By: John Boyle >> Zenoss ZCasts provide a quick and informal forum for IT professionals to share their opinions on changing technologies and industry trends. We discuss best practices, potential challenges, and any other relevant topics that prov Continue...

As Red Hat closes in on becoming the first billion dollar Commercial Open Source Software Company, they haven’t lost sight of the next billion dollar opportunity; Cloud Computing.  Looking beyond Red Hat’s brilliant acquisition of Gluster, let’s explor Continue...

Today we announced our support for Citrix CloudStack™ which gives users a unified view of their cloud infrastructure.  Interest in building clouds, public or private, is on the rise. To ensure a successful cloud deployment IT must have unified visibili Continue...

Whether you think Cloud computing is revolutionary or evolutionary, the fact is it is a phenomenon that has “crossed-over” from IT into mainstream society.  From the pseudo technologists on TV who proclaim, I’m paraphrasing here, that one needs not to Continue...

Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of June 27th that are wor 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 May 2011.     The Key to IT Operations: Automate, Automate, Automate "In an “Everything-as-a-Service” world, there is a gr Continue...

In the post, “So What Exactly Is ‘The Cloud’ and How Does It Help My Company?,” Tracey Schelmetic delves into the many different names and forms of Cloud computing. There’s software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-a 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...

As you wind things down this Friday afternoon, we've put together a few final thoughts on Cloud Computing for you to digest. There were a lot of great articles to read this week, here's six of our favorites. Enjoy and have a great weekend! CIOs Should Continue...