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Cisco Piston Enterprise OS [EOL] vs Nimbo [EOL] comparison

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We performed a comparison between Cisco Piston Enterprise OS [EOL] and Nimbo [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Cisco Piston Enterprise OS ...
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
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Nimbo [EOL]
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0.0
Number of Reviews
0
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Enterprise677 - PeerSpot reviewer
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BS Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
A simple interface and helpful support for a solution that grows with us
It's a flexible enough tool to submit the changes that you want. It gives you the ability to cancel any loop. You can connect new orchestrations together. It offers enough support so that you don't need to have the need to get another device. The user interface is simple and easy to use.
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Piston Enterprise OS
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Overview

Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) is an enterprise grade cloud operating system meeting the security and governance needs of enterprises wanting to use OpenStack for their infrastructure services. pentOS is an OpenStack distro that builds on top of the OpenStack codebase adding some proprietary features to meet the security and governance needs of the enterprise customers.

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Equinix Professional Services for Cloud (EPS Cloud, formerly Nimbo) provides Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions and migration services, helping enterprise organizations adopt and integrate cloud technologies.

Partnering with cloud platform and product industry leaders, EPS Cloud delivers end-to-end capabilities to help enterprises build scalable, highly available, resilient, cost efficient and secure interconnected cloud environments.

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Sample Customers

Kuwait Petroleum Italia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Medical Information Records, YES Network, Benchmark BuildersInc, Hess Corporation, Wildlife Conservation Society, Mimeo, Robin Hood, Dealogic
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