Piston unveils pentOS for private cloud

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack company, has announced the availability of Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS), an easy, secure and open cloud operating system for managing enterprise private cloud environments.

Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) is the first enterprise OpenStack cloud operating system specifically focused on security and easy operation of private clouds, said a press release.

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"We're building the most secure and feature-rich distribution of OpenStack in the world. We plan to define the future of secure private cloud, while propelling OpenStack forward with ongoing and significant contributions to the open source codebase," said Joshua McKenty, Piston CEO and Co-founder

The release further added that, the new OS is custom built to address regulatory requirements and represents the first enterprise implementation of CloudAudit, a cross-industry standard launched in early 2010 to automate the process of auditing cloud service providers, which has become the security standard for OpenStack.

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According to the release, pentOS operates on a custom-built Linux distribution to minimize security exposure and interoperable with any other OpenStack-based public cloud environments.

"There has been a groundswell of interest in OpenStack. Piston Cloud has a timely opportunity to innovate and extend the open source cloud operating system, which is already being implemented in some of the world’s most notable enterprise organizations," said Jim Curry, General Manager, Rackspace Cloud Builders

OpenStack is the fastest-growing open source project in the world, with over 1,550 contributors and 110 participating companies.