Opscode Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm

SEATTLE, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- From #ChefConf 2012, Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has named Opscode as a "Cool Vendor" in DevOps.  Opscode recently announced that it's commercial customer base has surged into the hundreds, with customers ranging from small and medium sized businesses to Fortune 500 companies in Financial Services, Retail, Media and Entertainment, Hi-Tech and Internet Services.

The Gartner report "Cool Vendors in DevOps, 2012," published on April 19, 2012, and authored by Ronni J. Colville, Jim Duggan and Cameron Haight, states: "Interest in DevOps-oriented tools initially centered on configuration management technologies, but is expanding into the monitoring arena for operations teams. The desire to speed up the introduction of software updates into production is stimulating interest in tools that can automate the build, test and release life cycle."

"We believe Gartner's analysis is solid recognition of Opscode as an enabler of the DevOps movement and further validation of our role in driving a new era of infrastructure management and automation as enterprises begin to re-platform their IT infrastructure," said Jay Wampold, vice president of marketing, Opscode.

Opscode's pioneering software, Chef™, is an open-source systems integration framework built specifically for automating the cloud. No matter how complex the realities of business, Chef makes it easy to deploy servers and scale applications throughout an entire infrastructure. Through a combination of configuration management and service-oriented architectures, Open Source Chef, Hosted Chef™ and Private Chef™ make it simple to create an elegant, fully automated infrastructure while simplifying systems management.

About Opscode
Opscode is the leader in cloud infrastructure automation. Opscode helps companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably; can be quickly rebuilt in any environment; and save developers and systems engineers time and money. Opscode's team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world's largest websites and cloud computing platforms. More information can be found at www.opscode.com.

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