StratoScale is one of the few remaining scale out private clouds that are based on parts of the OpenStack platform. Today, StratoScale offers APIs similar to Amazon EC2, S3 and EBS and with the acquisition of Tesora, the company is expected to soon offer an on-site equivalent to AWS Relational Database Services. In this EMA Cloud Rant, John Myers and Torsten Volk will analyze the strategic fit and potential of this acquisition. For questions, please tweet @torstenvolk or @johnlmyers44