By: Andrew Kirch >> By this point in December, almost all of your major projects for the year should be done.  You’re starting to plan next year’s expansion, but there are some important corners that can’t be cut. Below, Zenoss shares 10 rules fo Continue...

In this day and age, there are varying views on open source adoption, especially in large-scale enterprise IT operations. While people still trust their large vendors for a variety of reasons, that line of thinking is very much outdated - quite like th Continue...

As Kent Erickson said in his recent post, What You Going Do when the Cloud Gets Slow on You, moving to the cloud doesn’t give you freedom to tune out the physical infrastructure behind the magic. If you’ve kept up with this blog, you know that pointing Continue...

Can you guarantee Service Assurance in your company? Well you should. Times have changed and as IT has evolved, delivering the same level of consistency in any business model is becoming not the goal but rather, the norm. What used to stem from a compa Continue...

Most of us live in a connected world using a combination of MMS/SMS messaging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, 24x7 News and Sports, Jive/SharePoint portals and more.  The challenge of living in this paradigm is simply what happens when one has nothing to Continue...

Even as I begin to write this blog posting, I can feel my blood pressure rising and my anger percolating.  I am tired of the supposed Cloud computing “experts” who continue to regurgitate other people’s thoughts or make ridiculous statements in the nam Continue...