Piston is a bit of Moxie. Technically speaking, it’s the Moxie Runtime Environment (RTE) that is the key differentiator between Piston and the myriad of other OpenStack distributions on the market today…
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