Metacloud

Metacloud was an OpenStack-based private-cloud company founded in 2011 in Pasadena, California by former infrastructure engineers from Yahoo! and Ticketmaster. It let enterprises run production OpenStack private clouds on their own hardware, fully operated as a managed service. Metacloud raised a $10M Series A led by Canaan Partners (with Storm Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures) and was acquired by Cisco in 2014, where it became Cisco Metapod and later Cisco Metacloud before the product line was retired. There is no independent Metacloud company or first-party developer API surface today; the platform exposed standard OpenStack APIs rather than a proprietary API.

Metacloud is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud, Private Cloud, OpenStack, and Infrastructure.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Metacloud
description: Metacloud was an OpenStack-based private-cloud company founded in 2011 in Pasadena, California by former infrastructure
  engineers from Yahoo! and Ticketmaster. It let enterprises run production OpenStack private clouds on their own hardware,
  fully operated as a managed service. Metacloud raised a $10M Series A led by Canaan Partners (with Storm Ventures and AME
  Cloud Ventures) and was acquired by Cisco in 2014, where it became Cisco Metapod and later Cisco Metacloud before the product
  line was retired. There is no independent Metacloud company or first-party developer API surface today; the platform exposed
  standard OpenStack APIs rather than a proprietary API.
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x-acquired-by: cisco
x-acquired-year: 2014
x-defunct: true
x-defunct-note: Acquired by Cisco in 2014 (Cisco Metapod / Cisco Metacloud); product line since retired. No live independent
  domain or first-party API surface.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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- Private Cloud
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- Infrastructure
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maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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