After five months in private beta, we’re ready to open up PiCloud to the rest of the world. We would like to thank all of our private beta users who’ve contributed their time, effort, and insight to get PiCloud to where it is today. To celebrate, we’ve credited all beta accounts with 5 additional free compute unit hours (on top of the 5 trial hours). Thank you!
Update #1: Article on TechCrunch
Update #2: Article on VentureBeat
Our official press release:
We’re excited to announce that Gartner has selected PiCloud as a “Cool Vendor” in Application Platforms as a Service. Their report examined platforms that “offer a bridge between the programming practices of familiar application servers (platforms) and the new realities of cloud deployment using application platforms as a service (APaaS)”1, and was “designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services.”1 If you have access to Gartner’s extensive research database, you can find the report here.
We see this as a validation of our approach and execution. By abstracting away servers with our cloud library, we’ve simplified the process of orchestrating hundreds of cores of computing power for scientists, developers, and engineers. No IT team necessary. While our product is still relatively young, the 4 million functions we have processed for our users has confirmed to us that there is a large and growing demand for cloud computing, simplified.
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
1 Gartner “Cool Vendors in Application Platforms as a Service, 2010,” by Yefim V. Natis, Eric Knipp, Massimo Pezzini, Ray Valdes, April 1, 2010.
We’re excited to announce our partnership with the team over at Enthought. Enthought is the de facto curator of the Python scientific community, having significantly supported the development and maintenance of both NumPy and SciPy. In fact, Enthought’s President Travis Oliphant was one of the initial developers of NumPy. We see the PiCloud platform as an incredible tool enabling scientists and engineers in industry and academia alike to seamlessly access a powerful, elastic, and on-demand pool of computing resources. With this partnership, the PiCloud Python library will be included in the market-leading Enthought Python Distribution, instantly giving their scientific customers access to the cloud. The official press release is here.
PiCloud Webinar Tomorrow!
Tomorrow, February 5th, at 11am PST (1pm CST), we will be presenting a webinar on PiCloud through Enthought. The online talk is available to the public. If you would like to attend, please register here.