Opscode in the News

InfoQ “IBM and Microsoft push Opscode Chef.”
Matthias Marschall
eWeek “Opscode ChefConf 2013 Brings Chef Open-Source Automation to Light.” Darryl Taft
SearchCloudComputing.com “Opscode Chef configuration automation tool aids cloud management.”
Beth Pariseau
SearchDataCenter “Q&A: How Facebook uses Chef configuration management tools.”
Beth Pariseau
Datacenter Dynamics “Opscode teams with IBM and Microsoft.”
Yevgeniy Sverdlik
The Register “Opscode cooks up deals to serve Chef automation from IBM, Joyent clouds.”
Timothy Prickett Morgan
GigaOM “Opscode gains momentum with IBM, Microsoft deals.”
Barb Darrow
Data Center Knowledge “DevOps Meets the Enterprise: Chef Now Supported by IBM, Microsoft.”
Rich Miller
eWeek “Opscode, IBM Team to Bring Open-Source Automation to SmartCloud.”
Darryl Taft
TechNewsWorld “Open Source’s Deep Dive into the Enterprise.”
Jay Lyman
eWeek “IBM Cooks Up OpenStack Cloud Platform with Chef”
Darryl Taft
InfoWorld “AWS launches Chef-based management platform.”
Mikael Ricknäs
Wired Enterprise “Facebook hires Chef to juggle 150,000 machines”
Cade Metz
CIO.com “Opscode Chef gets a hand from Facebook”
Joab Jackson
TechCrunch “Opscode is Facebook’s answer for scaling its ‘Carl Sagan’ size deployments”
Alex Williams
ZDNet “Facebook taps Opscode for cloud automation”
Andrew Nusca
The Register “Opscode guts Chef control freak to scale it to 10,000 servers”
Timothy Prickett Morgan
GigaOM “Opscode touts Facebook’s help in scaling up Chef configuration automation tool.”
Barb Darrow
SearchDataCenter “Opscode files down steep learning curve with Chef 11″
Beth Pariseau
Cloud Pro UK “Opscode Chef cooks up Facebook automation”
Jane McCallion
GeekWire “Facebook taps Seattle cloud startup Opscode to help automate core infrastructure”
John Cook
All Facebook “Facebook taps Opscode Private Chef for configuration, management of servers”
David Cohen
Data Center Knowledge “Facebook Scales Servers with Retooled Chef”
Rich Miller
Data Centre Solutions (UK) “Cooking up a storm?”
Phil Aslop
Datacenter Dynamics “Opscode brings recipe for automation to EMEA markets.”
Penny Jones
GeekWire “Cloud infrastructure startup Opscode nearly doubles staff, expands in Europe and Asia”
John Cook
Xconomy “Opscode expands overseas as enterprise cloud software biz grows.”
Curt Woodward
TechFlash “Opscode goes global.”
Emily Parkhurst
V3 “Opscode brings IT automation platform to Europe.”
Daniel Robinson
The Register “Opscode is getting into the services racket… to help get customers up to speed on using Chef quickly.”
Timothy Prickett Morgan
GigaOM “Opscode is going beyond devops templates popular among DIY programmers to add enterprise services as well as configuration management and other solutions to its product roster.”
Barb Darrow
SiliconAngle “Opscode introduces Chef professional services for cloud infrastructure automation.”
Matt Winberger
Linux.com “Chef goes beyond simply managing machines and aims to create a new development model that’s fluid, a concept known as ‘infrastructure as code.’”
Libby Clark
SearchCloudComputing.com “Besides providing other cloud automation features… Opscode Chef can help simplify customers recovery from outages.”
Stuart Johnston
Business Software “Automate infrastructure and rule the cloud with Opscode.”
Darlene Lin
Computer Technology Review “Opscode debuts Chef for OpenStack to improve cloud infrastructure.”
Data Center Knowledge “Opscode has published ‘Chef for OpenStack,’ a reference deployment for building and managing OpenStack clouds.”
Colleen Miller
SearchCloudComputing.com “Data center pros push systems automation limits with Chef.”
Beth Pariseau
SiliconAngle “The tweaked-up Chef features quite a few added capabilities that justify a trial.”
Maria Deutscher
SiliconAngle “Over the last four years and 54 stable releases, more than 715 contributors have added their code to the pot.”
Matt Winberger
451 Research “Opscode adds enterprise features, command-line integration with more clouds.”
Rachel Chalmers
Data Center Knowledge “Chef Hits 1 Million Downloads, Adds New Features.”
Rich Miller
GigaOM “Opscode just boosted the scalability of Private Chef so that a sysadmin can manage three times as many workloads without adding hardware.”
