Event-driven automation software firm StackStorm, Inc. today rolled out the enterprise edition of its platform during a keynote at Cassandra Summit yesterday, revealing that Netflix Inc. is already using it to perform auto-remediation tasks.

Netflix, which is known to be one of the largest and most prominent Cassandra database users, said it chose to use StackStorm after trying out a range of other open-source platforms and in-house projects. The TV streaming service said it chose StackStorm as its solution to automate remediation, eliminate the risk of omission and boost productivity in order to augment its DevOps teams, explained Evan Powell, CEO and co-founder of StackStorm, in an interview with Enterprise Tech.

If you’ve never heard of StackStorm, Powell himself appeared on theCUBE at last year’s OpenStack Summit shortly after the company emerged from stealth, where he told hosts John Furrier and Stu Miniman what the startup is all about.

“We are automating the automators,” Powell explained. “Our product is the definition on top of the Software Defined Storage.” What StackStorm intends to do is deliver increased productivity by orders of magnitude over what is currently achievable today. According the company’s website, they ‘want operations automations to be more powerful, easier to author, fully transparent, and self-learning.’

***Check out Powell’s interview on theCUBE for more about StackStorm***

StackStorm’s event-driven automation platform is certainly an ideal solution for the auto-remediation tasks Netflix has in mind, because it’s able to listen out for events and interpret them before implementing powerful workflow-based fixes. The platform is also capable of automating troubleshooting processes and complex deployments. Companies can save time and money with these kinds of automation, but the bigger advantage comes from being able to boost operational agility, Powell told Enterprise Tech.

“Netflix is pretty highly automated on things like deployment or basic configuration management and so forth,” Powell explained. “In their case, what they’re looking at is Day Two auto remediation. There is a provisioning aspect to what we do. They had started down the path of writing open remediation for Cassandra, but more generally. That’s a pattern we have seen, this kind of remediation or automation being run as a service.”

The enterprise edition of StackStorm is also the first to integrate Flow, a utility that lets users visually design and control their automation. Infrastructure is treated like code, which means DevOps can make real-time changes to automation by dragging and dropping objects.

Other notable features include Role-based access controls that allow users to designate fine-grained permissions; LDAP support for user authentication; and enterprise support via built in telemetry and private Slack channels. StackStorm also offers Quick Start and various training services, the company said.

Pricing for StackStorm Enterprise Edition starts at $500 a month, with the option of a free 30-day trial of Enterprise Edition (beta) available to download at StackStorm’s website.

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