{"id":5678,"date":"2013-02-04T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2530278"},"modified":"2013-02-04T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T20:13:00","slug":"cloud-computing-piston-closes-8-million-b-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-piston-closes-8-million-b-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Piston Closes $8 Million B Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piston Cloud Computing, the OpenStack disciple, has gotten an $8 million B round to accelerate OpenStack adoption from Cisco, Data Collective, Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Swisscom Ventures and True Ventures.<br \/>\nThe money will be used for product development.<br \/>\nCisco, Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures are new investors.<br \/>\nPiston got a $4.5 million A round in July of 2011 and launched the first commercial OpenStack distribution for building, scaling and managing a private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud on bare-metal, converged commodity hardware.<br \/>\nThe widgetry also integrates with the open source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2530278\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piston Cloud Computing, the OpenStack disciple, has gotten an $8 million B round to accelerate OpenStack adoption from Cisco, Data Collective, Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Swisscom Ventures and True Ventures.<br \/>\nThe money will be used for product &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}