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Cycle Computing Puts Chef 11 Through its Paces w/10K+ AWS Servers

We’ve been posting a lot of cool news today and now it’s time for a bit more… Our friends at Cycle Computing helped test the scale of the new Chef 11 last week, creating a 10K+ server instance (10,598 servers, to be exact) in AWS using only a single Chef 11 server. The results? Dynamite.

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#ChefConf 2013: Set Your Sights on Automation w/Facebook, Nordstrom and More

Early Bird pricing for #ChefConf 2013 has started. Get your ticket today! #ChefConf will be held April 24-26 in San Francisco. Join hundreds of system administrators, application developers, and other IT professionals to collaborate on creating the future of infrastructure automation.

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Facebook Likes Opscode and Private Chef

Yes, that’s right, folks, Facebook, one of the largest infrastructures on the planet, has deployed Opscode Private Chef™ to automate configuration and management within its web-tier infrastructure. Why did Facebook need Chef? Because Facebook’s infrastructure team has to manage thousands of servers, configurations, and administrative access policies across a very dynamic compute environment.

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Unleashing the New Generation of Chef

It’s a really big day here at Opscode, and when I say big, I mean “10K nodes from one Chef server” big… “automating tens of thousands of servers” big… or, as our CTO Christopher Brown says, “Carl Sagan big.” Let me explain why: 1)     Chef 11 is now available for free download!

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Upcoming Webinar with Edmunds.com: Managing a Hadoop Cluster with Opscode Chef

Interested in learning about how you can use Chef to stand up a Hadoop cluster and manage big data within your organization?  We have teamed up with the folks at Edmunds.com who are using Chef to fully automate and manage their Hadoop infrastructure.

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Prezi Makes Your Ideas Matter w/Hosted Chef

Following on the heels of our last blog on customer goodness, this time we’re profiling a company who many of you may already be familiar with – Prezi. Prezi provides an ‘open canvas’ that helps more than 17 million users better communicate their ideas.

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Automation Rules @ University of Pennsylvania

We’re getting 2013 started right with yet another story of Opscode Chef customer awesomeness. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. They’re also using Hosted Chef to do some pretty rockin’ things with their infrastructure.

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Message Bus Takes Email to the Cloud with Opscode

More customer goodness today: Our friends at Message Bus, pioneers in cloud-based infrastructure for email, mobile and social messaging, are using Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration, environment and application management across the multiple cloud IaaS providers powering the company’s innovative service. What is Message Bus’s service exactly?

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Splunk revs up new SaaS platform w/Hosted Chef

Many of you in our community likely know Splunk, the innovative big data company that enables enterprise companies to collect, analyze and harness the power of their machine data. What you may not know is Splunk now offers a SaaS product designed specifically for the cloud.

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Upcoming Webinar: Automating OpenStack and Ceph at DreamHost with Private Chef

As you may know, we officially announced our new Chef for OpenStack solution last week.  On the heels of that exciting news, we are pleased to be hosting an OpenStack-focused webinar with Opscode Private Chef™ customer DreamHost early next month. DreamHost is a global Web and cloud hosting provider with over 330,000 customers and 1.

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