While working for NASA as a cloud architect, Joshua McKenty helped to build the Nebula compute project and start the OpenStack open source cloud platform. McKenty has since gone on to found Piston Cloud computing, which launched its first public release in September of 2011.
Piston is now updating its OpenStack solution in a 2.0 release that aims improve and ease the management of cloud deployments.
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