6 Cloud, Big Data Startups To Watch
June 21, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
SaltStack is a Salt Lake City startup that beat out five other startups to win the Structure 2013 LaunchPad competition. Actually, the two companies committed to DevOps types of systems emerged as the winners. A three-judge panel of venture capitalists — Luis Robles of Sequoia Capital, Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad and Bipul Sinha of Lightspeed Venture Partners — selected SaltStack for its comprehensive deployment management system and its early traction and rapid buildup of customers. The Salt open source project on which it is based is only two years old.
CEO and co-founder Marc Chenn said developer interest in Salt, a Python-based system, has propelled it into the top 10 open source projects in the world, ranking just behind the big cloud project, OpenStack, according to a GitHub ranking in December. SaltStack itself is "cloud agnostic" and can be used on top of multiple cloud systems…
Most enterprises still manage servers through manual processes carried out by systems administrators, who at most can handle 50 servers, are forced to work 60 hour work weeks and provide "a breeding ground for Murphy’s Law," said Chenn. Much of their work could be taken over by SaltStack…
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