StackStorm,
a software company leading the third wave of operations automation,
today emerged from stealth mode to introduce a private beta program for
the company’s first product. Focused on delivering the increased
productivity of DevOps approaches to a broader market, StackStorm’s
vision – and how it defines the third wave of operations automation – is
to make self-driving data centers that learn how to operate more
efficiently. StackStorm is currently focused on enterprises deploying
OpenStack.
“Succeeding in DevOps approaches to operations is critically important
and yet extremely challenging,” said Mike Kavis, analyst at The
Virtualization Practice. “Done right, DevOps leads to a step function
improvement in operational efficiency and in the ability to meet the
real needs of IT users. StackStorm’s vision of automating the
automators, improving the ability to create and manage operations
automations, is a leap in the right direction for DevOps to be more
broadly adopted.”
Improving visibility and productivity for DevOps
StackStorm software leverages existing configuration management and
monitoring solutions to deliver operations automation that ties together
loosely coupled, heterogeneous cloud infrastructures with simple to use
and powerful logic. These sophisticated capabilities provide the ability
for users to tie together multiple automations or actions.
"Making operations automation transparent, trusted and scalable makes a
world of difference to companies looking to develop, deploy and operate
software defined data centers," said Evan Powell, CEO of StackStorm.
"The world’s top cloud infrastructure operators are 10-100x more
productive than the average operator thanks in part to homemade
operations automation like Facebook’s FBAR. We built StackStorm to
deliver exactly this kind of software and productivity boost to the
broader market.”
Founded by proven infrastructure executives
StackStorm was co-founded by Evan Powell and Dmitri Zimine. Most
recently founding CEO of Nexenta Systems, Powell led the transformation
of the storage industry towards a software defined future and achieved
an excess of $350 million in partner sales. Prior to Nexenta, Powell was
founding CEO of performance management software company Clarus Systems,
now owned by Riverbed Technologies.
Most recently, Zimine was director of R&D, cloud infrastructure at
VMware. Prior to VMware, he was senior director of engineering and chief
architect at Opalis, where he helped lead the first wave of operations.
Opalis was purchased by Microsoft and is now one of the world's most
broadly deployed operations automation solutions, now known as System
Center Orchestrator. Zimine also led development efforts at VMware on
vSphere.
StackStorm’s advisory board includes the VP of cloud infrastructure at
eBay/PayPal, Ryan Granard, noted DevOps speaker and technical operation
engineer at GitHub, James Fryman, and the director of platform, Workday,
Carmine Rimi, as well as noted former product and company leaders from
VMware and Opalis (Microsoft).
"I am impressed with StackStorm’s team and vision. The future of IT
Operations and Service Delivery requires a rock-solid infrastructure
that is automated and has the agility to adapt to ever changing business
requirements. By bringing in proven workflows from Web Scale Operations
in OpenStack and other heterogeneous environments, StackStorm enables
this vision and further lowers the barrier to entry for cross-functional
collaboration and delivery across the stack,” said James Fryman,
technical operations, GitHub.
"Software that is operated and automated at scale by operations
automation software is eating the world,” said Dmitri Zimine, co-founder
and CTO at StackStorm. “At Opalis we helped lead the first,
pre-virtualization, wave of operations automation. DevOps has led to the
third wave of operations automation, surpassing the second wave, the
automation of virtualization. We look forward to doing our part to
enable broad adoption of DevOps best practices, and bringing the third
wave of operations automation to the enterprise.”
StackStorm will be exhibiting in booth E26 at the OpenStack Summit
taking place in Atlanta, May 12-16. CEO Evan Powell will also be
presenting “Automate the Automators: StackStorm's Vision for
Self-Driving Data Centers” on May 12 at 4:40 pm in the demo theater.
Availability
StackStorm software is available via a private, invitation-only beta.
Interested users can request an invitation at: www.stackstorm.com/beta.