The Enterprise OpenStack™ Company

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is a software company founded in 2011 by several of the creators of OpenStack, including former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, former Rackspace luminary Christopher MacGown and NASA Communications Director Gretchen Curtis. The company was funded by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, True Ventures and Divergent Ventures and is based in San Francisco, California.

Our core product, Piston Enterprise OS™, 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 acts as a liaison between the businesses, academic communities and nonprofit and research organizations that deploy OpenStack, and the open source community that develops it. We help 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.