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Puppet Labs appoints LSD Information Technology as a strategic reseller in Africa


Johannesburg, 23 Jul 2013

LSD Information Technology, a leader in providing IT consulting and IT infrastructure based on open source software for the southern African market, and Puppet Labs, a global leader in IT automation software for system administrators, have officially announced their partnership agreement. This partnership has matured over the past year, and is gaining popularity on a monthly basis. It enables LSD to provide Puppet Enterprise expertise to the African market.

Puppet Enterprise provides a configuration management solution to manage servers and hypervisors. The solution enables system administrators to define the desired state of their infrastructure, and then automatically enforce that state. Puppet Enterprise offers a powerful and flexible solution for creating IT compliance modules that are tailored to your environment and the specific regulations you must adhere to.

Puppet Enterprise provides IT automation software that helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its life cycle, including discovery, provisioning, operating system and application configuration management, orchestration and reporting. With Puppet Enterprise, you can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change, scaling from tens of servers, to thousands, on premises or in the cloud.

"LSD is excited to add Puppet to our solution offering as the leading open source provider of IT automation software. Coupled with its open source base, enterprise-grade support and subscription, it is the exact fit within LSD's data centre management offering," says Sven Lesicnik, Managing Director, LSD Information Technology.

"LSD has partnered with Puppet Labs to provide its customers with an enterprise solution in addressing complex configuration management within ever-growing IT environments," adds Stefan Lesicnik, Technical Director, LSD Information Technology.

"We're pleased to partner with LSD Information Technology to engage with our customers in South Africa," said Mitch Sonies, Vice-President of Business Development at Puppet Labs. "We're excited that our joint partnership will make Puppet Labs' products and services - including our training courses - officially available to the African market."

The partnership is part of a larger strategy of LSD to offer solutions and market enablement of cloud strategies. LSD also offers Puppet Labs training courses customised and tailored to address the changing requirements of the domestic market.

To learn more about Puppet Enterprise, please register for the Puppet Fundamentals Training in Johannesburg, taking place from 8 to 10 October 2013.

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LSD

"As IT ninjas, we want to impact the world by doing IT differently."

It's for this reason that we go out of our way to open our clients' worlds by offering a wide choice of open source, vendor-neutral solutions that provide a superior and technologically advanced model for collaboration and working.

We pride ourselves on our "funnalism" - our ability to fuse fun and professionalism. In addition, there's no charge for awesomeness, so you can always rest assured of amazing service, followed up by incredible quality and on-time delivery.

In order to be seen as an employer of choice, we put time, effort and energy into our culture, so that we attract the rock stars of the open source world - people who are committed, excited and passionate about open source, and have been for their entire lives.

We are committed to giving back to the communities that have supported us, and work hard to be an active part of building a stable and professional open source community in South Africa. - www.lsd.co.za

Puppet Labs

Puppet Labs 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 - on-premises and in the cloud. Thousands of the world's leading organisations use Puppet Labs' software to configure and manage their IT infrastructure, including Citrix, eBay, NYSE, Match.com, Shopzilla, Bank of America and PayPal. Based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet Labs employs more than 150 people. The company is backed by investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, VMware, Cisco, True Ventures, Radar Partners and Emerson Street Partners. To learn more, please visit www.puppetlabs.com.

Puppet Labs and Puppet are trademarks of Puppet Labs Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Additional resources

* Learn more about LSD Information Technology
* Follow LSD on Twitter @lsdcoza
* Learn more about Puppet Labs
* Follow Puppet Labs on Twitter @puppetlabs

Editorial contacts

Nicole Brits
LSD Information Technology
(010) 500 0573
info@lsd.co.za