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Zenny’s Cloud Links #43 – DevOps, Agile, SOPA, PaaS

By Travis Balinas January 27, 2012 Zenny's Weekly Cloud Links

Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, Big Data, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of January 23rd that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Cloud Computing Both More Agile and Less Expensive by Bernard Golden Are cloud services attractive because they are [...]

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Configuration Management Experiences with ZenPacks

By Chet Luther January 26, 2012 Chats with Chet

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 test ZenPacks. In this post I’ll elaborate on some of what went into building this system. There are a lot of choices in server deployment and configuration [...]

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The Platen Report, Episode 2: Why Cloud Can’t Work without Proper Instrumentation

By Travis Balinas January 24, 2012 Podcast

This week in the Platen Report, Floyd discusses why the cloud can’t work without proper instrumentation. There’s a lot of about the cloud these days, but the two topics that are stealing the spotlight right now are provisioning and instrumentation. Join Floyd as he dives into why legacy companies are no longer relevant in this day and age. Want to continue the conversation? Got idea for our next Podcast? Circle [...]

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How WordPress Mirrors DevOps

By Robyn Weisman January 24, 2012 DevOps

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 that’s why I first started using it back in 2004. But code whizzes and others apparently liked its solid, flexible underpinnings because pretty soon news agencies like The New York Times and CNN started hosting [...]

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SiliconAngle: DevOps/CloudOps – The Emerging IT Model 

By Travis Balinas January 23, 2012 Cloud Operations

Contributed Article from SiliconAngle by Alan Conley, CIO at Zenoss Both DevOps and Cloud are high on the hype curve right now and for good reason. DevOps is popular because it promotes agility by moving application responsibility closer to the business need. Cloud, whether public or private, also promotes agility by providing standard services through automation. At Zenoss, we’ve noticed that these are two sides of the same coin – success [...]

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Zenny’s Cloud Links #42 – Red Hat, DevOps, CloudOps, Storage Wars

By Travis Balinas January 20, 2012 Blogroll

Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, Big Data, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of January 16th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Red Hat RHEV Pressed Into Action by Joab Jackson Red Hat has released the third version of its [...]

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