Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Service Assurance Delivered

Zenoss recently participated in OSS in the Era of SDN & NFV: Evolution vs. Revolution, an industry-leading conference presented by Light Reading in London. The conference was well attended by global telecom leaders, architects, Light/Heavy Reading analysts, and TM Forum (TMF) leaders. Zenoss contributed to the event content through our NFV and SDN service assurance ...

Power of Pizzas: 5 Things to Bring Back to Your IT Team From AWS re:Invent

If the AWS re:Invent user conference taught us anything, it’s that hybrid IT (a mix of cloud and on-premises resources) is the model of the future. Extending to every corner of the IT kingdom, if you aren’t in the process of moving some of your infrastructure to the cloud, then you’re already there and finding ...

Overlay Networks Are a Big Blind Spot

You’ve been doing networking for a long time, and you know that every additional layer makes troubleshooting harder. Extending Layer 2 private networks with VXLAN and finding out that your toolkits don’t span both the underlay and overlay networks Overprovisioning the physical network to try to maintain acceptable performance No more quick fixes like unplugging ...

The End of On-Premises Enterprise Software

If you work closely with enterprise IT, you’ve likely said something like “that legacy functionality will be SaaS/cloud-based in the next five years,” and you’ve probably been wrong more times than you’d care to admit. Even though the first SaaS-based (not then cloud-based) IT operations products were available almost 20 years ago, most IT operations ...

Zenoss and Nutanix: A Key Step Towards Lights-Out IT Operations

Zenoss is Nutanix Ready Integrated

Zenoss and Nutanix are excited to shine the spotlight on and announce the release of the Nutanix ZenPack and the certification of Zenoss as Nutanix AHV Ready and AHV Integrated through the Nutanix Elevate partner program. Most organizations have deployed a host of monitoring tools to keep their business services running smoothly, yet the cost ...

All-In On Cloud? You Bet. Absolutely. No Problem.

All-In On Cloud? You Bet. Absolutely. No Problem. If your IT list now includes, “Make a plan to move everything to the cloud by next year,” then you realize how serious your business is about change. Public clouds are delivering on their promise of operational simplicity, rapid spin-up of new applications, and capital-investment-free computing. You ...

Software-Defined IT Operations - The Journey

IT operations professionals live in a constant state of trying to keep up with the latest business needs while attempting to apply the latest technology evolutions. The data center continues its significant transition to becoming completely software defined as well as all the way to disappearing for those with the luxury of going all cloud. ...

How Creating Value Leads to Customers for Life

Could there be a better reminder of what is important for any Chief Customer Officer out there than Customer Experience Day? With all the disruption in businesses and business models today, it does not surprise me at all to see the confusion about how exactly leaders today should think about what Customer Success really is. ...

Boston Amazon Web Services (AWS) Meetup

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of speaking in front of the Boston Amazon Web Services Meetup Group, at their monthly meetup. Zenoss co-hosted the event with Everbridge,, and we were joined by AWS DevOps guru Matthew Trescot. The topic of the three-pronged session centered on DevOps best practices in a ”cloud-first” world and, ...

Face 2 Face: Advice from CEO Greg Stock

On Tuesday, September 12, Zenoss CEO, Greg Stock, hit the stage with Colin Pope, editor of the Austin Business Journal (ABJ). For more than five years the ABJ’s Face 2 Face series has showcased some of the brightest industry leaders including Martha Stewart, Tony Hsieh and Chad Dickerson to share their personal stories, tales from the ...