When you work in technology it’s hard to explain to your non-technical friends and family members (especially when you work in open source) what you do. Conversations with your elder family members go something like this:
Me: I went to work for an open source software company.
Grandma: Oh that’s nice….what’s open source software?
Me: It’s software that’s [...]

Not long ago Redmonk analyst Michael Cote coined the term “Little Four“ to describe a group of open source IT management solution vendors. This up and coming group of software companies includes Zenoss, GroundWork, Hyperic, and Qlusters (openQRM) and they are seen as alternatives to traditional vendors BMC, CA, HP and IBM (the Big Four). [...]

If you are already familiar with open source monitoring, you might also be interested in open source software configuration management. Software Configuration Management (SCM) attempts to identify the configuration of software at discrete points in time and to systematically control changes to the configuration for the purpose of maintaining software integrity, traceability, and accountability throughout [...]

Chairman and CEO of Symantec, John Thompson was interviewed on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning. He is known to be an outspoken person, and he usually provides very interesting quotes. This morning he said:
“Software industry has been in a phase of consolidation for the past 3 to 4 years. The pace of [...]

Today’s news has been peppered with the outage of the Windows Genuine Advantage servers today. Now we aren’t endorsing DRM rights by any means but if you are running mission critical servers you need to look beyond availability monitoring. If the system is customer facing you probably will know by the inquiries from angry customers [...]