Tag Archives: Puppet Labs

May 7, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Boundary Delivers Consolidated IT Ops

By Ben Kepes

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 based on cloud-readiness and one-second visualizations around performance. Today they’re extending

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January 28, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

VMware, Puppet Labs and an Infrastructure Future

By Ben Kepes

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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November 27, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Re:Invent Announcements–Boundary Introduces Pre-Emptive Monitoring

By Ben Kepes

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

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November 7, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Ping Identity – Managing and Monitoring Through Cloud Outages

By Ben Kepes

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

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April 17, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

By Ben Kepes

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

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November 29, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Puppet Labs Scores Series C

By Ben Kepes

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

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November 15, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding

By Ben Kepes

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

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March 8, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Nimbula goes GA and Creates an Ecosystem

By Ben Kepes

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 today making a double announcement, the first involved the release to

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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