Introducing Piston Cloud Computing
We are thrilled to announce our recent investment in Piston Cloud Computing along side Hummer Winblad, Divergent Ventures and other prominent angels.
At True, we have been following OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, very closely over the past year. What became clear quickly was that OpenStack was real and gaining momentum with developers in addition to large enterprises. The project now includes over 80 participating companies, including Dell, Cisco, Citrix, and Rackspace, among others.
So when we had the opportunity to fund the lead architect behind its development, we jumped at the chance. Founder and CEO, Josh McKenty was the lead architect behind NASA’s Nebula Cloud Infrastructure, which is now the basis for OpenStack. As part of Piston, Josh has assembled an incredible team including Co-Founder, Chris MacGown, who previously was Technical Lead at SliceHost, which was acquired by Rackspace in 2008.
We couldn’t be more excited to be working with Josh and Chris, who bring a unique skillset and insight into the highly disruptive private cloud market.
You can find more about the recent funding announcement here.
[...] and Chris MacGown, Technical Lead at Slicehost, which was acquired by Rackspace in 2008. Puneet Agrawal of True Ventures commented on True’s support of Piston as follows: At True, we have been following OpenStack, the open [...]
by Piston Cloud Computing and Bromium Contest Cloud Security Space | Cloud Computing Today
on July 25, 2011
This is a great blog post, especially regarding the way in which it illuminates the growing power of OpenStack within the cloud computing space. For more on Piston Cloud Computing and OpenStack, see the blog “Cloud Computing Today” and the article “Piston Cloud Computing and Bromium Venture Into Cloud Security Space” at:
http://cloud-computing-today.com/2011/07/25/piston-cloud-computing-and-bromium-contest-cloud-security-space/
by Arnal Dayaratna
on July 25, 2011
[...] Platform, and Christopher MacGown in early 2011, San Francisco based Piston Cloud Computing is funded by Hummer Winblad and True Ventures. The company’s deployment of an enterprise version of [...]
by Piston Cloud Computing Launches pentOS, Enterprise Grade OpenStack Based Cloud Offering | Cloud Computing Today
on September 26, 2011
[...] Platform, and Christopher MacGown in early 2011, San Francisco based Piston Cloud Computing is funded by Hummer Winblad and True Ventures. The company’s deployment of an enterprise version of [...]
by Arnal Dayaratna: Piston Cloud Computing Launches pentOS, Enterprise Grade OpenStack Based Cloud Offering | PCE Groups, LLC
on September 28, 2011
[...] Christopher MacGown in early 2011, San Francisco based Piston Cloud Computing is funded by Hummer Winblad and True Ventures.[...]
by Yagger
on December 6, 2011