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VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future

VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future

By Ben Kepes on January 28, 2013

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 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged cloud computing, devops, Information technology management, Luke Kanies, puppet, Puppet Labs, red hat, vmware

Re:Invent Announcements–Boundary Introduces Pre-Emptive Monitoring

Re:Invent Announcements–Boundary Introduces Pre-Emptive Monitoring

By Ben Kepes on November 27, 2012

This week marks the first Amazon Web Services user conference. The AWS event, re:Invent, is being held in Las Vegas and given the massive awareness that AWS and its ecosystem has, we should see lots of product announcements from both Amazon themselves and ecosystem companies. First up is Boundary who is today releasing a new […]

Posted in Business, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, Boundary, cloud computing, las vegas, microsoft, Puppet Labs | 1 Response

Ping Identity – Managing and Monitoring Through Cloud Outages

Ping Identity – Managing and Monitoring Through Cloud Outages

By Ben Kepes on November 7, 2012

For anyone who has been living under a rock for a few weeks, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had an outage a week or so back which was the latest in a relatively long list of outages that has plagued their US-East region. Commentary has generally been voiced in two areas – the naysayers have come […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, automation, Boundary, monitoring, ping identity, Puppet Labs | 3 Responses

Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

By Ben Kepes on April 17, 2012

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, […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged dell, morphlabs, openstack, opscode, puppet, Puppet Labs

Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies’ Sitrep

Reality Distortion Field : 17 Companies’ Sitrep

By Adron Hall on December 12, 2011

I’m sitting on the bus this morning. As happens almost every day of the week. I’m flipping pages, sort of, it’s an eBook on my Kindle App. I’m reading about Steve Jobs taking over the Macintosh Program at Apple. How things started to fall into place for Apple, for the Macintosh, and how Jobs saw […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Open Source, Platforms, Strategy, Technology | Tagged Amazon Web Services, appfog, appharbor, Apple, aws, azure, cloud, cloud computing, Cloud Speak, cloudability, Cloudbees, Cloudfoundry, engineyard, heroku, howard hughes, Joyent, Macintosh, mongohq, mongolabs, nodejitsu, nodester, opscode, phpfog, Puppet Labs, steve jobs, The Future, utility computing | 3 Responses

Puppet Labs Scores Series C

Puppet Labs Scores Series C

By Ben Kepes on November 29, 2011

In an indication of both the general frothiness of the investment space, and the excitement that investors have in cloud services, automation software vendor Puppet Labs is today announcing a $8.5M series C funding round which includes a strategic move by Cisco, Google and VMware. Puppet Labs has gained some big name customers including Zynga, […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure | Tagged automation, cloud computing, openstack, Puppet Labs, rightscale, Stanford University, vmware, zenoss

Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

By Ben Kepes on November 15, 2011

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, […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, amazon ec2, chef, devops, microsoft, puppet, Puppet Labs | 1 Response

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