Availability 99.9% of the time…but not when I need it

March 12 2013 | By Deepak Kanwar | in Service Assurance
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Earlier this week, I found myself at my nearby Starbucks, enjoying a Tall Caramel Macchiato and perhaps, even more, the presence of free WiFi brought to me by AT&T. Now, I will have you know this is not typical for me. Usually, I am huddled up in my home office oblivious to my surroundings. Outside .. Read More »

Cisco and Zenoss Make Collaboration Look Good

March 5 2013 | By Jennifer Darrouzet | in Cisco
Cisco Zenoss Collaboration

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 »

For Sale: Zenoss Cloud Service Assurance. Contact your Cisco Sales Rep!

November 15 2012 | By Kent Erickson | in Cisco
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You may remember that at Cisco Live in June, Cisco announced “Service Assurance for Virtualized Multi-Service Data Centers” with Zenoss as the delivery partner. We’re announcing an expanded partnership with Cisco, with Zenoss Cloud Service Assurance now available directly from your Cisco sales team or partner. Zenoss CSA is the perfect tool when you’re adding Cisco Data .. Read More »

Top 3 Lessons Learned at the Red Hat Summit

July 5 2012 | By Kent Erickson | in Red Hat
Red Hat Summit 2012

If you don’t call them customers, you’re not doing your job! Last week, I introduced dozens of Red Hat Summit attendees to Zenoss Service Dynamics.  The headline above? A direct quote from an IT Director when I asked him whether the right word was customers, tenants, services, or applications. All our Red Hat conversations focused .. 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 »