About Us
PiCloud's mission is to simplify cloud computing. Cloud computing has revolutionized the way we allocate, provision, and pay for servers. With the appropriate know-how, renting a virtual server in a faraway datacenter can be done in minutes. While this is a momentous victory for developers worldwide, we believe that the pinnacle of cloud computing is achieved only when there is an indifference to its presence.
The founders' varied experiences led them to the following conclusion: Servers are rarely a technology businesses' point of differentiation. Thus, an easy, transparent, and automated way of provisioning software and algorithms across the cloud in a scalable way eliminates a significant amount of the repetitive server design, administration, and hassle all companies deal with.
We decided that the API of choice for manipulating the cloud, and more generally, any distributed system, is the programming language already being used to develop the businesses' software. This allows for the highest level of granularity with regards to what should run on the cloud, while leaving the developer free of constraints. Most importantly, first-time developers can get on the cloud in only minutes, and are unaware of the cloud of servers they are using. With these goals in mind, PiCloud has developed the first language-integrated cloud-computing platform.
PiCloud, Inc. was founded by UC Berkeley graduates and is based in Sunnyvale, CA.