An Honest Discussion about Why Repairing IT Services Takes So Long

February 11 2013 | By Robyn Weisman | in IT Operations
Too Many Monitoring Tools

Last week, I attended a Zenoss webinar called Using Too Many Tools Hinders IT Operations featuring Jean-Pierre Garbani a guest speaker from Forrester Consulting. Garbani presented a Zenoss-commissioned report titled Monitoring IT Business Services: How Too Many Tools Can Impact Your IT Operation Efficiency, where the consulting firm interviewed 161 IT operations managers/decision makers, centered .. Read More »

How to Unify IT Monitoring – Organizing the Crumbling IT Silos [Roundtable]

November 19 2012 | By Travis Balinas | in IT Operations
Zenoss-header-Nov-2012

In today’s business environment, companies don’t have 24 hours to solve IT problems; they barely have 24 minutes. Legacy solutions tailored to static infrastructure are failing within today’s dynamic and programmable data center. On the plus side, emerging devops teams and continuous delivery solutions enable companies to be more nimble, while hybrid cloud options and .. Read More »

Beyond SNMP: Monitoring Your Cisco Converged Infrastructure

July 3 2012 | By Floyd Strimling | in Cisco
Cisco Nexus 7000

(Update: Click here to view the recorded webinar) The single greatest threat to the cloud era remains complexity and the ability for IT operations to monitor the modern data center. Subsequently, IT operations must strike a balance between monitoring yesterday’s legacy infrastructure and applications and today’s converged offerings. How can this be done? Thankfully, today’s .. Read More »

Top 5 Lessons Learned at Cisco Live, 2012

June 19 2012 | By Kent Erickson | in Automation
Cisco Live 2012, Zenoss Booth

We just completed a very busy week on the exhibitor floor at Cisco Live, demonstrating Zenoss Cloud Service Assurance and talking with attendees. People flocked to our booth to get their picture taken with Zenny the Zebra, but they stayed to talk and share and learn about the needs of their own organizations. I’ve distilled .. Read More »

Zenny’s Cloud Links #60 – Gartner Trends, Intel & Open Source, DevOps

June 8 2012 | By Travis Balinas | in Amazon
Zenoss at Cisco Live 2012, #clus

Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of June 4th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Is OpenStack the new .. Read More »

Cisco Live 2012, Zenoss, and a Zebra

June 7 2012 | By Travis Balinas | in Automation
Zenoss Space Invaders

It’s hard to believe it, but it’s almost time for Cisco Live, 2012! We’ve got a lot planned for next week in San Diego and we wanted to make sure that if you’re going to be there, you simply must stop by the booth. We’ve even got something special for you if you’re not going to .. Read More »