Zenny’s Cloud Links #56 – Citrix Synergy, Open Source Clouds, Big Data

Thumbnail image for Zenny’s Cloud Links #56 – Citrix Synergy, Open Source Clouds, Big Data By Travis Balinas May 11, 2012 Amazon

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 May 7th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend!     Study: Cloud Computing Cuts $5.5 Billion Annually from Federal Budget by Patrick Burke The federal government saved nearly [...]

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Lessons from Citrix Synergy: OpenStack vs. CloudStack

Thumbnail image for Lessons from Citrix Synergy: OpenStack vs. CloudStack By Floyd Strimling May 11, 2012 Cloud

This past week, I had the privilege of attending Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco, California.  My intent was to explore Citrix’s strategy of mobile and cloud-based solutions while presenting the case for cloud monitoring at CloudStack’s Build a Cloud Day.  This was my first Synergy, and while I had relatively low expectations, I was excited by Citrix’s vision, solutions, and roadmap. Synergy cleared-up one of my biggest questions for [...]

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Clear Skys with Open Clouds: Enhancing Monitoring for Citrix CloudStack

Thumbnail image for Clear Skys with Open Clouds: Enhancing Monitoring for Citrix CloudStack By Travis Balinas May 9, 2012 Cloud

      Zenoss is at Citrix Synergy this week in San Francisco. In conjunction with our presence at the event and session during the Build a Cloud Workshop, we’re happy to announce an update to our CloudStack monitoring ZenPack. Available immediately on GitHub as part of our Open Source ZenPack portfolio, these enhancements will extend monitoring and correlation capabilities to VMs running on CloudStack for a more unified view [...]

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The Inevitable IT Operations Data Warehouse

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Having recently perused a few trade shows and viewed lots of industry resources, there’s a lot of discussion around analytics. Looking at some IT Operations system demos, there are quite a few slick interfaces with some eye-popping reports. Really, it would seem from viewing these that an IT Ops professional could produce advanced reports for just about anything they’d need. Yet many of these systems store all of this data, and do [...]

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Zenny’s Cloud Links #55 – DevOps Culture, IaaS, OpenShift, SugarCRM

Thumbnail image for Zenny’s Cloud Links #55 – DevOps Culture, IaaS, OpenShift, SugarCRM By Travis Balinas May 4, 2012 Amazon

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 30th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Cloud & the evolution of the enterprise architect by James Urquhart Enterprise architects have been a staple of corporate IT [...]

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Build a Cloud Day at Citrix Synergy 2012

Thumbnail image for Build a Cloud Day at Citrix Synergy 2012 By Travis Balinas May 3, 2012 Cloud

This week, Zenoss will be sponsoring Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco. Not only that, we’re leading a session at the free How to Build a Cloud Day. If you’re going to be at the show or in town, it’s a great opportunity to learn from industry experts. Join us for free day of learning, best practices and industry insights into building elastic, scalable and profitable open source clouds. The Build a Cloud [...]

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Monitoring in the Cloud: Drip or Percolate?

Thumbnail image for Monitoring in the Cloud: Drip or Percolate? By Robyn Weisman May 3, 2012 Cloud

My grandmother passed away over a month ago, and out of nostalgia (and also because my automatic drip coffeemaker made weak, lukewarm coffee, and I cracked yet another French press), I bought a stainless steel Farberware percolator. Grandma liked her coffee “H-O-T, hot,” and so do I. For my taste, my first brewed pot was excellent. I followed Grandma’s rule of keeping the stovetop percolator on low-to-medium heat and eyeballing [...]

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