ComodIT–IT Automation as a Service
I’m always interested to speak with companies trying to build innovative solutions outside of the US. Despite living away from the epicenter of technology myself, all to often I find myself displaying a Valley-centric perspective on companies and the solutions they bring to market. It’s good for all of us
VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future
News recently that VMware, fresh from spinning out most of its developer focused non-virtualization assets in the Pivotal Initiative, has put a huge $30M finding into Puppet Labs. As part of the deal, VMware and Puppet will team up to produce a new IT management solution for VMware customers to use that leverages the automation [...]
Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations
Looking past the politics of whose Cloud stack is the best for a moment, the undeniably truth remains that no matter what you use, tools to help deploy and automate said cloud are becoming increasingly critical – this is even more the case in an ecosystem that is becoming ever more heterogeneous. Given this fact, [...]
Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding
Whenever technology platforms change, there is a scramble to provide the underlying services upon which the new paradigm sits. The move to the cloud is no different and cloud monitoring is one area where there is a significant amount of activity in terms of startups being founded and funded. Today it’s the turn of Boundary, [...]
Amazon Quietly Announces AWS CloudFormer
Amazon made a quiet announcement on Wednesday in their forums about a release of a new prototype tool called AWS CloudFormer. This is a deviation from the usual practice where they announce newer features to their cloud offerings, however tiny the feature is, through a midnight blog post. The new tool allows users to create [...]
Influencers? You mean under the Influence?
Thanks to Zoli Erdos for the last bit to the title. I’ve gotten worked up a bit about the Influence game in general and Klout in particular, resulting in a few posts of which “Klout. Nail. Coffin. Who cares?” was the last one. This post is a bit about Klout, but not really (wouldn’t want [...]
AWS CloudFormation: Poaching The Ecosystem?
Amazon Web Services (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced AWS CloudFormation, which lets developers and system admins use recipes to create and provision resources in Amazon cloud. This is conceptually similar to Opscode’s Chef Recipes which lets ops folks configure some aspect of the systems in their ecosystem. Clearly, AWS must have seen how Chef [...]
