By: Kent Erickson >> Every year at this time hundreds of people make predictions about the coming year. It’s fun to guess at a few things, but when it comes to your own business it might be better to look back over last year’s trends and make a p Continue...

By: Kent Erickson>> Rodrigo Flores posed a Twitter question “If every large company is becoming a software company, but the executive suite doesn’t have background, how do they manage?” Wayne Greene and I chimed in with a few opinions, but I left Continue...

By: Peter LoBrutto >> Back in 2011, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop penned what came to be known as the “Burning Platform” Memo. He told the story about a man working on an oil platform in the North Sea, which one night burst into flames imposing a life o Continue...

By: Scott McIntyre >> One of the great things about buying my first house was the two-car garage.  Sure, it was nice to not have to share a wall with the people in the next unit.  Having a backyard, however small, was terrific.  Not worrying abou Continue...

By: Brian Wilson >> I arrived home from AWS re:Invent last fall and told my wife that our children would look back and point to today as an era of unprecedented change in the core fabric of business and IT. I still feel that way today. But my vie Continue...

By: Kent Erickson >> For my entire career, the fact that storage is really, really slow has been true. Slow storage results when a typical modern processor executes a hundred million instructions while it waits for a disk arm to move once. That f Continue...

By: Jill Ford >> Michio Kaku was the keynote last year for GalaxZ 15 and he ended up on a TurboTax commercial.  It's time to claim your fame! Zenoss is looking for IT professionals and business leaders to present challenges, strategies and succes Continue...

One of the most common requests that we hear is for orchestrated responses to events. Zenoss has the capability to run scripts in response to the event using the notification system. These scripts run locally on the Zenoss master server. But wouldn't i Continue...

I attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in December 2013 in Las Vegas, during which Colin Fletcher and Jonah Kowall gave a presentation titled “The Elusive Promise of Unified Monitoring: How to Monitor Infrastructure and Applications.”  The prese Continue...

Recently Zenoss’ marketing strategist Deepak Kanwar and senior solution engineer Jaime Colom hosted the webinar End Siloed Monitoring: Accelerate IT Operations with Unified Monitoring. I recommend it as a good discussion of the IT challenges that led t Continue...