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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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  • ComodIT–IT Automation as a Service

    February 11, 2013

    Business
    chef, CloudSwitch, Configuration management, enStratus, Open source, puppet, RightScale, Software 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…

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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 […]

    CloudAve is sponsored by Salesforce.com, Workday and Zoho.

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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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  • 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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  • Cooking up Storm with CloudFormation

    March 2, 2011

    Business
    Cfengine, chef, cloud computing, CloudFormation, puppet
     

    Last week was a bit of a blur for me (more here for those who haven’t caught up) but one of the highlights was a really fun CloudCamp held during a flying visit to Sydney. One of the sessions…

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