Cisco DevNet: Metacloud - Overview

Spend your valuable time coding and building, not wrangling infrastructure and systems. You need to move fast, which requires access to your favorite tools and self-service agility, which traditional virtualization solutions can’t provide. You want a public cloud experience, one that’s fast and easy. However, at scale, the costs and inconsistent performance of public clouds becomes an issue. You deserve the best of worlds, without compromise. Meet Cisco Metacloud™ - a fast, easy, and predictable public cloud experience, all in your data center.

Metacloud is not a traditional OpenStack distribution. Our world-class OpenStack engineering and operations teams (formerly Metacloud and Piston Cloud) have built it for stability, superior performance, and scale, instead of using the latest OpenStack release. Metacloud is fast, easy, and predictable, delivering the true public cloud experience that you have come to expect, all in your data center. Enjoy self-service access to compute, networking, and storage resources for rapid development and the flexibility of building via a GUI Console, Unified CLI, or OpenStack and AWS APIs.

Best yet, you don’t have to resort to infamous “Shadow IT” to get the agility you need. Your IT Admins and DevOps engineers will love Metacloud, with visibility into performance and utilization. We give your IT team control and security with a solution that is on your premises and behind your firewall. It’s a production-ready, OpenStack-based solution that we engineer, deploy, and remotely operate on your behalf, 24 x7. With Metacloud, you enjoy the best of both worlds, without compromise.

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Common Metacloud Use Cases

Improved Control, Economics, and Agility

From powering 5-10 billion big data production transactions a day to empowering developers, our customers have leveraged Metacloud for various use cases to meet their needs:

When you use public cloud at scale, you not only pay a premium — you sacrifice both performance and control. With Metacloud however, you get the public cloud experience you like, with greater administrative control, and without having to worry about “noisy neighbors” compromising application performance.

Spiky, unpredictable workloads are fine for public cloud. But if you’ve run consistent, high volume workloads there, you know it gets really expensive, really fast. Big data is truly one of the best use cases for Metacloud, and one that shows the most impressive savings over public cloud. Many of our customers deploy cloudy data technologies such as Percona and Hadoop, in production, at a fraction of the cost of what they were paying in the public cloud.

Media-, social-, and content-rich applications require performance, control, and cost efficiency at scale. From storage to streaming, and archiving to analysis, Cisco packages and operates Metacloud to run effortlessly in large-scale implementations.

With Metacloud, users get self-service access to resources for rapid software development. Administrators can quickly create new projects, assign users, and set quotas on cloud usage, all while having full visibility into stack health, performance, and capacity. They can also create and instantly deploy custom gold images, flavors, and sizes

A Fast, Easy, and Predictable Public Cloud Experience, All in Your Data Center

Metacloud

Learn more about Metacloud

Common Metacloud Use Cases

Improved Control, Economics, and Agility

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