White PapersFeaturing 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, 2013As 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 » The State of Converged Instrastructure 2013Zenoss polled lots of people to find out about the state of converged infrastructure Download the White Paper »Monitoring IT Business Services: How Too Many Tools Can Impact Your IT Operation EfficiencyA recent Forrester Consulting survey found that enterprises overwhelmingly had a fundamental problem - too many tools - and that this situation keeps them from achieving their primary goals of lowering operating costs and increasing productivity. Download the white paper, Monitoring IT Business Services: How Too Many Tools Can Impact Your IT Operation Efficiency to understand the key findings from the survey and explore Forrester Consulting’s suggested next steps. Download the White Paper »Cloud Stats and Figures of 20122012 has been a huge year for the Cloud. In the eBook, we wanted to cut straight to the core of everything Cloud, more specifically, where everyone is in their journey to the cloud and the evolving IT landscape that it brings. So to get you the high level trends from 2012, we spent some time compiling surveys, data sets, case studies, white papers, and more to find some of the most compelling, up-to-date stats out there. Download the White Paper »The State of the Open Source Cloud 2012Zenoss polled its more than 100,000 community members to determine the prevailing sentiments concerning open source cloud deployments, the perceived advantages and disadvantages of this technology as well as to gain insight into future open cloud deployments within IT departments. Download the White Paper »7 Stages of IT Monitoring GriefDownload this eBook to find out where you are in the 7 Stages of IT Monitoring Grief and how you can put a stop to the endless cycle of the IT monitoring challenge. Download the White Paper »Optimizing Cloud for Service DeliveryThis white paper from EMA reflects the more advanced position of cloud adoption patterns today. While it still addresses core drivers, objectives, and obstacles as they are evolving, the white paper makes what may well be the industry’s most granular assessment on how management technologies and cloud accelerants (e.g., converged infrastructure) are being combined into successful clusters or footprints. Download the White Paper »Zenoss Service Dynamics Architecture OverviewThis paper discusses the management stack that supports the dynamic datacenter, how the pieces fit together, and how the Zenoss architecture addresses the challenges of the new IT world. Download the White Paper »Blueprint for Delivering IT-as-a-Service - 9 Steps for SuccessYou’ve got the materials (your constantly changing IT infrastructure). You’ve got the work order (your boss made that perfectly clear). But now what? Delivering IT-as-a-service has never been more challenging than it is today...virtualization, private, public, and hybrid cloud computing are drastically changing how IT needs to provide service delivery and assurance. You know exactly what you need to do, the big question is HOW to do it. If only there was some kind of blueprint for this… Download the White Paper »Can You Really Manage the Cloud?Download this eBook to get a comprehensive list of questions to guide your selection process for a cloud management solution, centered around Availability & Performance Monitoring, Event Management & Alerting, Infrastructure Visibility, Dynamic Resource Management, and Datacenter Insight. Download the White Paper »2010 Virtualization and Cloud Computing SurveyThe results of this survey were collected during the 2nd quarter of 2010 from the Zenoss open source systems management community with regards to their usage of virtualization and cloud computing. Download the White Paper »Breaking Through the "Virtualization Stall" BarrierIn this white paper, you will understand the technical and management challenges that have created VM stall, and how combining the right human and technical resources can help businesses accelerate the value and penetration of virtualized IT. Download the White Paper »Zenoss for Service ProvidersLearn how Zenoss can help service providers lower the cost of managing traditional physical infrastructures, enable the management of IT services deployed in real or virtual environments and provide a single view of IT infrastructure spanning traditional, virtual and Cloud. Download the White Paper »Zenoss Provides Service Assurance Monitoring for Cisco UCS CloudsRead the 451 Group review of Zenoss’ new service assurance monitoring product for end-to-end monitoring of public and private clouds running on Cisco Systems' Unified Computing System (UCS). Download the White Paper »Cisco UCS and Zenoss: Business to Blade Service Level MonitoringLearn how Zenoss unifies and improves IT service monitoring of key applications, business services, and infrastructures across dynamic, heterogeneous physical and virtual environments. Download the White Paper »Best Practices for Managing Virtualized EnvironmentsDiscover how to use best practices with a model-driven architecture to deliver simple and unified management to heterogeneous, virtualized environments. Download the White Paper » |