Piston Ships Enterprise OpenStack 2.0, Focused on Easy Deployment

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Very steadily, Piston Cloud has gained a reputation as a company with some smart strategies surrounding the OpenStack open cloud computing platform and how it can serve enterprises. In February, the company also announced that it had raised $8 million in Series B financing follows a $4.5 million Series A round in July, 2011.

This week, the company has delivered its “turnkey” Enterprise OpenStack 2.0 distribution, which looks like a relatively easy way to start dabbling with an OpenStack cloud deployment. 

Piston is specifically targeting enterprises that want to “end dependency” on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud needs. According to the announcement of  Enterprise OpenStack 2.0:

 

 
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