Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from across the web about the transformations taking place in IT. Here are some great articles they selected from 2/4/2013 that are worth taking a look at. Dell Enters into Agreement to Be Acquired Continue...

A lot happens throughout the month and keeping track of it all is a chore. Here are some of our most popular posts from October, 2011. 3 Reasons Why Monitoring Has Failed Operations by Floyd Strimling These days it seems that the market is enamored wit Continue...

I invite you to join us for an informative webinar with Aberdeen Group, Your Journey to the Cloud: Four Steps to Virtualization Success. Please join me and Dick Csaplar, Senior Research Analyst, Virtualization & Storage at Aberdeen Group. In a rece Continue...

As VMworld 2011 comes to a close, I've formulated a few thoughts and observations on a interesting week in Las Vegas. In the end, it was great to catch up with partners, competitors, new and old friends while providing a sneak-peak into Zenoss Service Continue...

Following up on my previous post, the second reason why automatic provisioning has been so difficult for IT to master is what Jonathan Eunice of Illuminata, called "Crap Configuration Management." According to Jonathan, IT has done a lousy job at knowi Continue...

Automatic provisioning is a given in so many situations today, yet deploying it is still extremely hard to do. When I asked my IT buddy, Jonathan Eunice of Illuminata, why this is the case in 2011, he gave me two reasons, the first of which is variatio Continue...

The OpenStack project is just about 1 year old now and while I've kept an eye on their effort, I haven't really had a chance to really dig in until now (you can also check out Josh's summary of the event). After attending the Conference and Summit last Continue...

Today’s “always up, always on” work environments require quick access to resources.  Whether it’s to cover increased demand for existing services or for new business requests, IT is being asked to respond with near-instant provisioning. In order to sup Continue...

By now, you most likely heard that Amazon suffered an outage yesterday of their industry leading Cloud services.  The news of this outage transcended technical news publications and the blogosphere only to land them on the front page of CNNFN.com.  How Continue...

In preparation for our upcoming webinar, Building the Cloud, I sat down with Michael Cote, from Red Monk, to get an experts view of what's going on. The plan was to have a short discussion but once we got started we ended up talking for close to 30 min Continue...