Cloud Computing: VMware Invests $30 Million In Puppet Labs
January 24, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
Two years ago, VMware made a small, tentative investment in OpenStack collaborator Puppet Labs, as one of six investors providing the firm with $8.5 million. Wednesday, VMware extended its support with another $30 million investment in Puppet, and there is a string attached.
VMware will appoint one of its executives to the Puppet Labs board, as happens frequently in cases of major venture capital investments. VMware was not prepared Wednesday to name who will fill the seat. But the increased funding from the virtualization market leader clearly shows it has a more direct interest in the open source code firm’s work this time around; it’s seeking a closer alignment of their respective product lines, not to mention a rapprochement with the open source community…
Puppet Labs founder and CEO Luke Kanies said in a blog post Wednesday that over the past year Puppet was already working closely with VMware. Its commercial product, Puppet Enterprise, is a configuration management system that lets system admins automatically commission, configure and manage virtual machines, making use of VMware’s vSphere API. VMware’s vFabric Application Director has been integrated with Puppet Enterprise to help provision application workloads…
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