Enterprise OpenStack company Piston Cloud Computing announced on Wednesday it has released Airframe which it calls a “slimmed-down version” of its flagship cloud management platform, Piston Enterprise OpenStack.
The move is another step forward in OpenStack’s aggressive growth strategy, as the open source platform continues to see support from developers, cloud companies, and end users alike.
According to the press release, Airframe is a “bare-metal cloud management platform that installs in less than 10 minutes and delivers 100 percent of the core OpenStack services, including compute, storage, networking and cloud management.”
Business users can use Airframe, free of cost, to evaluate and become comfortable with OpenStack in a pre-production environment.
Airframe is the same technology powering Piston Enterprise OpenStack, which delivers virtual machines, block storage, scale-out object storage and virtualized networking, through a self-service web portal and a set of open standard APIs.
With Airframe, users can deploy a complete OpenStack environment that runs everything needed to operate an application-development cloud, including object and block storage.
In addition to OpenStack, Airframe comes bundled with open source platform as a service Cloud Foundry to deliver a turn-key application development cloud experience.
Airframe features include Moxie HA, hands-free 10-minute installation, push-button upgrades, Cloud Foundry integration, and a choice of hardware.
“OpenStack installers on the market today are either too complicated to deploy and manage, or just not a complete solution,” said Joshua McKenty, CEO and co-founder of Piston Cloud Computing. “We felt it was important to provide an ‘easy’ method of installing OpenStack that didn’t require sacrificing a production-class architecture. Users can upgrade from a pilot deployment to a fully-supported production environment without having to start over. We believe that’s a really significant difference. With Airframe we can give people a truly seamless experience from a free to paid and supported solution.”
Airframe is free to use on an unlimited number of servers, for an unlimited time, with an unlimited number of users.
However, the license is purely for self-evaluation purposes, designed for pilot deployments, POCs and lab environments. It does not allow users to operate Airframe as a publicly-available commercial service, or for commercial resale.
Just like Piston Enterprise OpenStack, Airframe runs on commodity hardware, and is supported by Piston Cloud’s update service, and through a set of community forums.
Users can upgrade to Piston Enterprise OpenStack for a more comprehensive enterprise-level support. Piston Enterprise OpenStack features include live migration, automated hands-free scale-out, as well as Gridcentric’s virtual memory streaming memory over-subscription and rapid instance cloning.
Airframe will be available for download on Piston’s website starting September 4.
In June, Pison partnered with Canadian virtualization technology startup Gridcentric, where Piston was granted exclusive licensing of Gridcentric’s VDI solution.
Talk back: Do you currently support open source cloud platforms like OpenStack? Are you considering using Piston’s Airframe platform to test out an OpenStack cloud environment? Let us know in a comment.
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Source : http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/piston-cloud-releases-free-openstack-distribution-for-private-cloud
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