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  • Puppet Labs Acqu-hires Cloudsmith

    July 17, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, Company, Geppetto, Information technology management, Integrated development environment, Programming, puppet, Puppet Labs
     

    In another good example of a rollup of IT management companies, Puppet Labs is today announcing that they have acquired development tool vendor Cloudsmith. Cloudsmith is best known for its Stack Hammer product, a web service that lets developers…

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  • The Empire Strikes Back – VMware Launches Hybrid Cloud Service

    May 21, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, data center, e-commerce, Pat Gelsinger, Puppet Labs, vCloud, vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware, vSphere
     

    There’s a fair few VMware folks scratching their heads today and wondering when the world changed quite so much. The company today announced its hybrid cloud solution, avialable today on an early access program. GA is slated for Q3…

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  • Boundary Delivers Consolidated IT Ops

    May 7, 2013

    Business
    AppDynamics, Application Lifecycle Management, Boundary, Business transaction management, Nagios, NewRelic, Puppet Labs, Splunk
     

    Boundary is an interesting company and one of a handful of vendors that are reinventing what application monitoring means in a world where application stacks are more complex, more modular, more disconnected and more flexible. Boundary is selling itself…

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  • VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future

    January 28, 2013

    Business
    cloud computing, DevOps, Information technology management, Luke Kanies, puppet, Puppet Labs, Red Hat, VMware
     

    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 […]

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  • Re:Invent Announcements–Boundary Introduces Pre-Emptive Monitoring

    November 27, 2012

    Business
    amazon, amazon web services, AWS, Boundary, cloud computing, Las Vegas, Microsoft, Puppet Labs
     

    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…

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  • Ping Identity – Managing and Monitoring Through Cloud Outages

    November 7, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, automation, Boundary, Monitoring, ping identity, Puppet Labs
     

    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…

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  • Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

    April 17, 2012

    Business
    Dell, George Reese, Morphlabs, OpenStack, Opscode, puppet, Puppet Labs, Winston Damarillo
     

    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…

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  • Puppet Labs Scores Series C

    November 29, 2011

    Business
    automation, cloud computing, OpenStack, Puppet Labs, RightScale, Stanford University, VMware, Zenoss
     

    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…

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  • Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

    November 15, 2011

    Business
    amazon, Amazon EC2, chef, DevOps, Microsoft, puppet, Puppet Labs
     

    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…

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  • Nimbula goes GA and Creates an Ecosystem

    March 8, 2011

    Business
    Amazon EC2, enStratus, Nimbula, Opscode, Puppet Labs, Scalr, Skytap, VMware
     

    I’ve written previously about Nimbula (see here) the company founded by the creators of Amazon’s EC2 product to; Blend Amazon EC2-like scale, agility and efficiency, with private infrastructure customization and control Previously only available to beta testers, Nimbula is…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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