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Roundup: Romonet, Platform Computing, Salesforce.com
December 1st, 2011 : John Rath
Romonet announces update to Prognose suite, Platform Compouting drives scientific breakthroughs, Salesforce.com unveils social marketing cloud. Read More
Puppet Labs Raises $8.5M from Tech Heavyweights
November 29th, 2011 : Colleen Miller
Puppet Labs, provider of IT automation software, announced a $8.5 million round of Series C funding from Cisco, VMware and Google Ventures. The investment will support accelerated growth of the company, according to CEO Luke Kanies. Read More
Is Maintenance Making Your Facility Less Reliable?
November 17th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Is "preventive maintenance" not really that preventive after all? In the data center, where human error is a leading cause of downtime, a vigorous maintenance schedule can actually make a facility less reliable, according to several speakers at this week's 7x24 Exchange Fall Conference. Read More
Puppet Labs Announces Puppet Enterprise 2.0
September 22nd, 2011 : Colleen Miller
Puppet Labs announced the release of its Enterprise 2.0 version today, adding cloud provisioning, change monitoring and management from a single graphic console to the Puppet platform. Read More
Sentilla Raises $15 Million for DCIM Offering
August 22nd, 2011 : Rich Miller
Sentilla Corporation, which provides energy management technology for data centers, has secured $15 million in Series C financing and will use the funding to expand its sales and marketing operations. Read More
Mitch Hill Takes Helm as CEO of Opscode
August 9th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Cloud automation specialist Opscode, Inc. has named Mitch Hill as Chief Executive Officer, the company said today. Hill will succeed co-founder Jesse Robbins, who will now serve as Opscode’s Chief Community Officer and steward the community ecosystem around Opscode's Chef software. Read More
SynapSense Focusing on the ROI in DCIM
August 4th, 2011 : Rich Miller
DCIM is the latest hot four-letter acronym in the data center industry. In seeking to differentiate itself in an increasingly crowded DCIM market, SynapSense, which makes technology that helps data center operators monitor energy use, says it is focusing on a three-letter acronym: ROI. Read More
Why DCIM, Why Now.
July 27th, 2011 : Kevin Normandeau
Barry J. Needle, President, AGO Research, in a paper sponsored by Power Analytics provides a look into what data center infrastructure management is and why it is the key to managing the data center of the future. DCIM, as he explains, comprises systems performance management and building management systems. This paper focuses on systems performance and DCIM tools. Read More
SynapSense Raises $16 Million for DCIM
July 20th, 2011 : Rich Miller
SynapSense has secured $16 million in a Series C round financing to expand company operations.The company's wireless sensor technology helps data center operators monitor operating conditions and energy use. Read More