OPSCODE CLOSES $11 MILLION SERIES B ROUND Battery Ventures Leads New Round in Infrastructure Automation Start-up; Sunil Dhaliwal to Join the Opscode Board of Directors SEATTLE, Wash – June 21, 2010 – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, announced today that it has closed an $11 million Series B round of funding.

Chef 0.9.0 Released Today I’m very happy to announce the release of Chef 0.9.0, Ohai 0.5.6, and mixlib-config 1.1.2. Chef 0.9.0 Brings some new features, a ton of under-the-hood cleanup, and lays the foundation for some big improvements ahead on the roadmap.

Join us for a Live Webcast – Chef Tips and Tricks Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010 Time: 11:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) Instructor: Joshua Timberman, Sr.

SEATTLE, WA—(Marketwire – 06/02/10) – Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure automation company, today announced the appointment of two new technical evangelists: Adrian Cole, founder of jclouds.org, an open source cloud framework that enables developers to reuse their java code, and Aaron Peterson, a 14-year systems and network veteran.

Please join us for a one hour presentation called “Introduction to Chef”. The presentation is a free Web based session that will include a fifteen minute Q&A.

Gluecon 2010 View more presentations from botchagalupe.

DevOps @ InterOP Las Vegas – Jesse Robbins – Opscode View more presentations from Jesse Robbins. I realized that I hadn’t posted my presentation on DevOps from Interop Las Vegas .

Jesse Robbins (Opscode CEO) is interviewed by O’Reilly Media on Cloud, Government, and Emergency Management @ Gov2.0 Expo 2010 Also see Jesse’s “High Level Bit” keynote speech at the Web2.0 Summit on the Pattern of Disaster Technology Innovation.

Gov 2.0: Scaling, Automation, & Management in the Cloud View more presentations from Jesse Robbins.