Last week, we released the results of our State of the Open Source Cloud survey (complete with infographic) and needless to say, the interest level in these results was impressive. After looking over the results, it was clear we needed to dive further. What better way is there to discuss these results than with the current, ...
Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from the week. Here are some great articles they selected from the week of 10/1/2012 that are worth taking a look at. Citrix cashes in and unites Xen, CloudStack investments in Project Windsor by Paula Rooney | ZDNet Citrix this week unveiled XenServer 6.1 upgrade that is ...
There is no doubt that open source clouds are on the minds of both open source communities/projects and commercial entities. With 3/4 of 2012 behind us, we thought it was time to get some feedback on The State of the Open Source Cloud. We polled more than 100,000 community members to determine the prevailing sentiments concerning ...
Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from the week. Here are some great articles they selected from the week of 9/24/2012 that are worth taking a look at. Why OpenStack owes its success to Amazon by David Linthicum | InfoWorld Who would have thunk it. The OpenStack Foundation now has a 24-person board, ...
Last week, Floyd Strimling wrote a post on Why Monitoring Sucks, which got a decent amount of attention. While the overall origin of the meme is not that old, the industry paradigms it encompasses and the underlying truths it highlights have been around for decades. Monitoring doesn't suck more/less than any other IT discipline, it's ...
OpenStack is one of the most exciting open source projects in existence today and its original founders, NASA and Rackspace, should be commended for their commitment to open source and innovation. From its humble beginnings to today’s massive hype and financial backing, OpenStack has both promise and challenges in its future. Rather than write yet ...
Forbes has announced their Top Ten Most Innovative Companies In America and Red Hat has landed as number 4 on the list. A remarkable achievement for a commercial open source company that was founded on humble beginnings in 1993 and has grown to the world’s first billion-dollar commercial open source software company. Red Hat’s mission is ...
Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from the week. Here are some great articles they selected from 9/17/2012 that are worth taking a look at. Storm Clouds Will Gather If Your Data Strategy Isn’t Right by Jeremy Neal | Business Computing World Cloud computing can help businesses achieve ‘opex nirvana’ – that is, ...
Let’s face it, a "challenging" career within IT has never been a relaxing walk in the park. Whether it is the pressure of maintaining legacy systems on a shoestring budget, the challenge of learning new technology, the stress of constant outsourcing pressure, the rewards of carrying a pager (yes, a pager), the pleasure of working ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of September 10th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Telecom Clouds Drift Toward ...
