By: Kent Erickson >> Last Thursday, Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppet Labs, kicked off the fantastic PuppetConf 2015. Puppet is a big deal in data center automation. More than 30,000 organizations are using Puppet with 22 new organizations starting each Continue...

As we wrote in our previous blog post, “Bridging the Gap Between DevOps and ITOps”, there are a lot of organizational synergies to be gained from driving increased collaboration between ITOps and DevOps (see our eBook, Conflict to Cooperation: Aligning Continue...

Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from across the web about the transformations taking place in IT. Here are some great articles they selected from 2/4/2013 that are worth taking a look at. VCE Advances Integrated Server Vision by Continue...

In his post 3 Reasons Why Monitoring Has Failed Operations, our own Floyd Strimling explains that operations teams must use automation if they are building the sort of environment that can support a DevOps model: Every major aspect of a datacenter is u Continue...

Originally Posted on the Zenoss Google+ Page. Please Circle Us to Join the Discussion. In my last blog I talked about building out an OpenStack cluster and briefly mentioned that one way we’re using it is a continuous integration system to build and te Continue...

A while back, Forrester Research analyst Mike Gualtieri wrote a blog post titled I Don’t Want DevOps. I Want NoOps, where he proposes taking operations out of the developer equation: The goal of NoOps is … to improve the process of deploying applicatio Continue...

During our recent chat, Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies disabused me of the notion that DevOps fits my original peanut butter cup analogy. “It’s obvious the misconception happens because of the name,” Kanies said. According to Kanies, DevOps primarily is a Continue...

When I first heard the term DevOps a few months ago, it seemed like something self-evident, a mash-up of Development and Operations like how a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup combines chocolate and peanut butter. Instead of developers chucking applications o Continue...

During the week of December 5th, Zenoss will be sponsoring the 25th USENIX Large Installation System Administrator (LISA) Conference. I'll talk more to that in a future post, but on Friday, December 9th, we will be taking part in the CloudStack Build a Continue...