In what has become a VMworld tradition, VMware kicked off the annual event this morning by announcing an acquisition: SaltStack, an open-source based automation software provider. The companies didn’t ...

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VMware said Tuesday that it plans to acquire SaltStack, makers of event-driven automation software, to bolster its cloud portfolio. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. VMware ...

SaltStack, a VMware-owned company, has revealed critical vulnerabilities impacting Salt versions 3002 and prior, with patches available as of today. Salt is an open-source IT infrastructure management ...

Thomas S. Hatch released Salt, aka the SaltStack Platform, in 2011 after becoming frustrated with the (slow) speed of the Ruby-based open source configuration management systems available at the time, ...

VMware has announced its intent to buy Utah-based automation firm SaltStack in a move the virtualisation giant claims "completes our automation story". Saltstack's configuration management and ...

SaltStack Enterprise 5.0 draws on high-speed messaging for superior scalability and control, but the web UI is still catching up The only sane and efficient way to manage a large numbers of servers—or ...

A series of critical vulnerabilities in SaltStack’s open source Salt remote task and configuration framework will let hackers breeze past authentication and authorisation safeguards to take over ...

The Salt Project has issued a secondary fix for a command injection vulnerability after the first attempt to patch the issue partially failed. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-28243, impacts ...

LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SaltStack, the creators of intelligent automation for IT operations and security teams, announced the general availability of SaltStack® Enterprise 6.0 and the new ...

Search doesn't turn up much. We have adopted SaltStack as our configuration management tool of choice- apparently because it does EVERYTHING and apparently because it has good Windows support. I don't ...