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Piston Cloud Computing

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The Piston Cloud executive team includes former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, former Rackspace luminary Christopher MacGown and former NASA Communications Director Gretchen Curtis.

Our core product, Piston Enterprise OpenStack™, is a massively scalable private cloud operating system built on OpenStack, with a focus on ease of use and advanced security features for highly regulated environments.

Piston Cloud helps drive OpenStack forward via code contributions, thought leadership through our role on the OpenStack Project Policy Board, and in support of the OpenStack developer community. We willingly share our expertise, leadership, guidance, vision and code with the community and other companies working to make OpenStack the industry standard in cloud. Piston Cloud’s goal is to further the natural evolution of the OpenStack project while focusing on meeting the needs of the enterprise.

The company was funded by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, True Ventures and Divergent Ventures and is based in San Francisco, California.

Recent Milestones

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  Piston Cloud Computing received $8M in Series B funding. (2/4/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 3:15am via venturebeat.com
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Jim Morrisroe as CEO. (11/1/12)
  Posted 5/5/13 at 12:01pm
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Robert Williams as VP Global Alliances. (10/1/12)
  Posted 10/23/12 at 8:00am
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  Piston Cloud Computing — Piston Cloud enters the market, introduces pentOS (9/27/11)
  Posted 11/30/11 at 4:15pm via pistoncloud.com
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  Piston Cloud Computing received $4.5M in Series A funding. (6/21/11)
  Posted 7/11/11 at 2:12pm via gigaom.com
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Bob Sutterfield as VP, Service Delivery. (4/1/11)
  Posted 2/14/13 at 10:55am
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  Piston Cloud Computing received $500k in Seed funding. (3/1/11)
  Posted 7/11/11 at 2:10pm via sec.gov
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Kevin Ober as Board Observer. (3/1/11)
  Posted 1/25/12 at 5:50pm
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Joshua McKenty as Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer. (1/1/11)
  Posted 1/23/11 at 4:58pm
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Christopher MacGown as CTO. (1/1/11)
  Posted 1/23/11 at 4:58pm
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Gretchen Curtis as Director of Marketing. (1/1/11)
  Posted 1/24/12 at 10:17am
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Jim Morrisroe as Chief Executive Officer.
  Posted 12/4/12 at 4:44am
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  Piston Cloud Computing added Freddy Mangum as Sales & Business Development.
  Posted 7/11/11 at 2:15pm

Videos

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Sources

1. SEC Filing (sec.gov) [edit]
2. OpenStack gets a startup seeking to commercialize the code (gigaom.com) [edit]
3. Piston Cloud nabs $8M to bolster open source cloud adoption (venturebeat.com) [edit]
Piston Cloud to create world's most secure OpenStack distribution (pistoncloud.com) [edit]