Opscode raises $2.5M to manage cloud applications
Opscode, a company that automates the management of applications in the Internet cloud, has raised $2.5 million in funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Seattle-based Opscode has released an open source system called Chef which it says is already used by Engine Yard, 37Signals, Wikia, and others. With Chef, companies can run their applications on cloud computing platforms like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), then write code to automatically scale applications and resources up and down as… Continue Reading