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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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