One of the breakout sessions during GalaxZ, presented by Ed Wang, senior manager of automation and monitoring tools at NetApp, was focused on how organizations could improve their IT monitoring ecosystems to keep up with new technology and growing busi Continue...

By: Megan Lueders  >> With only a few weeks left in 2016, we want to thank you for another successful year. This quarter alone Zenoss released 25 ZenPacks, launched Resource Manager 5.2, and saw our SaaS business grow 100 percent. Preparations fo Continue...

By: John Boyle >> Most happenings that go on in Las Vegas stay in Vegas but Cisco Live 2016 was so fantastic Zenoss just has to share with the world. Some of the fantastic highlights were learning tracks on the Internet of Things (IoT), security, Continue...

By: Andrew Kirch >>   In last week’s blog article, we discussed commercial, and semi-proprietary options for a better firewall experience at home.   Most Commercial Off-the-Shelf routers can be reflashed with open source firmware giving them Continue...

Last September we wrote about the boom in hyperconvergence at VMworld. “It seemed like half the show floor was filled with hyperconverged infrastructure hardware vendors.” We were interested in the trend and excited by the promise of the technology. No Continue...

The Zenoss blog provides perspectives on IT, monitoring best practices, industry insights, and more. We are excited about the 2016 editorial calendar and many new guest contributors. Thank you to all of the readers and be sure to subscribe today! Below Continue...

By: Peter LoBrutto >> If I may paraphrase Shakespeare’s Hamlet for a moment, there comes a time when every enterprise software customer must face a strategic decision: should we purchase multiple point products from one or more vendors and stitch Continue...

By: Kent Erickson >> Each year, Zenoss surveys hundreds of organizations about their use of converged infrastructure – those packaged combinations of compute, storage, network, and virtualization that are increasingly powering the intelligent dat Continue...

By: Kent Erickson >> The week of Nov. 9, I’m hosting a webinar review of the results of our 2015 State of Converged Infrastructure survey. My first choice for a headline, “The End of the Multivendor Data Center,” was rejected on the grounds that Continue...

By: Andrew Kirch >> Recently, I met Jim Salter at SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF). Jim is an IT consultant, and while he started with FreeBSD, spends much of his time on Windows and Linux these days. Jim is also the author of Sanoid, a GPLv3 extension Continue...