Until recently, if you weren’t in IT (or even in the division of IT that handled server and storage provisioning) and you needed machines to launch an app or analyze some data, you typically had to wait days, if not weeks, for that to happen. And even when you did get it, you had no .. Read More »

We live in a world where management looks to us to launch applications more often, more quickly, at less cost. If you want to go ‘under the hood’ and see with your own eyes as a peer makes this happen with a private cloud, read on – you can do so this month. Gone are .. 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 »

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 »

This past week, I had the privilege of attending Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco, California.  My intent was to explore Citrix’s strategy of mobile and cloud-based solutions while presenting the case for cloud monitoring at CloudStack’s Build a Cloud Day.  This was my first Synergy, and while I had relatively low expectations, I was .. Read More »