By: Kent Erickson >> Whenever we buy something, we have to compare options, and for each one we ask “Can they give me what I want?” If you want reliable personal transportation you might look for a manufacturer with years of published reliability Continue...

By: Adam Bacia >> After a decade and a half in the IT industry, it’s pretty clear to me that a few clichés do indeed ring true. First, “change” really is the only constant, and second, the pace of that change only continues to accelerate. This is Continue...

By: Peter LoBrutto >> If I may paraphrase Shakespeare’s Hamlet for a moment, there comes a time when every enterprise software customer must face a strategic decision: should we purchase multiple point products from one or more vendors and stitch Continue...

By: Kent Erickson >> Each year, Zenoss surveys hundreds of organizations about their use of converged infrastructure – those packaged combinations of compute, storage, network, and virtualization that are increasingly powering the intelligent dat Continue...

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...