Zenoss Newsletter - January 2008

It’s 2008 and we are very proud of the success we had last year and grateful for the support of the Zenoss community. The highlights include:

• Two Major Releases for Zenoss Core and Enterprise
• 15,000+ Forum Posts
• 500,000 Downloads from SourceForge.net
• $11M in New Investment
• Awards - Network World Clear Choice, EOSM Reader’s Choice, SourceForge Project of the Month, and more…

This year we hope will be even better with a number of new changes.

• Zenoss Core moves to 30 Day release cycles
• Growing Zenoss Team, We are hiring!
• Broader platform support
• More ZenPacks
• Many more happy Zenoss users!

It’s very humbling to see what we accomplished with your help. The Zenoss team would like to thank you and we appreciate your continued support.

Message From Zenoss CEO

Zenoss CEO and co-founder Bill Karpovich shared his thoughts on our progress this month on the Zenoss blog.

Get some perspective on Zenoss Milestones from Bill.

BarCampESM

Zenoss participated in and sponsored the first ever Enterprise Systems Management BarCamp in Austin on January 18th. Zenoss discussed how we could improve systems management with other industry leaders including Alterpoint, BMC, and IBM. We also got to speak with users to better understand what you need to more effectively monitor your network. Our CTO Erik Dahl also led a discussion on open agents. See what others had to say about BarCampESM:

• People Over Process:Open Agents?
• Doug McClure: Where’s the Beef?
• O’Reilly’s Andy Oram: ESM: Design Patterns and Agents
• Socialized Software: BarCampESM
• John M. Willis: Monitoring, the good, the bad, and the ugly

Stopped Using Zenoss?

If you have stopped using Zenoss (or never got it working), we want to hear your story so that we can get better. Fill out this brief survey by February 15th and you will be entered to win an iPod Touch. Why Aren’t You using Zenoss? For those of you who do use Zenoss we will enter you in the drawing too. Just tell us what you love about using Zenoss.

Zenoss Events

Zenoss will be exhibiting at the Southern California Linux Expo on February 8-10. Stop by the Zenoss booth for a demo and some cool Zenoss branded swag.

Upcoming Events

• Zenoss Training: Febuary 26-27, Annapolis, MD
• PyCon:March 14-16, Chicago IL
• Zenoss Training: March 26-27, Annapolis, MD
• OSBC: March 25-26, San Francisco, CA

In The News

See what people are saying about Zenoss:

• ZDNet: Open source Business Model Reaching Tipping Point
• BBJ: Annapolis firm nabs $11M in VC
• CNET: Open-source funding day: Greenplum, Alfresco, Zenoss
• BLUG: Nagios+Cacti, or just Zenoss?
• BadgerFiles: Zenoss on Mac OS X

Risk-Free Enterprise Trial
Do you have a large-scale or distributed list? Need fine grained access control? Need instrumentation for Microsoft products and other enterprise applications? Sample the benefits of the Zenoss Enterprise with a free, 30-day no-risk trial.

Vote For Zenoss

Linux Journal is running their 2008 Annual Readers Survey. We are encouraging our users to participate in the survey and tell Linux Journal why Zenoss should be considered for the Product of the Year. (Write in Zenoss Core for Question #36)

Careers at Zenoss

Are you an exceptional team-oriented individual ready for a challenge? Do you love open source software? We are staffing for the following technical, sales, and marketing positions:

Channel Sales Manager, Client Support and Services Engineers, Core Developer, Inside Sales Associate, Senior Product Manager, Vice President of Engineering, Vice President of Marketing

Visit the Zenoss Career Center for more information.

Thank you for your support and interest in Zenoss.

Best Regards,

Mark R. Hinkle
Vice President, Community
Zenoss Inc.

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