OPSCODE NAMES CHRISTOPER BROWN AS CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER Former Microsoft and Amazon.com Engineering Executive To Guide Opscode’s Technology Vision And Strategy During Period of Rapid Growth In Cloud Infrastructure Automation; Company Names Adam Jacob As Chief Product Officer To Lead Customer-Driven Product Development; SEATTLE, Wash – February 8, 2011 – Opscode™, Inc.

Starting with Chef? Curious about how to deploy applications using the cool integration techniques you’ve heard about?

Configuration management, automation and monitoring are a compelling combination. This session will explore the new Zenoss Core cookbook for Chef. The presentation will walk through cookbook and discuss the inner workings, while providing a live demonstration of a Zenoss server being deployed and automatically monitoring Chef-managed nodes.

As part of Data Day Austin Opscode Technical Evangelist Matt Ray will walk attendees through launching a multi-node Hadoop cluster, and then show them the right direction to build their own. Matt will show them how Chef works and why it’s relevant to Big Data.

Opscode Expands Leadership Team to Serve Rapidly Growing Market for Infrastructure Automation SEATTLE, Jan. 26, 2011 Opscode, Inc., the leader in infrastructure automation, today announced that Todd Feinroth has joined Opscode as Chief Revenue Officer.

OPSCODE WINS ‘PRODUCT OF THE YEAR’ FROM SEARCHDATACENTER.COM Leader In Infrastructure Automation Recognized With Gold Award In The Category of Systems Management SEATTLE, Wash – January 24, 2011 –Opscode, Inc., the leader in infrastructure automation, today announced that its flagship product, Chef, was awarded ‘SeachDataCenter.

Right before FOSDEM 2011 in Brussels, and right after Chef Fundamentals in London, Patrick Debois is hosting a Chef Advanced Training (2 day) in Gent, Belgium. Joshua Timberman will be teaching the class. When: February 3-4, 2011. Location: IBBT in Gent, Belgium.

Prior to FOSDEM 2011, Stephen Nelson-Smith of Atalanta Systems is hosting a Chef Fundamentals Training (3 day) class in London. Opscode Technical Evangelist Joshua Timberman will be teaching the class. When: January 31, February 1-2, 2011. Location: Radisson Edwardian Hampshire Hotel in Leicester Square, right in the heart of London’s theatre land.

Following on the success of the recent Atlanta, San Francisco and Chicago Hack Days, Saturday January 29th will be the first New York-area Chef Hack Day. Opscode will be in full attendance, multiple members from our evangelism team along with members from our core development team will be in town for the event.