Opscode Expands Overseas as Enterprise Cloud Software Biz Grows
October 4, 2012
Grazed from Xconomy. Author: Curt Woodward.
Opscode, a Seattle startup that offers cloud-computing software and services for businesses, is putting some of its recent venture cash to use with expansions in Europe and Asia.
The new European office—which starts with just one London-based employee—will focus on sales and fostering the open-source community participating in Chef, the software system that Opscode created for managing IT resources. In Japan, Opscode is partnering with another company that will distribute its software and support the open-source community…
Opscode already has seen its service start to catch on overseas, with Europe accounting for about a quarter of the registered users in its open-source community and about 50 paying customers. “We do have a pretty good-sized commercial footprint over there already,” marketing vice president Jay Wampold says…
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