Acquired by Cisco
Industries Cloud ComputingCloud ManagementIaaSOpen SourceSoftwareDiversity Spotlight (US Headquarters Only) Women FoundedHeadquarters Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Closed Date 2018 Founded Date 2011 Founders Christopher MacGown, Gretchen Vagharshakian, Joshua McKenty Operating Status Closed Last Funding Type Debt Financing Legal Name Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
Company Type For Profit
Contact Email info@pistoncloud.com Phone Number 1(800) 890-4965
Founded in 2011, Piston makes Piston OpenStack™, a software product that automates the orchestration of an entire private cloud environment on commodity servers. Companies building web, mobile, and big data applications use Piston’s secure and cost-effective AWS-like capabilities to bring new products to market faster. By managing a group of
servers as a single pool of elastic and scalable computing resources, Piston OpenStack improves datacenter efficiency thereby accelerating the application development process.
Created by several of the founders of OpenStack, Piston drives the OpenStack project forward via code contributions, thought leadership through 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 the other companies working to make OpenStack the industry standard in cloud.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and funded by True Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Swisscom Ventures, Cisco Systems, Inc., Data Collective, and Divergent Ventures.
Transaction Name Piston Cloud Computing acquired by CiscoAcquired by CiscoAnnounced Date Jun 12, 2015