Puppet Labs provides system management and data center automation software for enterprises and the cloud

Data Center automation start-up puppet Labs, which provides automated operation and maintenance management platform, announced today that it received $40 million trillion in e-round financing.

Puppet Labs provides system management and data center automation software for enterprises and the cloud. The company's flagship product, Puppet, is an Open-source data center automation and configuration Management framework that provides system administrators with an easy-to-use platform for transparent, flexible system management. With this platform, it will be easier for system administrators to install, configure, and manage virtualization and cloud facilities. 2012, Puppet launched its first commercial version of the product puppet Enterprise. There are currently over 18,000 companies using puppet software.

With the growing popularity of DevOps, which is designed to fill the development and operational divide, Puppet has become increasingly popular as a tool for reducing operational difficulties and increasing deployment speed. Other competitors in the market include chef, Saltstack and Ansible, among others. But from the scale of application, puppet still maintains the obvious leading advantage.

One of the purposes of this round of financing is to maintain a leading edge, while extending the scope of automation management to network and storage resources other than the computing engine. In addition, puppet will use funds for internationalization expansion.

Established in 2005, puppet currently employs 300 people. There are more than 500 paying customers, including Bank of America, Cisco, ebay and NYSE.

This round of financing participants are all the original investors, including Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner, VMware and so on. Its total financing has reached $86 million trillion after the round.