{"id":7818,"date":"2013-06-17T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2702845"},"modified":"2013-06-17T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T15:34:00","slug":"metacloud-outs-custom-openstack-for-fortune-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/metacloud-outs-custom-openstack-for-fortune-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Metacloud Outs Custom OpenStack for Fortune Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metacloud plays hardball.<br \/>\nIt has no patience with pilots or proofs-of-concept. It\u2019ll only do production Infrastructure-as-a-Service installations, which is kind of uppity for a start-up that only hit the radar last October \u2013 even if it did come out of the closet with an unidentified Fortune 100 reportedly under contract.<br \/>\nIt didn\u2019t even have a name for its OpenStack distribution until now. It\u2019s calling the private cloud it\u2019s built on the latest Grizzly version of OpenStack Carbon|OS.<br \/>\nSee, Metacloud\u2019s founders are pretty sure of themselves because they figure they\u2019ve done this kind of thing before. When CEO Steve Curry was at Yahoo for over a decade he managed its global storage operations that handled hundreds of petabytes of content and user data. And when CTO Sean Lynch was at Ticketmaster, the third-largest e-commerce system in the world, he ran its technical operations.<br \/>\nThe company claims its operational experience is \u201ca unique asset, found nowhere else in the private cloud services sector today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2702845\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metacloud plays hardball.<br \/>\nIt has no patience with pilots or proofs-of-concept. It&rsquo;ll only do production Infrastructure-as-a-Service installations, which is kind of uppity for a start-up that only hit the radar last October &ndash; even if it did come out of the closet with an unidentified Fortune 100 reportedly under contract.<br \/>\nIt didn&rsquo;t even have a name for its OpenStack distribution until now. It&rsquo;s calling the private cloud it&rsquo;s built on the latest Grizzly version of OpenStack Carbon|OS.<br \/>\nSee, Metacloud&rsquo;s founders are pretty sure of themselves because they figure they&rsquo;ve done this kind of thing before. When CEO Steve Curry was at Yahoo for over a decade he managed its global storage operations that handled hundreds of petabytes of content and user data. And when CTO Sean Lynch was at Ticketmaster, the third-largest e-commerce system in the world, he ran its technical operations.<br \/>\nThe company claims its operational experience is &ldquo;a unique asset, found nowhere else in the private cloud services sector today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2702845\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/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-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","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=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}