Infochimps to Utilize Enterprise Chef
Opscode today announced that Infochimps 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.
Infochimps Cloud for Big Data combines real-time, query-based, and Hadoop and batch analytics to solve a wide range of enterprise data challenges. The company's fully managed Big Data solution eliminates the burden of infrastructure management and integrates with any data center, private and public cloud. To build, manage, and deliver its comprehensive data solutions, Infochimps deployed the hosted version of Enterprise Chef to ensure maximum speed and flexibility in meeting customer needs.
"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."
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. With Chef and Ironfan, Infochimps can install its services in any clients' IT environment, whether physical servers, virtualized resources, private or public cloud. Using Chef Cookbooks to automate resource configuration and IronFan for resource deployment, Infochimps can deliver fully-featured Big Data stacks in just hours, enabling the company's customers to access actionable data intelligence in no time flat.
