GRANDVILLE – Yes, you can fit a cloud on a USB stick.
Founded by several of the brains who conceived OpenStack ? the open source software platform for building Amazon-like ?infrastructure clouds? ? San Francisco startup Piston Cloud Computing has squeezed the platform onto a memory stick in an effort to streamline the creation of such clouds behind the firewall.
Set for an unveiling at next week?s OpenStack conference in Boston, this ?cloud key? also includes Piston?s Linux-based PentOS. According to the company, when plugged into a network switch, the key lets you configure an OpenStack cloud in a matter of minutes.
?This is the boot disk of your private cloud,? Piston CEO Joshua McKenty tells Wired, noting that the key was inspired by old Linux-based portable firewall, FloppyFW. ?You take away all the configuration at the hardware side. Let the software figure out which servers to run.?
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