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DevOps
“We have Unix engineers now happily automating Windows” – Chef + Cultural Change @Nordstrom
By Lucas Welch
Today we launched a new series of Chef testimonial videos offering varied and unique perspectives on the journey to becoming a coded business. The first of these #ChefTalks videos features Rob Cummings, infrastructure engineer at Nordstrom, discussing how to level-up change in your organization.
Read moreIn the News – Red Hat Roadmap, E-Commerce Booming
By Lucas Welch
Need some weekend reading? We recommend checking out SearchDataCenter‘s interview with Red Hat’s director of software engineering Denise Dumas, detailing roadmap plans for RHEL. Meanwhile InfoWorld looks at Red Hat’s new Software Collections 1.0, featuring new versions of Ruby and Python for RHEL.
Read moreOpscode @IBM Innovate
By Lucas Welch
Are you headed to Orlando for IBM Innovate next week? If so, be sure to check out Opscode’s VP of Solutions, George Moberly, at the event spreading the good word on Chef.
Read moreIn the News – Cloud Mgmt & More
By Lucas Welch
In hopes of helping all of you in the Community stay up-to-date on what tech press are providing in terms of news, opinions, and best practices from end-users, this post marks the first in an ongoing series of ‘news round-ups’ we’ll be posting every couple weeks here at Opscode’s blog.
Read moreIndiegogo crowd-funds projects around the world w/Chef
By Lucas Welch
From raising money for those impacted by the tornado in Oklahoma, to helping people fight cancer, Indiegogo crowd-funds important, even life-changing projects the world over. To do so, the company uses Rackspace to power a flexible, scalable cloud infrastructure behind all the awesome projects and site traffic.
Read moreCheezburger Builds Massive Social Humor Website Network w/Hosted Chef
By Lucas Welch
Coming out of a seriously rockin’ #ChefConf a week ago, it’s time to profile more customer awesomeness in the Chef Community. This go round it’s a neighbor of ours here in Seattle – Cheezburger, one of the largest social humor sites in the world.
Read moreOpscode Momentum Surges As Chef Community Unites at #ChefConf 2013
By Lucas Welch
Today from #ChefConf 2013, we made a series of exciting announcements, including collaborations with IBM (see separate blog for more info) and Microsoft, to some serious business and community growth metrics.
Read moreOpscode and IBM Join Forces to Bring Open Source Cloud Automation to the Enterprise
By Lucas Welch
This morning, we announced an exciting collaboration with our friends at IBM to bring the full power of Opscode Chef to IBM’s enterprise customers. From Opscode Chef integration with IBM SmartCloud, to new cookbooks, content and more, we’re working closely with IBM to deliver on the promise of DevOps in accelerating the speed of business.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – Sonian Takes Archive & Search to the Cloud w/Opscode
By Lucas Welch
Good news this morning, as we announced that Sonian, the pioneer in cloud-powered email archiving and search, has deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™. Sonian is using Hosted Chef to automate configuration, environment and application management across the multiple cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers powering the company’s innovative archive and search service.
Read moreOn the Road to #ChefConf – Incident Command System Workshop
There are many truisms in complex systems. One such truism: incidents happen. We all strive to decrease the mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recovery (MTTR). For more than 40 years a system has been used across many industries to organize, manage, and lead people trying to solve problems.
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