Meet Your Zenoss System Admin: Esteban Diocares

As we continue to celebrate system admins (sysadmins) who have made an impact, we spoke with another Zenoss system administrator rock star Esteban Diocares. Esteban has unique insight into Zenoss as a ZaaS operations systems admin — learn more about Zenoss as a Service here. How long have you been with Zenoss? Almost three years. What is ...

5 Pieces of ‘Fatherly Advice’ to Help Your Cloud Migration Strategy

Sometimes even complicated topics can benefit from being wrapped in a bit of “old-school” wisdom. To that effect, I wanted to offer up some advice on how to approach the idea of moving applications and workloads to the cloud, in other words – a cloud migration strategy, but in the way I image my father ...

Meet Your Zenoss System Admin: Marshall Dean

This week at Zenoss, we’re kicking off System Administrator Appreciation Day by highlighting some rock star systems admins! We got a chance to ask Marshall Dean a few questions about his experience as a senior IT systems engineer with Zenoss. First, what would you say is your main role as a sysadmin? Maintaining and supporting ...

What Happened at Cisco Live Isn't Staying in Vegas

Cisco Live Highlights

The #CLUS Event We just got back from Cisco Live US (#CLUS), and it really was an amazing event. Though I do feel like I spent a month in Vegas last week, the rumors of the demise of trade shows have been greatly exaggerated. Of course there is great value in digital marketing. But when ...

Cisco Digital Network Architecture and You

Down on the floor at the Cisco Live technology keynote with Queen’s “We Will Rock You” booming through the speakers – it must be time to hear all about the brand new Digital Network Architecture (DNA)! Oh, it’s only the first significant change in Cisco networking in the last 15 years, that’s all. New technology ...

Cloud Monitoring Talk: Zenoss Launches AWS 3.0 ZenPack

Latest Amazon Web Services ZenPack Expands AWS Monitoring Coverage and Integrates Cloud Cost Management We recently launched our latest Amazon Web Services (AWS) ZenPack. The launch of a ZenPack may not seem like earth-shattering news, but this one advances key capabilities for cloud environments, which is obviously a strategic aspect of hybrid IT monitoring and ...

5 Reasons to Be Cisco Livin’ With Zenoss

In 3 weeks, thousands of IT pros will be Cisco Livin’ in Las Vegas. But if this is your first time, or even your fifth time at this incredible event, Cisco Live can be a daunting place. With so many sessions to see, experts to meet and solutions to check out, one could use a ...

The ‘E’ in Zenoss Customer Enablement Team

“Customers for Life” — that is our mantra at Zenoss. In order to achieve this core value, we must be there every step of the way ensuring that customers are getting maximum value from their Zenoss deployment. Brian Wilson, our chief customer officer, has talked previously about how we approach customer success. (See his latest ...

Zenoss and Cisco Partner to Accelerate Software-Defined Networking Deployments for Service Providers

Key aspects of Cisco’s mission to transform business include accelerating time to revenue, reducing operational costs, and deploying new services at web speed. With Cisco’s technology innovation in SDN and NFV, today we announce a partnership with Cisco to provide an integrated NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) solution designed to accelerate SDN deployments in service provider environments. ...