Originally written and posted on Google+ My colleagues and I have written plenty of times about Zenoss’ involvement with various Cloud projects. These are currently focused mostly around OpenStack and Crowbar, which we use and develop for (respectively Continue...

On February 29, 2012, Red Hat’s fiscal year came to a close and they are expected to cross an important milestone; becoming the first billion dollar commercial open source software company.  Whether or not you believe they are the first open source sof Continue...

This was originally posted on the Zenoss Google+ Page. Go ahead, Circle Us! It wasn’t long ago that the software giant Microsoft was on a path of self destruction (some think they still are) by pushing to shutdown anything to do with open source, inter Continue...

This week in the Platen Report, Floyd discusses why the cloud can't work without proper instrumentation. There's a lot of about the cloud these days, but the two topics that are stealing the spotlight right now are provisioning and instrumentation. Joi Continue...

Taking a step back from the world of monitoring, virtualization and cloud can be rather humbling at times. When you think about it in very elementary terms, everything that we do on a daily basis is reduced into bits, stored somewhere, sent other place 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...