Puppet Seeks Wider IT Automation Market - Network Computing
The update to Puppet Labs' IT automation software, Puppet Enterprise 2.0, includes cloud provisioning and change monitoring and management orchestration, and is intended to attract a wider audience, says CEO Luke Kanies. He believes the addition of a graphical user interface to replace the more tech-friendly command-line interface should make the software more accessible and attractive to organizations looking to provision new applications and respond to infrastructure changes faster.
Founded in 2005, the company shipped its first open source Puppet Project the same year, and the agent-based client-server solution now manages millions of nodes across thousands of organizations. Customers include Google, Apple, Twitter, Citrix and Oracle/Sun.