Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. the software company founded in 2011 by several of the creators of OpenStack™, including former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, and former Rackspace luminary Christopher MacGown, has announced the launch of Piston Enterprise OS™ (pentOS™), which it claims is the first enterprise OpenStack cloud operating system specifically focused on security and easy operation of private clouds.

OpenStack claims to be the fastest-growing open source project in the world, with over 1,550 contributors and 110 participating companies including Rackspace, NASA, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, Arista Networks, Microsoft and Dell.

Joshua McKenty, Piston CEO and Co-founder, commented: “We’re building the most secure and feature-rich distribution of OpenStack in the world. We plan to define the future of secure private cloud, while propelling OpenStack forward with ongoing and significant contributions to the open source codebase.”