Metacloud plays hardball.
It has no patience with pilots or proofs-of-concept. It’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 – even if it did come out of the closet with an unidentified Fortune 100 reportedly under contract.
It didn’t even have a name for its OpenStack distribution until now. It’s calling the private cloud it’s built on the latest Grizzly version of OpenStack Carbon|OS.
See, Metacloud’s founders are pretty sure of themselves because they figure they’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.
The company claims its operational experience is “a unique asset, found nowhere else in the private cloud services sector today.”