The Cloud Expo is hopping again this year with a lively and engaged crowd. And Zenoss is right in the center of things with a busy booth and lots of Zennys (our zebra mascot)! Yesterday's highlight was the stage presentation by Wayne Greene of Cisco (@wmgreen0) and yours truly (@KentwithaT). A big audience gathered around ...
**UPDATED 11/21** It was recently mentioned that we did not give the full breakdown of our survey respondents. Here are the numbers behind the stats: 6% Zenoss Blog readers & Twitter Followers 10% OpenStack Conference Attendees, Boston 2011 84% Zenoss Community & Site Visitors In October, we gathered 772 survey responses from the ...
Today we announced our support for Citrix CloudStack™ which gives users a unified view of their cloud infrastructure. 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. I invite you to join Zenoss and ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of October 31st that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy! The Future of Cloud: Infrastructure as a Platform by ...
Day 1 was a blast and we had another busy day talking with attendees of NetApp Insight 2011 in Las Vegas. Today we talked about the issues that their customers have when deploying Flexpod solutions. There were three issues with near-universal approval: 1) "I thought I was buying one product. But now I have ...
A lot happens throughout the month and keeping track of it all is a chore. Here are some of our most popular posts from October, 2011. 3 Reasons Why Monitoring Has Failed Operations by Floyd Strimling These days it seems that the market is enamored with new technologies such as orchestration and provisioning. However, the reality ...
We had a great day at NetApp Insight, talking about Zenoss Flexpod Service Assurance. The technical crowd engaged in lengthy discussions with Product Manager Gerard Berthet at the demonstration station. Gerard said "They really understood the unique advantages of Intelligent Service Assurance." The concept of unified Flexpod monitoring, putting into one system the performance, availability, ...
As I travel the world talking with enterprises, service providers, or attending/speaking at conferences about Cloud computing, I find that there are many incredible open source projects that have not yet crossed-over into the mainstream. While I’d love to write about Red Hat’s Aeolus or VoltDB, I thought I’d stick to three solutions I find ...
At Zenoss, we replace a lot of legacy monitoring systems. From time to time we’ll share a customer‘s story about the stuff we’re replacing. Product names are changed to protect the guilty. Customer names are changed to avoid embarrassment. The stories are real; the quotes are altered for humor. We guess. – Moderator. We talked to ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of October 24th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy! The Web of APIs = the Web of ...
