By: Peter LoBrutto >> If I may paraphrase Shakespeare’s Hamlet for a moment, there comes a time when every enterprise software customer must face a strategic decision: should we purchase multiple point products from one or more vendors and stitch them together to meet our needs? Or should we purchase a product suite from a ...
By: Kent Erickson >> Each year, Zenoss surveys hundreds of organizations about their use of converged infrastructure – those packaged combinations of compute, storage, network, and virtualization that are increasingly powering the intelligent data center. The 2015 survey results are in, and we’re sharing them in the 2015 State of Converged Infrastructure Report. I was excited that the ...
By: Nick Turner >> If you have been working in IT long enough, you are bound to have had the dreaded day where you are told via ticket or in person that the network is down. I know I have run into this scenario a few times in my career, and each time the goal is ...
By: Brian Wilson >> Every year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, courts and advocates around the U.S. and its territories gather to finalize the adoption of children out of foster care. As the proud father of three children, two of whom are adopted, I can personally delight in the experience for both the families and children ...
By: Kent Erickson >> The week of Nov. 9, I’m hosting a webinar review of the results of our 2015 State of Converged Infrastructure survey. My first choice for a headline, “The End of the Multivendor Data Center,” was rejected on the grounds that nobody believed it. OK, they’re right. But what we’re seeing from the ...
By: Andrew Kirch >> The new year is coming up, and we want to know what you want to hear about from us! What are the IT topics that are most helpful to you? What are you planning to do next year? What are you planning to do better next year? Head over to our ...
By: Megan Lueders >> Joining Zenoss last month as vice president of marketing is an exciting new chapter in my own life story. As I walked the halls during the interview process, met people from various departments, saw the "Zelfie Wall" (Zelfie: A photo of oneself, taken by a Zenossian at a client site or with a client, ...
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 ...
