Puppet Labs Named 2012 CODiE Award Finalist

Puppet Labs Named 2012 CODiE Award Finalist

Puppet Enterprise 2.0 Selected “Best Systems Management Solution” Finalist



Portland, OR — March 22, 2012 — Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software for system administrators, today announced that they have been recognized as a finalist for the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 27th annual CODiE Awards.

Puppet Enterprise 2.0, nominated in the “Best Systems Management Solution” category, helps system administrators manage their infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to patch management and compliance. Using Puppet Enterprise, system administrators can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change, scaling from 10s of servers to 1000s, on-premise or in the cloud.

“We’re honored to have been selected as finalists for CODiE’s Best Systems Management Solution,” said Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppet Labs. “From the start, our mission was to create a product that system administrators would love using, and this nomination validates our progress toward fulfilling that vision.”

The SIIA CODiE Awards recognize excellence in the business software, digital content, and education technology industries. In 27 years, SIIA has recognized more than 1,000 companies for achieving greatness in industries that expect innovative thinking and demand market validation.

The CODiE award winners will be announced on May 10, 2012 in conjunction with the All About the Cloud conference for all Business Software categories.

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About Puppet Labs

Puppet Labs, Inc. (www.puppetlabs.com) was founded in 2005 and shipped the first release of the open source Puppet Project later the same year. Puppet’s popularity has since grown to where it now is responsible for managing millions of nodes across thousands of companies and organizations, both on-premise and in the cloud, including Zynga, Citrix, Shopzilla, Match.com, Oracle/Sun, to name a few. In 2011, Puppet Labs shipped its first commercial software product, Puppet Enterprise. Now numbering seventy employees and based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet Labs is backed by investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, VMware, Cisco, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and Emerson Street Partners.

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