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 »

Remember when Twitter went out for 40 minutes last July? Twitter was so contrite that it posted the following statement: “The cause of today’s outage came from within our data centers. What was noteworthy about today’s outage was the coincidental failure of two parallel systems at nearly the same time…We are investing aggressively in our .. Read More »

Last week was my first Gartner Data Center conference. About 3000 people gathered to compare notes and learn from one another. Know this: you are not alone in feeling overwhelmed by the ever-growing pile of information-age data. Yesterday, I wrote part 1 of my top 10 takeaways from Gartner Data Center Conference. Today, I present to you .. Read More »

Last week was my first Gartner Data Center conference. About 3000 people gathered to compare notes and learn from one another. Know this: you are not alone in feeling overwhelmed by the ever-growing pile of information-age data. I’ll run through 10 top take-aways between today and tomorrow: 1) Who was there? Public sector techies outnumbered .. Read More »