Cloudscaling is the leading provider of open cloud infrastructure solutions for cloud-ready applications and services.
Cloudscaling is the leading provider of open cloud infrastructure solutions for cloud-ready applications. The Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS) is the first infrastructure-as-a-service solution designed to deliver the cost, performance and scalability benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for public and private clouds. Based on the industry-supported OpenStack open source project, the Cloudscaling OCS delivers a production-grade solution for open cloud infrastructure. Cloudscaling has more production OpenStack software experience than any other company, including successful deployments with customers such as KT (formerly Korea Telecom) and Internap. The Cloudscaling team are industry veterans who have designed and deployed large-scale cloud infrastructure for industry pioneers such as AWS, GoGrid, RightScale and eBay. Founded in 2006, Cloudscaling is headquartered in San Francisco.
Executive Team
Michael Grant
CEO
Michael Grant brings over twenty five years of technology industry executive, marketing, and business management experience to Cloudscaling. In 2003, Michael helped found Redmojo, a heterogeneous virtualization management company where he held the position of CEO.
Randy Bias
Co-Founder and CTO
Randy’s provocative views on the profound disruption caused by cloud computing have made him one of the most influential voices in the industry. He uses this influence to advocate an open and honest debate about which technologies will win in driving cloud to large-scale adoption.
Adam Waters
Co-Founder and COO
Adam Waters offers an extensive background in IP networking, routing, datacenter and large scale network operations. He is responsible of all aspects of business operations.
Paul Guth
Vice President, Technical Operations
Paul is responsible for ensuring that Cloudscaling projects meet predefined benchmarks for performance, security and availability.
William Franklin
Vice President, Engineering
Bill Franklin’s experience spans more than 25 years of leading successful teams of software development technologists in a variety of cross-functional environments.
Troy Angrignon
Vice President, Sales and Partnering
Troy Angrignon is a sales and marketing executive with sixteen years experience in the IT arena, spanning network consulting services, enterprise software, software as a service, web 2.0 software, and cloud computing.
Francesco Paola
Vice President, Client and Partner Services
Francesco is an entrepreneur who brings more than 20 years of experience in e-commerce, software development and professional services.
Board of Directors
Dan Scholnick
General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Fred Wang
General Partner, Trinity Ventures
Randy Bias
Co-Founder and CTO, Cloudscaling
Michael Grant
CEO, Cloudscaling
Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board includes experts with technical and product leadership experience in the field.
Simon Wardley
Computer Sciences Corporation
Chris Brown
Opscode
Benjamin Black
Boundary
Bill Lanfri
Hawkswatch Holdings
Cloudscaling Successes
Open clouds for cloud storage solutions
Open clouds provide cost-competitive public cloud offerings