Press Release

Zenoss Showcasing Core Project at OSCON

2010/07/19

Portland, OR – OSCON – July 19, 2010

• What: OSCON 2010
• When: July 19-23, 2010
• Where: Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR

Zenoss Inc., an open source provider of enterprise IT service assurance products for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT environments, today announced that it is participating in a number of events at the Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon from July 19-23. Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, will be participating in two panel sessions on Wednesday, July 21 in addition to DevOps GameDay, which is part of CloudCamp PDX on Monday, July 19 at 8:15 PM.

Hinkle is taking part in the session entitled "Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing" on Wednesday July 21 at 1:40 PM. Alongside participants John Willis of Opscode and Alex Honor of the ControlTier project, the conversation will provide an overview of four key areas for the management of cloud computing and virtual infrastructure and the open source tools available to achieve success managing these environments in each area. At 5:20 PM on the same day, Hinkle will join Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk, Evan Prodromou of StatusNet, Aaron Williamson of Software Freedom Law Center), and John Pugh of Canonical in a session entitled "Web Services: How Can Open Source Software Compete?" to discuss what people are doing to define and create "free" web services.

Zenoss is a major participant in DevOps GameDay, a meeting of developers, system administrators and network engineers meeting up at CloudCamp PDX on Monday, July 19 at 8:15 PM to create a simple web application running WordPress at http://reserve.dyntini.com in Amazon EC2. These groups meet at conferences to test failed, real-world systems and tools integration scenarios, and experiment with how to maximize uptime.

Zenoss is the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, an award winning open source network monitoring and systems management project that delivers the functionality to effectively manage the configuration, health and performance of networks, servers and applications through a single, integrated software package. The Zenoss Community is comprised of over 85,000 active members who are instrumental in evolving the solution as well as providing timely support and help for all questions.

About Zenoss Inc.

Zenoss is a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy enterprise IT service assurance products. Zenoss Enterprise is a single model-based product that enables organizations to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure with unprecedented power, agility and value. Leveraging a commercial open source model, Zenoss products monitor over one million network and server devices daily and have been used in over 25,000 organizations in 180 countries around the world. Commercial customers include leading companies such as Rackspace, VMware, LinkedIn, Carlson, Motorola and Deutsche Bank. To learn more about Zenoss' award-winning IT operations management software, visit http://www.zenoss.com.

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