The point of Cisco's MetaPod is to give the customers a managed OpenStack release for private cloud IAAS with the customer choice of PAAS offering. Customers can choose one of the two most popular PAAS offerings in Appenda or CloudFoundry. In many cases, Cisco has found that the cost of this IAAS private cloud offering can yield significant cost savings over traditional public cloud offerings (e.g. AWS). In addition to the choice of PAAS, this latest release of Metapod furthers its leadership in orchestration, control and security of the IAAS private cloud environment.