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The Python community’s annual convention, PyCon, is this weekend and Opscode is excited to be participating in a number of events. Friday evening Opscode is sponsoring the Chef BoF (Birds of a Feather). This is a gathering of Pythonistas that are interested in, or currently using Chef to manage their infrastructures.

Seth Chisamore
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Rhapsody, IGN Entertainment and ETSY Among Customers Using Opscode’s Cloud Infrastructure Automation Service SEATTLE, Wash – March 8, 2011 – Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that more than 3,000 organizations have signed up to use the Opscode Platform since its commercial introduction in June, 2010.

Jay Wampold
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Leading Provider of Online Subscription Music Uses Opscode Platform To Automate Infrastructure Delivering More Than 11 Million Songs To Consumers World-Wide SEATTLE, Wash – March 8, 2011 – Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Rhapsody, Inc., is using the Opscode Platform to automate its data center infrastructure.

Jay Wampold
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Leading Cloud Infrastructure Vendors Demonstrate OpenStack Capabilities at Cloud Connect Conference Santa Clara, California – March 8, 2011 – Today, at the Cloud Connect conference, Dell, Opscode and Rackspace® are providing a demonstration of the first fully automated provisioning of a multi-node OpenStack™ cloud during an OpenStack meet up at the Cloud Connect conference.

Jay Wampold
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Rackspace and its Partners are the OpenStack Experts Helping Enterprises and Service Providers Deploy and Support OpenStack Clouds March 8, 2011 – Organizations deploying OpenStack™, the open source cloud operating system, can now receive formal service and support offerings from Rackspace® Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing.

Jay Wampold
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We’re excited to release Chef 0.9.14, with over 65 resolved bugs and improvements. With 0.10.0 right around the corner, we have been spending some extra time triaging tickets lately. Functionality changes and major new features are heading into 0.10 while 0.9 will continue forward as our stable branch for three months after 0.10.0 is released.

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The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is this weekend and Opscode is excited to be there at a number of events associated with it. Friday is the DevOps Day Los Angeles and our very own John Willis and Adam Jacob will be there.

Matt Ray
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This weekend in Austin TX, Opscode Technical Evangelist Matt Ray will be participating in the GeekAustin DevOps Series #1. The GeekAustin DevOps day is a free event that will feature open source configuration management tools, including Chef.

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At the recent Data Day Austin, Opscode Technical Evangelist Matt Ray gave a talk with Infochimps‘ CTO Flip Kromer on using Chef to deploy Hadoop clusters. The talk discusses DevOps and provides a quick overview of Chef, how it works and why it is important for Big Data users.

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