Rackspace and its Partners are the OpenStack Experts Helping Enterprises and Service Providers Deploy and Support OpenStack Clouds March 8, 2011 – Organizations deploying OpenStack™, the open source cloud operating system, can now receive formal service and support offerings from Rackspace® Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing.

We’re excited to release Chef 0.9.14, with over 65 resolved bugs and improvements. With 0.10.0 right around the corner, we have been spending some extra time triaging tickets lately. Functionality changes and major new features are heading into 0.10 while 0.9 will continue forward as our stable branch for three months after 0.10.0 is released.

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is this weekend and Opscode is excited to be there at a number of events associated with it. Friday is the DevOps Day Los Angeles and our very own John Willis and Adam Jacob will be there.

This weekend in Austin TX, Opscode Technical Evangelist Matt Ray will be participating in the GeekAustin DevOps Series #1. The GeekAustin DevOps day is a free event that will feature open source configuration management tools, including Chef.

At the recent Data Day Austin, Opscode Technical Evangelist Matt Ray gave a talk with Infochimps‘ CTO Flip Kromer on using Chef to deploy Hadoop clusters. The talk discusses DevOps and provides a quick overview of Chef, how it works and why it is important for Big Data users.

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.