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Big Day for Chef

This morning we made several exciting announcements. First, we changed our company name to Chef. While the Opscode name served us well, it is time to leave it behind. I like both the simplicity of Chef, as well as the clarity.

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Chef Closes $32 Million In Series D Funding

Scale Venture Partners Leads Over-Subscribed Round Including Citi Ventures and Follow-On Investments From Battery Ventures, DFJ, and Ignition Partners Company’s Third Quarter Sales Grow 250 Percent Year-Over-Year as Enterprises Adopt Chef to Move at the Speed of Customer Demand SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today […]

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Chef Bolsters Executive Team To Position Company For Long-Term Growth

Curt Anderson Joins Chef as CFO, Tucker Callaway Joins Chef as VP of Enterprise Sales, and Tom Murphy Joins Chef as VP of Services SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced three new executive appointments during a period of accelerating company growth.

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New Chef Commissioned Study States That Enterprise IT Is Too Slow For Business Today

Commissioned Study Conducted by Independent Consulting Firm, and Based on a Survey of Fortune 1000 IT Professionals, Reveals an Industry Crisis Plus Signs of Hope, Thanks to Automation and DevOps SEATTLE – December 9, 2013 – Chef™ (formerly Opscode), IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced the publication of an October 2013 commissioned study […]

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Awesome Chefs – Infochimps Iron(fan)s Enterprise Big Data Stacks w/Chef

Infochimps helps some of the world’s biggest companies make sense of and then act on their troves of data. The Infochimps Cloud delivers Big Data systems with unprecedented speed, simplicity, scale, and flexibility to enterprise companies. What’s that mean for their customers?

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Chef Adoption Soars in Europe

Opscode European Revenue Grows 400 Percent in Past 12 Months with Klarna, PaddyPower, and Schuberg Philis Among Customers Using Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Business to Hyper-Speed; Leading UK-Based IT Recruitment Firm Reports Opscode Chef in Top Ten IT Contract ‘Skills on the Rise’ in Q3 2013 LONDON – November 13, 2013 – From Velocity Europe, […]

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Enterprise Chef Helps Klarna Make Online Payments Safer and Simpler

Deploys Opscode Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Large-Scale Virtualized Infrastructure, Empowering Engineering with Service-Oriented Architecture to Turbo-Charge Application Development LONDON – November 13, 2013 – From Velocity Europe, Opscode®, the leader in New IT automation, today announced Klarna, one of Europe’s fastest growing companies and a leader in online payments, has deployed Opscode Enterprise Chef™ to […]

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Announcing #ChefConf 2014

Make your plans now to cook up awesome with us at #ChefConf 2014! This will be the largest and best #ChefConf yet and we’ve got some really amazing things planned for this year. A great set of workshops, amazing keynotes, and session tracks featuring awesome members of the community!

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Opscode To Steward Berkshelf

Chef was built from the beginning as an extensible framework that makes IT professionals’ lives easier. This extensibility has always led to interesting and exciting contributions from the community of Chef users. Innovative solutions for common challenges and process and tooling improvements help Chef users change the way IT works.

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Awesome Chefs – CustomInk Unites Dev & Ops, Codes Their Business

Our close friends at CustomInk make it easy for anyone to create customized T-shirts, sweatshirts, and much more online. (Sidenote: We work with them to make all our Opscode and Chef T-Shirts). CustomInk employs proprietary, primarily Ruby-based software applications running on both virtualized and cloud servers to manage everything from its website to its printers.

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