CFEngine Automates Wall Street

With five of the ten largest banks on the Wall Street and more than a hundred financial institutions already registered as users of their free open source solution, CFEngine is an automation favorite in the financial industry. CFEngine is the leading vendor of open source configuration management solutions, used by all major industries world wide to keep datacenters running. The company was founded by CTO and Professor Mark Burgess, who came up with a completely new way to manage servers.

"This is clearly a commercial break-through for the company and a huge endorsement by the financial sector", said Thomas Ryd, CEO of CFEngine. "The open source community and early adopters have deployed CFEngine on millions of servers world wide. Large financial institutions are 100% dependent on their IT operations, and we feel that these CFEngine Nova licensing agreements validate the technology we have developed."

Professor Mark Burgess said "CFEngine represents a disruptive way to manage servers. Instead of having a central point of managing servers, we are building intelligence into each server by making them autonomous and able to heal themselves. It may sound like science fiction, but it has now become a widely accepted way to manage IT infrastructure."