Piston Cloud
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Piston Cloud, founded in 2011 in San Francisco by Josh McKenty — lead architect of NASA's Nebula cloud that became OpenStack — built enterprise-grade OpenStack private-cloud software (Piston OpenStack, later CloudOS) that automated the deployment and orchestration of large-scale distributed systems in customer data centers, serving enterprises like the USDA, Swisscom and Qualcomm.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Company founded
Josh McKenty founds Piston Cloud in San Francisco to productize OpenStack for the enterprise.
- Acquisition
Cisco acquires Piston Cloud on June 12, 2015 to strengthen its Intercloud OpenStack strategy; terms undisclosed.
- Operations ended
Cisco ends sale of Piston CloudOS and Piston OpenStack in July 2015 and ends support on December 4, 2015, migrating customers to Cisco Metapod.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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