Opscode helps enable Infochimps' 'Cloud for Big Data'

SEATTLE, USA: Opscode, has announced that Infochimps, a CSC big data business, and provider of cloud-based Big Data services for the enterprise, has automated its Infochimps Cloud for Big Data with Opscode Enterprise Chef.

Using Enterprise Chef, Infochimps has automated configuration management and application delivery for its Big Data platform, enabling the information analytics innovator to go from zero to full production for its customers in less than six hours, said a release.

Infochimps Cloud for Big Data combines real-time, query-based, and Hadoop and batch analytics to solve a wide range of enterprise data challenges.

"Delivering a managed service as data-intensive as ours makes automation critical, since we have to get up and running quickly regardless of customer environment or specifications," said Flip Kromer, head of Technology & Architecture, Infochimps.

"Enterprise Chef's declarative model lets us make a high-level blueprint of any infrastructure and easily custom-fit our Big Data platform to our clients' needs - all with a super-reliable code base that's versioned and repeatable."

"Infochimps approach to Big Data makes a ton of sense - use Chef and the cloud to eliminate the infrastructure burden for clients and then give them unlimited flexibility to analyze and act on their business information," said Adam Jacob, chief dev dfficer, Opscode. "I also love that Infochimps are big Chef Community contributors, beginning with Ironfan and stretching into Cookbooks and much more."

Integrating Enterprise Chef and Ironfan, Infochimps' open source provisioning, deployment, and updating tool, the company has automated the entire compute stack for its cloud-based Big Data platform.