Recognized for creating new opportunities in cloud computing and SaaS
PORTLAND, OR – March 21, 2011 – Puppet Labs™, a leading provider of open source systems management solutions, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDemand Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnDemand 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Puppet Labs was specially selected for the cloud infrastructure category by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Puppet Labs and the OnDemand Top 100 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnDemand event on March 28th, 2011, at Hewlett-Packard’s Worldwide Headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.
This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on how the Internet is disrupting how companies—from small businesses to large enterprises—create, store, distribute, analyze, and take advantage of their mission-critical data.
“As the digital information created by businesses continues to explode at astronomical rates, the need to store, manage, socialize, and share this information is becoming extremely challenging,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “By providing innovative technologies that help enterprises better compete in this new era of information complexity and move their data out into the cloud, the OnDemand 100 represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace.”
The OnDemand 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2011 list.
The key differences between Puppet and competing tools are based on both the product and the company: Puppet achieves power through simplicity rather than complexity and Puppet Labs is focused on building a market and finding users rather than just selling a moderately better product to an existing market. Since Luke Kanies established Puppet Labs in 2005, Puppet has become the leading open source systems management solution. With more than 50,000 organizations actively using Puppet to manage millions of machines, Puppet provides system administrators with a simplified platform that allows for consistent, transparent, and flexible systems management.
A full list of all the OnDemand Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at: http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2011-OnDemand-100-Top-Private-Companies
“My experiences as a sysadmin and a data center automation consultant were the source of my ideas about what makes great automation software, and six years of building Puppet Labs have crystallized what the market opportunity is around that,” said Luke Kanies, CEO and founder of Puppet Labs. “I am proud to be recognized among other leaders who sought to change and improve pre-existing systems.”
About Puppet Labs
Puppet Labs (www.puppetlabs.com) develops and commercially supports Puppet, the leading open source platform for enterprise systems management. With millions of nodes under management and thousands of users, including Twitter, NYSE, Zynga, Genentech, Match.com, eBay, NYU, and Oracle, Puppet standardizes the way IT staff deploy and manage infrastructure in the enterprise and the cloud. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Puppet Labs is funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True Ventures, Radar Partners and Emerson St. Partners
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen Silicon Valley, and GoingGreen East. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.
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