Piston plans to make a limited offering of a preview version of PentOS Monday, followed by general availability Nov. 29.

McKenty claims that PentOS is the first enterprise implementation of CloudAudit, a set of common interfaces for automating cloud functions like audit and assurance. That means enterprise users can decide to work with a public cloud provider that also complies with CloudAudit and be assured that all of their cloud operations meet necessary requirements like HIPAA.

McKenty isn't the only former developer of the NASA cloud to try to build tools to help enterprises build private clouds. Chris Kemp, the former CTO of NASA who also helped build its cloud, that is developing an appliance aimed at making it easier for enterprises to build private clouds.

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