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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

‘SaltStack will help us to complete our automation story, enabling us to extend our automation capabilities beyond infrastructure to the entire application stack,’ says VMware’s cloud leader, Ajay ...

VMware Inc. is acquiring SaltStack Inc., the company behind a widely used infrastructure automation tool, to enhance its vRealize cloud management software suite. The deal was announced against the ...

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, ...