Metacloud, the
leading provider of OpenStack-based private cloud solutions, today announced
its emergence fromstealth with an investment from Storm Ventures. Founded by
large scale infrastructure veterans who managed the massive infrastructures
behind Ticketmaster and Yahoo!, Metacloud provides the industry's first fully
managed OpenStack-based private cloud solution with enterprise capabilities for
availability, management and scale that give IT organizations the benefits of
the reliability and predictability of the best solutions on the market.
Building on top of the OpenStack cloud computing project, Metacloud is already
in production deployments at companies such as Tableau Software and other
Fortune 500 company.
"We founded
Metacloud with the firm belief that cloud is
not a buzz word, nor should it be hard to deploy and manage.Businesses can't
wait for months or years for results and
cloud implementations shouldn't take that long," said Steve Curry, CEO of
Metacloud. "Despite popular misconceptions, IT
organizations can have the best of both worlds: a cloud customized to their
requirements, deployed quickly and cost effectively. IT
organizations shouldn't have to keep buying proprietary hardware or software
that locks them into an increasingly
expensive cycle. Nor should
they have to put up with costly public cloud services that can't scale
with their data
center operations or business needs."
Despite the strong appeal of cloud computing, many companies
have struggled to find a viable solution to meet their needs. Enterprises
frequently cite data locality, cost and pre-existing capital investment as top
concerns that keep them from moving to a public cloud. Companies considering a
private cloud environment, which market research firm IDC projects as an $11.8
billion* market by 2014, are confronted with a different set of challenges.
Commercial solutions are proprietary, cost prohibitive and susceptible to
vendor lock-in. Open source-based solutions deliver the robust multi-tenancy
and self-service feature-set demanded by enterprise companies but can be
extremely complex for many organizations to implement and maintain.
The Metacloud private cloud solution is secure, scalable and
cost effective - typically deployed in customer production environments in
one-tenth the time of a proprietary cloud implementation at half the cost of
alternative solutions.
The benefits of Metacloud's private cloud include:
- High Availability - The Metacloud distribution of
OpenStack is optimized to provide automated fail-over of critical OpenStack
support services.
- Automated Scalability - The Metacloud distribution is tightly
integrated with a rapid deployment framework, allowing for the automated build
and subsequent scale of compute, cloud management and storage services.
- High Performance - Metacloud "Swift Direct-Path"
optimizes the route to object storage services for clients internal and
external to the managed cloud, ensuring high-performance object storage I/O.
- Network Optimization - An enhanced OpenStack networking
model conserves datacenter VLANs while maintaining secure tenant separation.
- Simplified Management - The Tenant Invite System is an
Active Directory enhancement that enables tenant membership to be easily and
securely delegated across the entire enterprise. Tight coupling with the Zabbix
Monitoring System enables Metacloud to report real-time performance metrics.
Co-founders Steve Curry and Sean Lynch draw upon
their previous experience managing large-scale infrastructure for Yahoo and
Ticketmaster to develop Metacloud. Curry founded the Yahoo! storage team, which
managed more than 300 petabytes of production storage. Lynch served as SVP of
Technical Operations at Ticketmaster, where he designed and deployed
Ticketmaster's global systems infrastructure (Ticketmaster is the third largest
ecommerce system in the world, servicing 11,000 clients).
"With Metacloud, the enthusiasm around cloud in the
enterprise finally has a solution worthy of the hype," said Ryan Floyd,
founding general partner at Storm Ventures. "While other vendors in this space
are talking about what they plan to deliver, IT organizations now have a fully
functional solution from Metacloud with all the reliability and predictability
of the best enterprise class virtualization solutions on the market."
Learn about Metacloud
at OpenStack Summit San Diego 2012. During the
Summit, attendees are invited to visit the Metacloud booth and build an
OpenStack cloud through Metacloud Test Drive, a fully featured interactive
product demo. For additional
information, visit
testdrive.metacloud.com.