This article originally appeared on PEVC Dow Jones VentureWire, May 6, 2014.
Operations automation startup StackStorm emerged from stealth mode with funding from xSeed Capital to introduce a private beta program for the company’s first product.
The company is focused on developing self-driving data centers that learn how to operate more efficiently. It is currently focused on enterprises deploying OpenStack.
StackStorm software leverages existing configuration management and monitoring to deliver operations automation that ties together loosely coupled, heterogeneous cloud infrastructures with simple to use and powerful logic, it said in a news release. These capabilities provide the ability for users to tie together multiple automations or actions, it said.
StackStorm was co-founded by Evan Powell and Dmitri Zimine. Mr. Powell was most recently founding chief executive of Nexenta Systems, and Mr. Zimine was director of R&D, cloud infrastructure at VMware.
StackStorm’s advisory board includes the vice president of cloud infrastructure at eBay / PayPal , Ryan Granard; technical operation engineer at GitHub, James Fryman; and the director of platform, Workday, Carmine Rimi.
The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.