It’s always fascinating to watch legacy/proprietary software vendor’s bloviate about the value of closed software. With the advent of Commercial Open Source vendors such as Red Hat, one would have thought this argument would have been put to bed. Let’s explore three areas in which Legacy/Proprietary loses to Commercial Open Source. Development Philosophy Most proprietary ...
Ask 10 people what Cloud computing is and you’ll probably get 8 different answers and 2 blank stares. Even in the face of a definition from NIST, Cloud computing is evolving too fast for any single expression of its capabilities or future. In the face of all this hype and excitement, let’s explore three things ...
Open Systems OpenStack is all the rage in some circles. For those who are unfamiliar with this open source project, it began as joint project between RackSpace Cloud and NASA that integrates code from NASA’s Nebula platform and RackSpace’s Cloud Files platform. At this point, 136 companies are using or supporting OpenStack. The list includes ...
Back when I was in college, our football team was regularly featured in the Bottom 10. There wasn’t much we could do against the powerhouse teams, so our cheers changed from “Fumble Turkeys Fumble” to a more plaintive “Turkeys Turkeys Turkeys.” This edition of “I Hate Monitoring” is similar. Our friends at a media company were getting flattened by two ...
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I’d like to give thanks to 10 individuals that changed the course of human history. Although these individuals are not as famous as Gates, Jobs, or Ellison, their contributions to shaping the world, as we know it, are enormous. Test your knowledge of history by matching the ...
During the week of December 5th, Zenoss will be sponsoring the 25th USENIX Large Installation System Administrator (LISA) Conference. I'll talk more to that in a future post, but on Friday, December 9th, we will be taking part in the CloudStack Build a Cloud Day. In early November, we announced a new ZenPack for CloudStack support. ...
Recently I’ve noticed what I think is the end of standards-based design-it-yourself in datacenters. Instead, pre-integrated Flexpod and vBlock systems are becoming the choice for cloud and virtualization projects. Last week NetApp disclosed that Flexpod has been selected by 450 customers in its first year. This is quite comparable to the VCE numbers Michael Capellas ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, Service Assurance, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of November 14th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy! VCs: Don’t mistake cloud computing for ...
As Red Hat closes in on becoming the first billion dollar Commercial Open Source Software Company, they haven’t lost sight of the next billion dollar opportunity; Cloud Computing. Looking beyond Red Hat’s brilliant acquisition of Gluster, let’s explore three quiet projects that are potentially industry game changers. OpenShift OpenShift is Red Hat’s platform-as-a-service solution ...
Zenoss is excited to be a sponsor at the upcoming Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. If you have not been before, it's a great place to learn and keep up to speed with the ever-evolving data center. Not only that, but it's the 30th anniversary of this conference too, so it's going to ...
