TECHNOLOGY, NASA cloud architect forms company for private cloud

Chief Architect of NASA-cloud platform, spun in the open-source OpenStack cloud operating system, a new company and product launches to help companies more easily build private clouds.
Piston cloud computing sell a OpenStack distribution, which provides automation for ease of deployment, security features, to the needs of the security-conscious organizations and interoperability with public clouds, based also on OpenStack.
"The reasons for the foundation of the society is that the options for deploying private clouds are complicated, difficult to configure, get time-intensive and not necessarily scale particularly well," said Joshua McKenty, CEO of the cloud and cloud earlier piston architect and technical manager at NASA.
While many have begun the contribution to the OpenStack company on public clouds, McKenty wanted to use also OpenStack to ensure that businesses can, so that public and private clouds could be interoperable. He would also, of course, there was the unique challenges that companies facing, security, regulatory compliance, and integration with other enterprise systems products. "It's another animal as a public provider," he said.
PentOS said a private cloud from which the "bare metal", is required on all of the software he. It begins required with a Linux distribution that contains only the components, to run from OpenStack, a OpenStack distribution and a number of automation tools.
It is designed to be used with low-cost servers and hardware components, he said.
Typically, companies, private clouds on the OpenStack distribution professional services group, providing high availability, load balancing node node for storage create, including blade servers for computing and storage performance, he said. "But you're not really take advantage of the elasticity of the cloud", he stressed.
With PentOS, users can purchase requires to run a single class of the server and use the software to automate things such as a database, the high reliability on each server, depending on the capacity and reliability of the hard disk. He said "We the dependence on high availability are hardware process automation".
PentOS automates the installation. PentOS is packaged on a USB stick, the administrator can configure to a laptop.
Administrators have to choose not much if you have to configure their systems however. Entrance area of the Internet Protocol (IP) used, choose groups of users from Active Directory in the cloud permissions have settings to VLANS and configure the switch itself, how such as administrative passwords for this set.
"We have tried the software so opinionated as possible", he said. "There are no options to which database to use, or hypervisor."
PentOS works with the KVM hypervisor and MySQL. "We want people not bound in a number of licensing discussions", he said. "It's always a challenge." "If you give people a ton of options, give them many opportunities to reduce the performance of the system and some of the ways to improve the it."
If an administrator sets the configurations, the USB stick can be inserted in the server rack PentOS detects the hardware and installation and configuration of the operating system.
The installation process can eliminate a major security hole: the insider attack. Because the hardware from a USB stick is configured, a company cannot be only the most reliable administrator password. Additional administrators do not have applications to the hardware, because the Setup is done automatically, he said.
PentOS can add companies also only five servers at the same time.
Companies can buy additional PentOS modules, compliance with certain guidelines, such as for health organizations HIPAA and FISMA for government agencies.
Pistons plans for a limited offer of a preview version of PentOS-Monday, 29 followed by general availability of November.
McKenty claims that company CloudAudit, is PentOS of the first implementation of a set of common interfaces for automation of cloud features such as testing and quality assurance. This means that corporate users can choose to work with a public cloud provider, which is also CloudAudit and be sure that all of their cloud operations required such as HIPAA requirements.
McKenty is not only former developers of NASA cloud to create tools help companies trying to build private clouds. Chris Kemp, the former, CTO of NASA, which also helped build the cloud, it started a company called fog, an appliance, which aimed at easier for companies, private clouds build developed.

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