At organizations from Fortune 100 enterprises to Web 2.0 startups, IT is transitioning from a back office support function to a front office imperative as the primary delivery platform for goods, services, and customer engagement.

It’s been an interesting news cycle so far this week. Besides our friends at Cumulus Networks coming out of stealth with the first-ever Linux OS for networking and Velocity 2013 kicking off with some excitement, there have been a number of other notable happenings to keep up with, as well.

A cool new approach to networking has emerged today as our friends at Cumulus Networks emerged from stealth-mode to unveil the first Linux OS for datacenter networking. GigaOM had this to say: “Super-stealthy startup Cumulus Networks has launched with what could be a hot property in the burgeoning world of open networking gear.

As many of you know, Opscode has a solid presence down at Velocity 2013, and thanks to the good folks at Data Center Knowledge, we have a live report of what our first of three speakers, the awesome Mandi Walls, had to say this morning: “All three of the morning sessions were jam-packed, with literally […]

Continuing our series of #ChefTalks customer videos about the journey to becoming a coded business, this morning we published two more videos to Opscode’s YouTube Channel.

If you read this blog, you’ve no doubt seen us profile what our customers are achieving with Opscode Chef. However, past posts have at times glossed over some of the coolest parts of our customers’ stories.

Headed to Velocity 2013 next week? Then join Opscode and thousands of peers, friends new and old, and really smart people in learning, socializing, and sharing best practices for moving business faster in a web-driven world.

Some more interesting ‘news’ tidbits today, including: – Cool interview w/Kevin Behr, co-author of The Phoenix Project, over at Wired.com – First in a series of blogs on the current (and exciting) state of app dev from Sonatype CTO Jason van Zyl at Computerworld. Happy reading.

For the third installment of our new #ChefTalks customer video series, we interviewed Jamie Winsor, a newly minted Awesome Chef, the author of Berkshelf, and Software Engineer at Riot Games.