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Opscode @ VMworld – We Need Your Votes!
By Lucas Welch
Virtualization makes it easier and more cost-effective to scale physical environments. But it doesn’t do much for management. That’s where Chef comes in. Chef provides the same great benefits for automating virtualized servers that if offers for cloud-based or physical resources.
Read moreSubmit your talks for Ignite #ChefConf!
Ignite #ChefConf is Wednesday, May 16th and YOU can speak! Ignite is a geek event in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. It is super fun! Ready to submit your talk?
Read moreOpscode at the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference
By Matt Ray
Opscode is excited to announce that we’ll be attending and sponsoring the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference this week in San Francisco, CA. OpenStack developers, operators and users will gather to discuss the future of this open source cloud platform.
Read more#ChefConf early bird pricing extended to Wednesday April 4th
Several of you asked if we would could extend #ChefConf early bird pricing by a few days… so we did. ;-) You now have until Wednesday April 4th at 11:59 PM Pacific to get your tickets at the lower price.
Read moreOpscode on the Road
If you know about Opscode, you know Community really means something to us, and there’s no better way to keep our Community growing strong than by getting out there and meeting with folks face to face.
Read moreOpscode Announces $19.5m Funding, Hiring, Community Growth, and #ChefConf
We’ve made several big announcements this morning… slightly ahead of schedule. You can read details on TechCrunch, GeekWire, DataCenterKnowledge, GigaOM, and more on Techmeme. We just raised $19,500,000! We’ve just closed $19.5M in Series C Funding, led by John Connors at Ignition Partners, along with Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Read moreAlwaysOn, CRN Send Some Love Opscode’s Way
By Lucas Welch
Most everybody likes to win and, here at Opscode, we’re no different. That’s why we’re excited about some recent accolades we received – so much so we wanted to share the good news. First, the AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 recognized Opscode as a private company changing the game in IT.
Read moreCookbooks Migrated to New GitHub Organization
Opscode’s cookbooks are no longer maintained in the monolithic “opscode/cookbooks” repository on GitHub, and are now split up into a new organization on GitHub, “opscode-cookbooks”. Why the Change?
Read moreOpen Source Training Materials
In July, 2010, we announced Opscode Open Training, providing free availability to open source Chef training materials under a Creative Commons Share-alike license. To date, more than a thousand people have signed up for the materials. We have conducted several classes, both public and private.
Read moreChef Support for Citrix CloudStack 3
Our friends at Citrix & the CloudStack.org open source community have just released CloudStack 3. This a significant update to the CloudStack platform, which adds support for NetScaler loadbalancers & integration with the OpenStack Swift storage system.
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