Puppet Labs Achieves Record Sales in Fiscal Q1 2015

PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwired - May 12, 2015) - Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software, today announces the closing of its best quarter ever in conjunction with its 10th year in business. With a decade of industry experience and community, customer and partner feedback behind it, Puppet Labs software is the de facto standard for IT automation, a prerequisite for adopting DevOps practices.

Luke Kanies, founder and CEO, created the company to help sysadmins automate the menial, repetitive parts of their work, enabling organizations to build adaptive, agile infrastructure so IT teams can deliver business-changing software faster than ever. Luke's motivations for founding Puppet Labs are even more relevant today, with the rising interest in DevOps.

In a blog post celebrating Puppet Labs' 10th birthday, Luke Kanies wrote:

"While it's been a long road, the thing I still love best is when someone comes up to me (usually at one of our events) and says something like, 'Puppet changed my life. I love my job so much more now, and it's all because of Puppet.' Nothing we've done would be worth it if our users didn't feel this way. I'm excited to see what the next 10 years will bring."

Accomplishments from Puppet Labs' fiscal Q1:

• Current bookings run rate of $75 million.
• Driven by major interest in the Puppet Enterprise 3.8 product release, April was Puppet Labs' most successful month ever in terms of bookings, with a 325 percent increase from April 2014.
• Continued acceleration of the Puppet Supported Program, including new integrations with Arista and Cumulus Networks, enabling customers to make software defined networking (SDN) and its benefits a reality.
• Closed its fourth annual DevOps survey, the largest and most comprehensive study of DevOps in the industry, gathering responses from 10,260 respondents. Last year's survey showed that organizations with high IT performance are twice as likely to exceed their profitability, market share and productivity goals. This year's survey results will include findings around the impact of team structure, specific practices and other aspects of DevOps culture on IT performance and profitability.
• Chosen as the Growth Stage Company of the Year by the Technology Association of Oregon.
• More than 1,200 students were trained on Puppet skills in Q1.

In 10 years, Puppet Labs has:

• Grown the IT automation market with Puppet Open Source and Puppet Enterprise. Puppet Labs software is now used by more than 25,000 companies around the world including 62 percent of the Fortune 100.
• Grown from nine employees in 2011 to more than 360 employees around the world today, with offices in Portland, Belfast, London, Pilzen and Sydney.
• Cultivated the Puppet Forge, a repository of modules written by Puppet Labs, its community and extensive partner ecosystem, to more than 3,100 modules.
• Created the Puppet Supported Program, a certification program that enables customers to extend the benefits of automation across their entire data center.
• Grown its annual user conference, PuppetConf, to nearly 7,000 onsite and virtual attendees, making it the largest and most influential IT automation event of the year.
• Helped influence the market's understanding of DevOps and its business benefits through its annual State of DevOps Report.

For a timeline of Puppet Labs' accomplishments, check out the Puppet Labs Turns 10 infographic.

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about Puppet Labs.
• Read the Puppet Labs blog.
• Follow Puppet Labs on Twitter @puppetlabs.
• Try Puppet Enterprise for free.

About Puppet Labs
Puppet Labs, Inc. is the leader in IT automation. Puppet Labs software provides system administrators the operational agility, efficiency and insight they need to proactively manage dynamic infrastructure, scaling from tens of servers to thousands, both on-premise and in the cloud. Thousands of the world's leading organizations use Puppet Labs software to configure and manage their IT infrastructure, including Bank of America, Cisco, NYSE, Salesforce.com and WebEx. Based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet Labs employs more than 360 people. The company is backed by investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, VMware, Cisco, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and Triangle Peak Partners. To learn more, please visit PuppetLabs.com.