Cisco joins $8m gang, shovels cash into ex-NASA OpenStack cloud upstart

Cisco has joined a trio of investors committing $8m to OpenStack startup Piston Cloud, which has a tech team led by an ex-NASA brain. The networking giant is committing the money as part of Series B funding with the Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures. They join existing investors Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad and True …

[Graham 24]

(B/M) illion

I think you'll find those billions are in fact millions.

[Khaptain]

Is it Billions or Millions

>and Piston Cloud has said the money would be used to “enhance” products, grow the customer base and establish new partnerships

With 8 Billion they can do a lot more than that:

Buy a couple of Islands, a luxury yacht or two, a football team and "El Reg"..........