Enthought, Inc. and PiCloud Announce Cloud Computing Partnership

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Enthought, Inc. and PiCloud, Inc. today announced a partnership that integrates PiCloud's cloud-computing platform service into Enthought's market-leading EPD Python programming language distribution.  This partnership lets customers using Enthought's EPD seamlessly offload their scientific computation onto PiCloud's high-performance cluster that automatically scales to meet their evolving computing needs.  

"With this partnership, we're bringing PiCloud's leadership in high-performance cloud computing for Python to the thousands of users of our leading EPD product," said Eric Jones, Enthought's CEO.  "Our customers can now easily leverage the power and efficiency using clusters for robust computational needs without having to manage, maintain, or configure virtual servers.  We think this is a great offering for our customers and the Python community."

"We are excited to be in partnership with Enthought to bring the benefits of cloud computing to the Python community," said Ken Elkabany, CEO of PiCloud.  "Enthought is an ideal partner for us given its dedication to Python computing, its impressive client list in academia and commercial markets, and its global leadership in computationally intensive, scientific computing."

To learn more about Enthought, PiCloud and how this partnership could benefit you and your organization, join us for a webinar this Friday, February 5, 2010, at 1:00pm CST.  The webinar is free and you can register for it at www.enthought.com.

About Enthought:  

Enthought was founded in 2001 with the mission of improving the way scientific computing is accomplished by providing powerful tools and services to our customers.  We provide a marketing-leading Python distribution, Python programming training, and software development and consulting services.  Our clients include world renown hedge funds, major energy companies, leading consumer goods companies, national labs, and many more organizations large and small.  We are headquartered in Austin, Texas and have a European office in Brussels.   For more information visit us at www.enthought.com.

About PiCloud:

PiCloud's mission is to simplify cloud computing.  Founded in 2009, PiCloud has developed the first language-integrated cloud computing platform.  By offering a platform that is elastic, on-demand, and easy to use, while still free of vendor lock-in, PiCloud has made the cloud more accessible for businesses worldwide.  PiCloud, Inc. was founded in 2009 by UC Berkeley graduates and is based in Sunnyvale, CA.  For more information visit us at www.picloud.com.

SOURCE Enthought, Inc.