Metacloud, Inc., which deploys and supports OpenStack-based private clouds for some of the world's largest enterprises, today announced that Conner Grey, Google's former head of SRE for Southern California, has joined the company as the vice president of operations. In this role he will be responsible for heading up the scalability architecture of Metacloud's global network of enterprise private clouds.

"We're thrilled to have Conner on board," said Metacloud co-founder and CEO Sean Lynch. "He shares the type of large-scale operations pedigree we expect from our top technical executives, allowing us to continue to deliver the type of OpenStack stability our customers require."

Grey was with Google's vaunted Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization in Southern California for most of a decade, where he was responsible for ensuring the scalability and security of Google's most revenue-critical ad optimization services. This meant building and running the large scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant software systems and infrastructure that ensure Google's services are fast and reliable for billions of users.

"I have boundless respect for Google's role as one of the early pioneers of what we've since come to call cloud computing, but I was excited to join a company with a modern take on bringing the lessons learned by those early efforts to a much broader array of users," said Grey. "I believe that Metacloud has created the best model for bringing the theoretical benefits of cloud computing into the real world. The team at Metacloud is of the absolutely highest caliber I have ever seen. They are brilliant, dedicated, focused, and practical: exactly the type of people that I want to have on my side."

Prior to his engagement at Google, Mr. Grey was with Yahoo! for five years, where he worked as a senior systems engineer. In all, he has 20 years of operations experience at a series of iconic Southern California tech companies, from Earthlink and Digital Planet to USWeb and Idealab.

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About Metacloud

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Pasadena, California, Metacloud deploys and supports private cloud solutions for some of the world's largest enterprises. The company's full-lifecycle cloud model, consisting of OpenStack-based software deployed on their clients' existing hardware, allows them to deliver a production-ready, easy-to-consume cloud infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of competitor solutions. Metacloud is backed by Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Ventures and is led by industry veterans from Yahoo! and Ticketmaster. Metacloud is an OpenStack Foundation member and an active contributor to the project. For more information, visit www.metacloud.com or connect with Metacloud on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

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