Applications serve as the backbone of countless operations, driving productivity, customer experience and business success. Tracking and managing their performance is therefore critical to maintain continuity and efficiency, enabling IT teams to proact Continue...

By: Kent Erickson >> When I wrote the four-step prescription for an Intelligent Data Center, the first step, the most important step, was “applications first.” Applications are what makes your company money. A surprisingly big challenge to an “ap Continue...

By: Kent Erickson >> At the end of July, Zenoss delivered a customer feature straight from our Customer Advisory Board's requests. The Layer 2 ZenPack helps customers identify application and network root causes. Root cause analysis for applicati Continue...

At SXSW Interactive, you’re elbow-to-elbow with folks that the Wall Street Journal calls “some of the most social, tech-savvy and innovative early adopters you’ll meet.” But since many Zenoss Blog readers couldn’t make it to the conference this year, I Continue...

In an effort to consolidate their servers, organizations start by virtualizing their low-risk, low-impact systems. These Web servers, file servers, internal applications, and test machines generally make up about one-third of the total number of server Continue...