Two weeks ago, I attended a UCS administration training class at my local Cisco facility. It was a real pleasure to get hands-on and hear what my fellow attendees were up to. The intimate group included just two vastly different organizations. Yet, a U Continue...

Zenoss is excited to be a sponsor at the upcoming Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. If you have not been before, it's a great place to learn and keep up to speed with the ever-evolving data center. Not only that, but it's the 30th anniversar Continue...

Last week at VMworld we asked a secret shopper to visit all the major cloud management vendors (BMC, CA, HP, IBM, and CA Nimsoft) and ask the Toughest Cloud Management Question. VMworld is a great place to do this. Because the attendees are very smart Continue...

What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is all the rage in the media right now. Often it is spoken of as something new, different and exciting even though service bureaus were in use in the 1960s, hosting and manged services providers appeared in the Continue...

From time to time organizations find that a critical application, say the one that produces a business critical report, slows down and the reason isn’t immediately clear. When the CEO or some Vice President starts calling to find out “where is that rep Continue...

Server Virtualization The emergence of powerful virtual machine software for industry standard (X86) systems has changed how many organizations look at deploying server-based applications and services. In the past, many organizations would deploy a sin Continue...

Virtualization and cloud computing are rapidly becoming part of doing business. On-demand IT means that resources that used to be deployed once and then managed are now constantly being de-provisioned and re-provisioned. Change is now constant and some Continue...

By now, you most likely heard that Amazon suffered an outage yesterday of their industry leading Cloud services.  The news of this outage transcended technical news publications and the blogosphere only to land them on the front page of CNNFN.com.  How Continue...

For organizations scaling their operations to the Cloud, your overall success will ultimately come down to your ability to make short and long-term planning decisions. Instead of waiting for the infrastructure to be built to determine how you are going Continue...