If you really must maintain your own data center, it's nice if you can minimize the number of people who work there. A startup called StackStorm wants to help you do that. Stackstorm, which has ...

How many technicians does it take to run a company's IT department? Today, the answer varies massively depending on the company. In a run-of-the-mill IT department, the average ratio of technicians to ...

Data-center automation is a real market with real demand. Opalis, acquired by Microsoft, showed us that. Now Opalis' chief architect and Nexenta's former CEO are back to update the Sort of. Especially ...

StackStorm, staffed by former members of GitHub, Puppet Labs, SwiftStack, Rackspace, and the Apache Libcloud team, has launched the first public version of its eponymous open source operations ...