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Opscode Chef™ Delivers Robust Open Source Automation Platform for Windows Environments
By Lucas Welch
Opscode Announces New Collaboration with Microsoft to Enable Opscode Chef Cookbooks to Take Advantage of Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Capabilities New Version of Opscode Chef Adds to Native Open Source Functionality for Automating Wide Range of Windows Infrastructure Operations SEATTLE – August 19, 2013 – Opscode®, the foundation of the coded business, today announced […]
Read moreAwesome Chefs: Schuberg Philis Delivers Mission-Critical IT Services with Opscode
By Lucas Welch
Dutch IT Outsourcing Leader Deploys Opscode Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Configuration of Entire Hybrid Cloud Application Stack, from Compute, Network and Storage Infrastructure to Application Delivery Combination of CloudStack Compute Servers, NexentaStor ZFS-based Storage, and Enterprise Chef Enables Schuberg Philis to Guarantee Its Customers 100 Percent Functional Uptime on Mission-Critical Application Infrastructures SEATTLE – August […]
Read moreAwesome Community Chef: Mike Fiedler – “Roller Derbies & Cookbook Versions”
By Lucas Welch
If you’ve ever seen a Roller Derby bout, you know they’re serious business. Rough, tumble, rock, and roll. If you haven’t, stop reading now and check this video out, then come on back. With all the jostling, racing, skating, and contact, refereeing Roller Derby is no easy task.
Read moreOpscode Community Summit
The Opscode Community Summit is a unique opportunity for open-source contributors, Opscode engineers, and Chef users of all experience levels to come together and share their passion and excitement for Chef. The third annual Opscode Community Summit will be held November 12 and 13 at the Hyatt Olive 8 in downtown Seattle, Washington.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – BlueKai’s development and operations teams learn to work faster, smarter, and more collaboratively
By Lucas Welch
You may have heard of BlueKai. They’re a mover-and-shaker in “big data”, giving marketers, agencies, and organizations of all types a SaaS platform for ‘activating data’.
Read moreCheck us out @AGILE Talking DevOps, Chef, and More
By Lucas Welch
The AGILE 2013 conference descends on grand ol’ Nashville next week and of course your friends from Opscode will be there in force, from an exhibition booth to our awesome consultant and “lnxchk” Mandi Walls speaking on (what else?
Read moreSeattle, Start-ups, and the ‘Goldilocks Theory’
By Lucas Welch
Given we were founded and are headquartered in Seattle, it was exciting to see the Atlantic ranked Seattle as our nation’s leading high-tech mecca (last year).
Read moreAwesome DevOps Panel: IBM, Netflix, Warner Music, Opscode, Jenkins, & Puppet
By Lucas Welch
This is not only a cool panel topic, but also a rad group of people to have all discussing DevOps and Continuous Delivery (in the cloud) at one time. Last week, Redmonk analyst James Governor hosted the latest addition to the IBM PureSystems video chat series on opinionated infrastructure.
Read moreIn the News: Cloud Market Analysis; DevOps in Govt.; Reinventing Your Identity
By Lucas Welch
Thus far this week has seen a few interesting pieces across the IT and business media landscape. First up, Charles Babcock at InformationWeek argues that theorizing the big vendors will eventually own the cloud is premature. He provides some interesting point-counterpoint from himself and other media colleagues here.
Read moreIn the News: MSFT Reorg, DevOps in the Enterprise, and Amazon Price Cuts
By Lucas Welch
Coming off Independence Day, this week has seen an active news cycle in tech, led by Microsoft announcing a significant reorganization of the software giant around “One Microsoft”. All Things D takes a look at what it all means here, while InformationWeek takes a bigger picture look here.
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