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...

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 1/14/2013 that are worth taking a look at. Netflix Wants Open Source Developers, Cl Continue...

Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of April 15th that are worth t Continue...

In my first DevOps post, I discussed why DevOps isn’t the technology equivalent of Donny Most (Ralph Malph of Happy Days) with his fistful of chocolate and Robby Benson with his jar labeled “Peanut Butter,” crashing into each other in front of the corn 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...

When WordPress was first released back in 2003, it was considered blogging software, something you ditch Blogger for so that you can design your own header graphic or self-host a blog on your own domain name without having to be a code whiz. At least t 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...