"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, Business Insider

"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, FINS

"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, TechCrunch

"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, Dow Jones Venture Wire

"Opscode draws on an open-source community to produce software to manage and automate deployment of infrastructure and applications."

Brier Dudley, Seattle Times

"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, GigaOm

"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, Xconomy

"Chef has quickly become one of the key tools for configuration management for fast-growing infrastructures."

Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge

"Opscode has lured more big backers as momentum builds for that tool's open source, hosted, and licensed versions."

Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Register

"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, GeekWire

"Service Provider of the Year."

Gianni Truzzi, Seattle Business Magazine

"Before this, there were ways of configuring servers and managing them, but DevOps has gotten it right."

Cade Metz, Wired Enterprise

"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, The 451 Group

"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, The Register

"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, GigaOM

"Opscode Taking BookRenter Back to School in the Cloud."

Greg Lamm, TechFlash

"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, BusinessWeek

"Cloud automation specialist Opscode, Inc. has named Mitch Hill as Chief Executive Officer..."

Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge

"Opscode, a young Seattle company that sells cloud-computing management services, has added some executive firepower to help manage its growth."

Curt Woodward, Xconomy

"Ex-Avanade boss Mitch Hill jumps back into the startup world, joins Opscode as CEO."

John Cook, GeekWire

"Opscode announced private Chef...Users are asking for the next level of utility computing; actual usefulness, inside their own data centers."

Carl Brooks, SearchCloudComputing.com

"Opscode, the configuration management company that has rethought the way to deploy and monitor hardware and software for cloud environments..."

Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm

"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, Data Center Knowledge

"...Cloud infrastructure automation is a particularly high-impact segment...A key player in that trend is Opscode."

Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge

"...New Chef-driven tool is recipe for success"

Maxwell Cooter, TechWorld

"Clearly, if you want to run a cloud, Chef is a good place to start."

Carl Brooks, SearchCloudComputing

"Podcast: Velocity and Opscode"

Michael Coté, People Over Process

"Venture Capital Continues To Pour Dollars In To Commercial Open Source"

Alan Shimel, NetworkWorld

"...Opscode's service offering is the net-new interesting thing."

Michael Coté, Enterprise Irregulars

"Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' animates server Chef"

Cade Metz, The Channel Register

"...DevOps is...a concept that has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the management software business."

Bernd Herzog, The Virtualization Practice

"Opscode: Turning Sysadmins into Superheroes"

Mark Hinkle, Socialized Software

"A Utility for Internet Scale"

Rich Miller, Data Center Knowledge

"Opscode scores $11 million"

John Cook, TechFlash

"...The 451 Group said this launch has 'the promise to be one of the watershed moments in web infrastructure.'"

Anthony Ha, VentureBeat

"...Chef represents a generational shift in information technology."

Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM