Webinars

Featuring the latest trends and industry best practices, the Zenoss Resource Center brings you a library of white papers, webinars, demos and other information resources that will help you deliver dynamic service assurance to your heterogeneous, physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructure.

From The IT Operations Blog:

Before You Build Your First ZenPack, Read This Post [Part 2] — May 14, 2013

As I mentioned in Part 1 of my series on ZenPacks, you can find hundreds of ZenPacks on the Zenoss Wiki Page. But you may need a ZenPack to monitor... Continue »

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Converged Infrastructure and Management Lets IT Focus on Service

It's time to cut through the hype and hear the real deal on converged infrastructure.

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See it Done: Service Orchestration with Cisco UCS

In this webinar with Cisco, you will learn how to launch a new application in 20 minutes.

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Using Too Many Tools Hinders IT Operations

In this webinar with Forrester Consulting, we discuss how using too many tools hinders IT operations

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Zenoss Deep Dive – Unified Monitoring

Take a deep dive into unified monitoring and see how Zenoss provides a single pane of glass for monitoring all of your network devices including servers, network, applications, storage, virtualization, converged infrastructure, cloud and other event managers in your environment from a single tool.

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Zenoss Investigates: The State of the Open Source Cloud

Please watch a 1-hour round table discussion regarding the state of the open source cloud and what it means to your business and the broader cloud computing market. The panel includes Rob Hirschfeld, OpenStack Board Member and Principal Cloud Architect at Dell; Mark Hinkle, Senior Director, Cloud Computing Community at Citrix; Greg DeKoenigsberg, Vice President Community at Eucalyptus; and Floyd Strimling, Vice President Community, Technical Evangelist at Zenoss.

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Zenoss Investigates: Why Monitoring Sucks

Join Zenoss as we investigate why monitoring sucks and the implications of continuing down this path within today’s new paradigms of cloud computing, programmable datacenter, or the software defined datacenter. Zenoss will provide answers to why monitoring sucks and we will introduce the 7 Stages of IT Monitoring Grief

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Monitoring Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 The Right Way

Zenoss is Transforming IT Operations by providing an open and scalable commercial open source monitoring solution that provides unified monitoring, eventing, analytics and moves IT Operations from yesterday’s elemental monitoring to today’s service impact and RCA. In this 30-minute session you will learn the value of modeling and visualizing your KVM infrastructure, performance monitoring and eventing of RHEV3/KVM/oVirt and the benefits of unified monitoring, eventing, service impact and RCA

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Beyond Elemental Monitoring: Red Hat Infrastructure

Zenoss is Transforming IT Operations by providing an open and scalable commercial open source monitoring solution that is built for this service-based paradigm via a unique model based on an event driven approach to monitoring your Red Hat infrastructure. In this 30-minute session you will learn the benefits of modeling your Red Hat Infrastructure, agentless monitoring of Red Hat Infrastructure and service-based monitoring and Service-Impact RCA.

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Beyond SNMP: Monitoring Your Cisco Converged Infrastructure

IT Operations requires a monitoring platform that has the capability to utilize today's API or protocol based monitoring and combine it with SNMP data collection. In this 45-minute session you will learn Monitoring and Modeling of Cisco's Nexus, MDS, UCS, and Catalyst Switches running VSS, visualization of your IT infrastructure across multiple IT infrastructure domains and the Benefits of the Zenoss Platform versus Traditional Monitoring Tools.

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Automation of Events via Advanced Triggers & Notifications

Within today’s highly virtualized and dynamic IT infrastructures, the challenge automating routine tasks while providing proactive notification to the appropriate business and technology owners. Learn how to create flexible triggers based on the eventing system, create notifications and mobile notifications

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Managing Your Event Console: Event Transforms and Impact Policies

The event console is the heart and soul of your IT Operations. It provides a single pane of glass for all your distributed events while providing vital linkages to your service desk, change control system, orchestration and/or provisioning solutions, and more. Within today’s highly virtualized and dynamic IT infrastructures, the challenge is maintaining a clean event console that is accurate, real-time, and relevant.

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Transforming IT operations for the Cloud era: How SunGard Availability Services became more effective, efficient, and responsive to customer needs

The challenge for IT operations is to provide the proper instrumentation, service assurance, and analytics to an ever growing catalog of both internal and external services. Join our panel of experts – Nick Magliato, Chief Operations Officer, SunGard Availability Services; Jean-Pierre Garbani, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Forrester; and Floyd Strimling, Cloud Technology Evangelist, Zenoss – for a lively discussion on how organizations can address these IT challenges. You’ll also get a real-world perspective from SunGard Availability Services who transformed their IT operations by using Zenoss Service Dynamics to manage over 9,000 customers globally.

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Creating a Single Unified IT Operations Platform

Zenoss is Transforming IT Operations by providing an open and scalable platform that seamlessly integrates with 3rd party ISV or homegrown solutions to create a single unified IT Operations Platform. In this 30-minute session, you will learn the benefits of integrating IT Operations with your ITSM CMDB, automating ITSM Service Desk Actions within your IT Operations Platform and Unlocking the secrets within your IT Operations Platform

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End Siloed Monitoring: Turning Operations from No to Go!

The Cloud Era demands a new approach that provides for true unified monitoring and not simply a unified view or single-pane-of-glass. Zenoss is Transforming IT Operations by providing context, dynamic relationships, and ending silo’d monitoring.

