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Piston Cloud Computing Inc., an enterprise OpenStack company, announced Thursday partnerships with various cloud infrastructure automation companies, including Opscode, Puppet Labs and RightScale. These partnerships enable Piston Cloud's customers to automate the tasks necessary to manage applications within their private clouds, simplifying the adoption curve.

"Today's private cloud solutions are poised to transform IT economics for the enterprise," said Joshua McKenty, CEO and co-founder of Piston Cloud Computing. "Automation and orchestration are key to realizing the operational efficiencies of private cloud. By supporting solutions like Opscode Chef, Puppet Enterprise and RightScale myCloud, Piston Cloud's customers have the ability to rapidly deploy and automate their applications within an OpenStack-powered environment."

Piston Enterprise OS is built on OpenStack, and the OpenStack distribution specifically focused on security and the easy operation of enterprise private clouds. Piston Cloud's Null-Tier Architecture combines storage, compute and networking on every node to deliver massive scalability with improved cost efficiency.

Designed to address regulatory requirements, Piston Enterprise OS also represents the industry's initial implementation of CloudAudit, an open security standard for cloud and virtualized environments. Piston Enterprise OS is hardware vendor agnostic, ensuring users aren't locked in to a single proprietary architecture and that the system integrates seamlessly with products from companies, including Intel, Dell and Arista.

The Opscode Chef enable Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) private cloud users to build fully automated VM clusters in a reliable and secure environment. Chef is a cloud infrastructure automation framework that makes it easy to create and automate infrastructure that can scale easily and predictably, saving organizations time and money.

Puppet Enterprise provides pentOS users with the productivity, agility and insight required to manage VMs in a dynamic private cloud environment. Taking advantage of the freely downloadable configuration modules in the Puppet Forge, Puppet Enterprise enables system administrators to quickly provision, configure and manage services atop their pentOS infrastructure.

The RightScale myCloud solution for private and hybrid cloud management provides pentOS users private cloud management, configuration and scalability with enterprise grade features such as user access, server security, resource usage and budgeting. RightScale makes it possible to run the same server configuration in both private and public clouds through a 'single pane of glass' providing seamless fail-over options and portability capability from private to public clouds.

“Accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud computing requires new tools and skills to manage and automate these dynamic and large-scale infrastructures," said Jesse Robbins, co-founder and chief community officer at Opscode. "Combining Piston Cloud's pentOS with Opscode Chef enables businesses to automate the entire cloud stack -- from server provisioning to application deployment and management."

"We're pleased that Piston Cloud has chosen to integrate with RightScale myCloud and we look forward to supporting their pentOS OpenStack offering," said Bailey Caldwell, vice president of business development at RightScale. "RightScale continues to enhance our support for OpenStack-based clouds to bring agility to our customers through faster onboarding and comprehensive automation, scalability and management. pentOS customers will further benefit from the flexibility RightScale provides to manage hybrid cloud solutions as needed."

"Piston Cloud shares our vision of making the management of complex IT infrastructure as simple as possible for the sysadmin," said Teyo Tyree, vice president of business development at Puppet Labs. "Together, Puppet Enterprise and pentOS will enable customers to further automate their service offerings and accelerate IT's delivery of value to the business."