By: Andrew Kirch >> The TechTarget network of technology-specific websites gives you access to industry experts, independent content, and analysis. One of their sites, Modern Infrastructure, just announced their Impact Awards to recognize the top products in your infrastructure. Zenoss is on the list, and it’s OK to say we are your favorite! Their write-up ...
By: Kent Erickson >> This week, Dave Bartoletti of Forrester and I collaborated on a webinar called “Cover Your Apps: Surviving in the Age of the Hyperscale Public Clouds.” Dave is big on funny titles, his piece on the Dell acquisition of EMC is “Dell Buys EMC, Creating a New Legacy Vendor.” You can view to ...
It's been a great year to be a Zenoss partner! Here is a look back at some of our partners' key accomplishments in 2015: Accenture Accenture Ranked as Top IT Services Vendor in Life Science Industry for 5th Year in a Row by Independent Research Firm: Accenture has been ranked as the number one life ...
By: Andrew Kirch >> Some History of the Proprietary Website Bear with me here, because you’re going to need some history. Recently, Microsoft released Windows 10, featuring the Microsoft Edge browser. Edge doesn’t support Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) — this includes items like Java and Flash. Simultaneously, Google Chrome removed Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface ...
By: William Gerber >> The one word we can all agree on for today’s IT environment: complex. With virtualization, cloud, software-defined data centers, the need for real-time everything, and scalability — there is so much stuff to keep track of! At the end of the day, customers just want managing simple Web applications to a ...
By: Kent Erickson >> Last Thursday, Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppet Labs, kicked off the fantastic PuppetConf 2015. Puppet is a big deal in data center automation. More than 30,000 organizations are using Puppet with 22 new organizations starting each day. But since Gartner reports that only 15 percent of organizations are using data center automation, ...
AWS is Leading IT's Reinvention in the Cloud InfoWorld | David Linthicum Amazon Web Services succeeds more than the rest because it doesn't stop innovating or offering new services. AWS Re:Invent 2015 is now a memory -- a good memory for Amazon Web Services fans and a bad memory for AWS’s competition. Read More... 3 ...
What an event with incredible minds and super high energy! More than 25,000 attendees from a mix of small- and big-name enterprises, and a strong representation from Ops and Dev types, all increasingly looking to build hybrid cloud architectures to maximize their IT investments and realize the benefits of the cloud. We would be remiss ...
By: Andrew Kirch >> Recently, I met Jim Salter at SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF). Jim is an IT consultant, and while he started with FreeBSD, spends much of his time on Windows and Linux these days. Jim is also the author of Sanoid, a GPLv3 extension to ZFS that does a lot of cool things. I caught ...
By: Kent Erickson >> For many, the most difficult step in the four steps to an Intelligent Data Center is the third — moving to a common infrastructure. Nearly every data center I’ve seen is home to an amazing collection of computing history. I expect to see an IT manager on Hoarders any day now! We ...
