I must make a confession. I’ve written posts for the Zenoss blog for about two years, but up until recently, I didn’t really understand what ZenPacks were. I knew they had something to do with open source and something to do with customization, but if you had asked me anything beyond that, I would have been .. Read More »

Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from across the web about the transformations taking place in IT. Here are some great articles they selected from 4/8/2013 that are worth taking a look at. Scrum – An Agile Project’s Best Friend by David Shirey A Review of DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practice  by .. Read More »

Below you’ll find the last of the interviews I conducted while exploring the stacks behind the apps of SXSW Interactive. I hope you’ve discovered some apps you can use professionally, and some apps you’ll enjoy personally. I also hope you’ll file away what you’ve observed about the technology choices of some industry innovators.  And on .. Read More »

Less than 5 minutes into the first morning of my SXSW Interactive journey, discovering apps and their underlying stacks, I was already engaged in a serendipitous but hearty conversation about enterprise network security – while southbound on the MetroRail. Mike Sconzo of VisibleRisk was explaining how his team offers a Virtual Intelligence Operations Center, essentially .. Read More »

Here’s the gist: I went to SXSW Interactive (SXSWi) to discover the latest apps being developed, and investigate their underlying technologies. As I described in the first post of this series, what’s in this for you is: You stumble upon a few apps you may enjoy at work and at play, You meet real folks .. Read More »

At SXSW Interactive, you’re elbow-to-elbow with folks that the Wall Street Journal calls “some of the most social, tech-savvy and innovative early adopters you’ll meet.” But since many Zenoss Blog readers couldn’t make it to the conference this year, I set out to bring some juicy bits of the event to you. What I went .. Read More »

Every Friday, Zenoss highlights some of the best posts from across the web about the transformations taking place in IT. Here are some great articles they selected from 3/25/2013 that are worth taking a look at. DevOps Booms In The Enterprise by Matt Asay | ReadWrite Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending by Cliff Saran .. Read More »