Kleiner backs server management company Puppet Labs
Prominent venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers announced that it’s backing Puppet Labs , the company behind an open source data center management tool called Puppet, by leading a new $5 million round of funding. The Portland, Ore. company (formerly known as Reductive Labs) says a number of important organizations already use Puppet, including Digg, Twitter, Genentech, Oracle/Sun, and Stanford University. It’s supposed to be a simplified tool for systems administrators that “takes the pain out of manually configuring servers.” Puppet makes it easy to describe the configuration of a company’s current servers, and therefore repeat that configuration on new systems. And since it’s opne source, Puppet also includes hundreds or free, community-developed modules. Puppet Labs says Puppet has thousands of users, and that it has more than 60 customers for its product support, training, and professional servers
