Systems Management Consolidation Trend Continues
Looks like Symantec is putting more than rebranded Vertias behind their Data Center Foundation with it’s just-announced acquisition of Altiris. Chasing the trend that CIOs want fewer vendors. But will the market buy Symantec’s spin that systems management is but a subset of security? How will Altiris customers feel [...]

Paula Musich of eWeek wrote a good article on Friday titled,”Startup Zenoss Takes on Enterprise Giants“. Everyone loves a good David and Goliath story. Even though Zenoss Core offers many of the same monitoring functions that you might get from BMC PATROL or Tivoli Monitoring there’s another angle that shouldn’t be overlooked. Zenoss brings enterprise-class [...]

Anyone who’s been around the tech industry for any length of time knows what these three words, and their acronym, NIH, mean. To summarize, NIH refers to the organizational malady one observes in many project leaders and others in positions of control who frown upon, and frequently seek to crush, all ideas, projects and [...]

Recently Cote an analyst from Redmonk used the term the “Little 4″ in his blog to describe a new bread of systems management vendors. This group includes Zenoss as well as Groundwork, Hyperic, and Qlusters. The term is used to differentiate our group from the old guard of systems management vendors often [...]

I was walking through the Zenoss office today, and noticed we had a few plants. One orchid which is impossible to kill and a few others that looked pretty bad. In fancy offices of established companies I guess they have services that come in and water. Here’s what you get when you are a technology [...]