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Evan Powell

http://www.stackstorm.com
Evan Powell is the CEO and Co-Founder of StackStorm, a software company leading the third wave of operations automation and delivering the increased productivity of DevOps approaches to a broader market. StackStorm software is currently available via a private, invitation-only beta. Interested users can request an invitation at: www.stackstorm.com/beta. Previously, as founding CEO of Nexenta Systems, Evan 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, Evan was founding CEO of performance management software company Clarus Systems, now owned by Riverbed Technologies. Evan was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the leading European venture fund Finaves in 2010 and was named one of the Top Ten Leaders in Storage in 2012.
Enough monitoring. Act!

Enough monitoring. Act!

| auto-remediation, OODA
Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the auto-remediation These days StackStorm - and other approaches to auto-remediation and event driven automation more generally - are getting broadly adopted. Everyone ...
AWS Lambda - Useful for DevOps Automation?

AWS Lambda – Useful for DevOps Automation?

One of the highlights of AWS re:Invent, judging by the twitter stream and the points emphasized in Amazon CTO Werner Vogel’s Day 2 keynote and blog post, was the launch of Lambda ...
DevOps > Cloud, SaaS, SDDC, and apple pie

DevOps > Cloud, SaaS, SDDC, and apple pie

Over the weekend I was chatting with a really successful venture investor who recently published a top trends list. That made me think about DevOps vs. Cloud and vs. SaaS and vs ...
From Orwellian Nightmares To Unicorns: Why I’m All In On DevOps

From Orwellian Nightmares To Unicorns: Why I’m All In On DevOps

| google, machine learning
Over the years I’ve helped literally thousands of customers gain efficiencies in their data centers. I’ve met and become friendly with a lot of IT pros but I’ve got to admit – ...
User pragmatism is stronger than ever

User pragmatism is stronger than ever

| open source, openstack, pragmatist
This is the third of a series of posts about why we thought the world needed another DevOps oriented company and so invested in and started StackStorm.   I hope we are ...
Let’s keep the countdown going: Reason #2 for StackStorm to join the fray

Let’s keep the countdown going: Reason #2 for StackStorm to join the fray

| stackstorm, unicorns
Stackstorm is a new company focused on automation, operations and DevOps. It’s co-founder and CEO Evan Powell has been keeping a running journal as the company made ready to emerge from stealth ...
Automation, Operations, DevOps - What We Thought Was Missing

Automation, Operations, DevOps – What We Thought Was Missing

| automation, operations, stackstorm
Stackstorm is a new company focused on automation, operations and DevOps. It's co-founder and CEO Evan Powell has been keeping a running journal as the company made ready to emerge from stealth ...