Barb Darrow
O'Reilly Radar “Jesse Robbins talks shifts for sysadmins and a surprising use for Chef.”
Timothy M. O’brien
Business Insider “As cloud computing grows, IT people need to automate as many functions as possible. Everyone loves this software. Its management includes some of the people that originally built Amazon’s Web Services cloud, too.”
Julie Bort
FINS “Seattle’s Opscode Inc. plans to hire 30 new employees this year. The majority of the Opscode’s new hires will be in engineering.”
Joseph Walker
TechCrunch “The company’s offering allows developers and engineers to define what infrastructure they want to build and then manage these complex systems in a number of environments.”
Leena Rao
Wall Street Journal “Opscode has raised $19.5 million in Series C funding to help push its cloud server configuration management technology into the traditional enterprise market.”
Scott Denne
Seattle Times “Opscode draws on an open-source community to produce software to manage and automate deployment of infrastructure and applications.”
Brier Dudley
GigaOM “Configuration management specialist Opscode plans to use $19.5 million in new funding to build up its engineering staff and fuel its push into the enterprise.”
Barb Darrow
Xconomy “One of the key selling points of Opscode’s Chef software is that it’s open-source, so there’s a community of IT experts developing new ways to use the tools.”
Curt Woodward
Data Center Knowledge “Chef has quickly become one of the key tools for configuration management for fast-growing infrastructures.”
Rich Miller
The Register “Opscode has lured more big backers as momentum builds for that tool’s open source, hosted, and licensed versions.”
Timothy Prickett Morgan
GeekWire “The company has been on a significant growth curve in recent months… The new money will help propel the company forward even further.”
John Cook
Seattle Business Magazine “Service Provider of the Year.”
Gianni Truzzi
The 451 Group “We expect that more mainstream enterprises and those using Windows will be adopting Chef and similar tools as they increasingly embrace ‘devops’ – the fusion of application development and deployment.”
Jay Lyman
Wired Enterprise “Before this, there were ways of configuring servers and managing them, but DevOps has gotten it right.”
Cade Metz
The Register “Server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which lives and dies on Windows in the data center, helped to put together and test [Chef on Windows].”
Timothy Prickett Morgan
GigaOM “Chef has already proven remarkably popular both among users needing to simplify deployment of their web infrastructures, as well as among software providers.”
Derrick Harris
TechFlash “Opscode Taking BookRenter Back to School in the Cloud.”
Greg Lamm
BusinessWeek “The software has helped companies tap vast stores of computing power in new ways, accelerating research in fields such as financial modeling and genetics.”
Olga Kharif and Ashlee Vance
Data Center Knowledge “Cloud automation specialist Opscode, Inc. has named Mitch Hill as Chief Executive Officer…”
Rich Miller
Xconomy “Opscode, a young Seattle company that sells cloud-computing management services, has added some executive firepower to help manage its growth.”
Curt Woodward
GeekWire “Ex-Avanade boss Mitch Hill jumps back into the startup world, joins Opscode as CEO.”
John Cook
SearchCloudComputing.com “Opscode announced private Chef…Users are asking for the next level of utility computing; actual usefulness, inside their own data centers.”
Carl Brooks
GigaOM “Opscode, the configuration management company that has rethought the way to deploy and monitor hardware and software for cloud environments…”
Stacey Higginbotham
Data Center Knowledge “Effective automation is a critical step in making cloud computing work. One of the leading players in the cloud automation sector is Opscode.”
Rich Miller
NetworkWorld “…New Chef-driven tool is recipe for success”
Maxwell Cooter
SearchCloudComputing “Clearly, if you want to run a cloud, Chef is a good place to start.”
Carl Brooks
RedMonk “Podcast: Velocity and Opscode”
Michael Coté
NetworkWorld “Venture Capital Continues To Pour Dollars In To Commercial Open Source”
Alan Shimel
Enterprise Irregulars “…Opscode’s service offering is the net-new interesting thing.”
Michael Coté
The Channel Register “Ex-Amazon ‘Master of Disaster’ animates server Chef”
Cade Metz
The Virtualization Practice “…DevOps is…a concept that has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the management software business.”
Bernd Herzog
TechFlash “Opscode scores $11 million”
John Cook
Socialized Software “Opscode: Turning Sysadmins into Superheroes”
Mark Hinkle
Data Center Knowledge “A Utility for Internet Scale”
Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge
GigaOM “…Chef represents a generational shift in information technology.”
Stacey Higginbotham
VentureBeat “…The 451 Group said this launch has ‘the promise to be one of the watershed moments in web infrastructure.’”
Anthony Ha