You read the headline correctly. Every Thursday throughout the month of March, our Principal Engineer and 6 year veteran, Chet Luther, will be hosting a 4-part webcast on developing ZenPacks. For those of you who know Chet, you already know how spectacular this webcast will be. For those of you who don’t, I cannot stress .. Read More »

I was awoken this morning with a flood of emails regarding the following statement written by Alan Shimel and published in Computerworld Australia. With recent negative reports from Gartner and Zenoss, it seems “dump on open source Cloud” season is open.  For those quick to point the finger at some of these technologies that may .. Read More »

Last week, we released the results of our State of the Open Source Cloud survey (complete with infographic) and needless to say, the interest level in these results was impressive. After looking over the results, it was clear we needed to dive further. What better way is there to discuss these results than with the current, .. Read More »

There is no doubt that open source clouds are on the minds of both open source communities/projects and commercial entities. With 3/4 of 2012 behind us, we thought it was time to get some feedback on The State of the Open Source Cloud. We polled more than 100,000 community members to determine the prevailing sentiments concerning .. Read More »

A few weeks ago, our own Floyd Strimling decreed August 2012 as Red Hat Month here at Zenoss. Why? Because in short, the company been kicking ass! Back in March, Red Hat became the first open source company to earn $1 billion in revenues. Then the company followed this announcement by joining OpenStack in April, .. Read More »

Ice Cream Sandwiches really are the perfect dessert. You have ice cream smack dab in the middle of two chocolate cakes. Even better are the ice cream sandwiches that use chocolate chip cookies. Those are crazy delicious! What more can you ask for? Personally, I think a dash of Zenoss is certainly in order. Sadly, .. Read More »

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 25th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Leverage Your IT Stars .. Read More »