About the Survey: Since its launch in 2013, the State of Converged Infrastructure Survey has grown in both scope and popularity each year. What is the future of converged infrastructure? Is your business getting maximum results from converged infras Continue...

With the most recent release of the Cisco UCS ZenPack, Zenoss now provides support for standalone Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and Cisco UCS E-Series Blade Servers. Monitoring Cisco UCS Converged Infrastructure with Zenoss Zenoss Service Dynamics wa Continue...

In August, we announced that Zenoss was collaborating with Cisco on another product to make management and monitoring of Cisco UCS environments easier and more effective. Cisco UCS Performance Manager (UCSPM) officially launched in October, and feedbac Continue...

Converged infrastructures — preconfigured systems that include compute, network, and storage resources — present a faster way to get IT services up and running. Assimilating new converged infrastructure technologies into standard IT monitoring processe Continue...

Earlier this week, Zenoss released the findings from our second annual “The State of Converged Infrastructure” report. Primarily focused on North American and multi-national organizations, 183 IT professionals responded from dozens of industries and co Continue...

“How much does it cost?” is usually the first question following any suggestion you make, including when your team is considering Converged Infrastructure. “It needs to be affordable – that’s our first checkpoint,” says your exec. Without a price range Continue...

There’s a video attached to this article where I answer the question “What are the best practices for managing converged infrastructure?” My answer was right. And wrong. What’s wrong is that “Best practices” is a misnomer. What’s perfect for a commerci Continue...

When you squeeze a water balloon, it’s going to bulge out on the other side – unless/until it breaks. It can be the same with IT costs. 2 out of 3 x86 workloads will be virtualized this year, which makes cents (pun intended). Organizations picture them Continue...

Why is it when an IT organization tries to demonstrate value to its customers the first thing that comes to mind is talking about how much things cost? If your first conversation is about cost, then Nicholas Carr is right and IT really doesn’t matter. Continue...

Taking new products and customers into production has always felt like jumping onto a speeding train to me. It has to reach its destination on time and without a mishap. When I was a New Product Introduction engineer, and then later a Project Manager i Continue...