Transforming IT Operations #94: Global IT Spending for 2013, DevOps & ITIL Commonalities

Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from across the web about the transformations taking place in IT. Here are some great articles they selected from 8/9/2013 that are worth taking a look at. Changing the Conversation Around IT Operations Management — Zenoss Blog A Look At The Top Three Network Monitoring Tools — By Prashant ...

Changing the Conversation around IT Operations Management

In today’s cloud-filled world, the conversation around operations management is – as it should be – all about service assurance. Can IT deliver the server, storage, networking, and application resources necessary to meet business needs? The focus on service assurance isn’t really a new concept – it’s been talked about since the transition from mainframe ...

Need To Make a Business Case for Zenoss? Watch this. [Webinar Recap]

Recently Zenoss’ marketing strategist Deepak Kanwar and senior solution engineer Jaime Colom hosted the webinar End Siloed Monitoring: Accelerate IT Operations with Unified Monitoring. I recommend it as a good discussion of the IT challenges that led to the development of Zenoss Service Dynamics (ZSD), it is followed by Jaime Colom’s demo of how the ...

Transforming IT Operations #93: Praising IT Sales Reps, A New CIO, IT Tunnel Vision

Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from across the web about the transformations taking place in IT. Here are some great articles they selected from 8/2/2013 that are worth taking a look at. In Praise of IT Sales Reps — By Chuck Hollis | Chuck's Blog Enterprise Cloud Computing Isn’t the Same for Every Enterprise — ...

Zenoss vs. Zenoss: The Sequel [Webinar]

We had great turnout for our May 17th Webinar on Zenoss vs. Zenoss – The Core vs. Commercial Throw Down.  (You can read the recap or watch the replay if you missed it). Since then, there have been quite a few requests for an even deeper feature-level comparison of the Zenoss Open Source and Enterprise ...

Transforming IT Operations #92: Happy SysAdmin Day!

It's Systems Administrator Day and here at Zenoss we are celebrating in proper fashion for the occasion. We're taking time today to thank all the IT wizards out there who help laymen and colleagues alike deal with event disasters, manage downtime, and set up email accounts. Without all of your hard work, the day-to-day tasks of ...

Rapid Provisioning, Rapid Service Assurance, Rapid Success

UCS Director with Zenoss Delivers  Automated Provisioning and Service Assurance When the number one reason that CIOs choose converged infrastructure turns out to be “more agility” then it’s time for smart IT managers to figure out how to move to orchestrated provisioning.  After all, Cisco reports that nearly 75% of staff time is spent configuring, deploying, ...

Rapid Provisioning, Rapid Service Assurance, Rapid Success

UCS Director with Zenoss Delivers  Automated Provisioning and Service Assurance When the number one reason that CIOs choose converged infrastructure turns out to be “more agility” then it’s time for smart IT managers to figure out how to move to orchestrated provisioning.  After all, Cisco reports that nearly 75% of staff time is spent configuring, deploying, ...

Transforming IT Operations #91: VMWare Sells Zimbra, The Future of Performance Monitoring, The Vatican Data Centers

Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from across the web about the transformations taking place in IT. Here are some great articles they selected from 7/19/2013 that are worth taking a look at. VMware Sells Zimbra Amid Shift in Strategy - By Willliam Alden | The New York Times Forrester is now projecting ...