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Eliminating Event Storms in IT Operations

These days it seems that IT Operations is resigned to live within a world of red event consoles filled with critical events and useless alerts. In this 30 minute session, you will learn how to eliminate event storms without needing a developer, benefits of moving from elemental to services monitoring and the advantage of in context automated actions / alerts based on a single eventing platform.

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Beyond Netcool: The Open Alternative

In this 30 minute session, you will learn the benefits of Zenoss Event Processing including event organization, correlation, and automation; the advantage of a unified solution and architecture that is highly extensible via ZenPacks; and how transformational IT begins with a dynamic model.

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Unified Monitoring for Citrix CloudStack™

Interest in building clouds, public or private, is on the rise. To ensure a successful cloud deployment IT must have unified visibility and real-time awareness of their entire cloud infrastructure. Join Zenoss and Citrix for a live webinar, “Unified Monitoring for Citrix CloudStack™,” to learn how to gain complete control and visibility into your cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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Managing The Cloud: Creating a Unified Cloud Management Strategy For Your Business

Watch an analyst roundtable presented by GigaOM Pro and Zenoss, "Managing The Cloud: Creating a Unified Cloud Management Strategy For Your Business." Our cloud experts discuss the key principles for creating a unified approach to managing a large cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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Introduction to Zenoss Service Dynamics

See Zenoss Service Dynamics in action! Join Zenoss product experts, Josh Duncan and Floyd Strimling for a lively 30-minute deep dive into the new features of Zenoss Service Dynamics.

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Blueprint for Delivering IT-as-a-Service: Evolution of IT Operations

Join Zenoss and a distinguished panel of industry experts for a 3-part webcast series, "Blueprint for Delivering IT-as-a-Service," to discover best practices for moving your IT operations to a service delivery model. In the first segment, "Evolution of Enterprise IT Operations," the panel discusses how the IT infrastructure is evolving to become more virtualized and dynamic, and what challenges that presents for organizations.

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Zenoss Deep Dive – Server Monitoring for Complex Infrastructures

Watch an engineering walk-through in Zenoss on what it takes to deliver service assurance for highly complex server infrastructures. From managing physical resources to highly virtualized server deployments, having the ability to monitor and manage everything while automating as much as possible is a must for today's server operations teams. Having real-time information across your entire server deployment and the necessary decision-support data, can mean the difference between proactively addressing impact events and failing to meet your SLAs.

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Zenoss Deep Dive – 4 Steps to Optimizing your VMware Virtualization Operations

Watch a Zenoss deep dive discussion on the operational capabilities needed to address the challenges of virtualization - from virtualization stall to sprawl. You'll see how leading enterprises are using Zenoss today to gain end-to-end visibility into their virtualized infrastructure by monitoring their virtual servers, operating systems, and application performance.

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Building the Cloud: Stop Talking and Start Building

While the hype continues around Cloud computing, today’s enterprises are starting to gain real benefits from implementing IT-as-a-Service. Don’t get left behind! Get a blueprint for how you can build and manage your cloud today through the lessons learned from leading cloud providers. Listen to a lively discussion with Cloud experts from Cisco, Redmonk and Zenoss on the steps needed to make the Cloud work.

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Unified Analytics for Cloud Operations

See Zenoss' new analytics and reporting capabilities in action. Learn how Zenoss provides cross-domain analysis across your physical, virtual & Cloud resources; unified analytics, ad-hoc reporting, & dashboard creation; and Cloud operations support with multi-tenant controls

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Next Generation Infrastructure Monitoring: 5 Key Considerations When Investing in a New Solution

Watch a lively discussion with Josh Duncan and Floyd Strimling from Zenoss on the future of monitoring the datacenter - from the physical, to the virtual, to the Cloud.

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Zenoss Deep Dive – vCloud Monitoring

Watch an engineering walk through of vCloud monitoring with Zenoss. If you are planning to deploy a private, public, or hybrid Cloud, or just want to learn more, we will show how Zenoss can help when it comes to giving you the insights required to manage dynamic infrastructures.

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It's a New Year: Time to Get Your Datacenter in Shape

Join Zenoss and Cisco to learn how Cisco Unified Computing reduces work and expenses in the dynamic datacenter.

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Zenoss Deep Dive – Unified Monitoring

Take a deep dive into unified monitoring and see how Zenoss provides a single pane of glass for monitoring all of your network devices, servers, hardware, and element managers.

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Zenoss Deep Dive – Unified Enterprise Network Monitoring

Watch a deep dive into unified network monitoring and see how Zenoss provides a single pane of glass for all of your network devices.

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Zenoss Deep Dive – Real-time Virtualization Monitoring

Watch an engineering walk through of real-time virtualization monitoring. Discover how to get end-to-end visibility into virtual servers, operating systems and application performance.

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Zenoss Deep Dive – Real-time Enterprise Server Monitoring

Watch an engineering walk through of real-time server monitoring. Hear how the world's leading enterprises are using Zenoss today to manage their complex and dynamic server infrastructures.

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Managing Business Application Service Across a Hybrid Physical and Virtual Infrastructure

Discover how to visualize and manage dynamic service across all layers and linkages between business applications, virtualization and the heterogeneous physical infrastructure.

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Best Practices for Managing Virtualized Environments

In this videocast, discover how to avoid the pitfalls of virtualization management and assure service in a virtualized environment.

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A Pragmatic Approach to Managing the Cloud

Tune in to learn how to overcome the top management issues of public and private clouds.

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Conquering Your Top Five Virtualization Management Headaches

Find out how to address your top five virtualization issues, including effectively monitoring resource performance and availability and discover ways to minimize datacenter disruptions for optimal performance.

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