I read this article tonight from ArsGeek on using Cacti, SmokePing, and Zenoss Core running on Ubuntu to create a complete open source network management stack. It’s good for us to see because as much as I wish that Zenoss Core met their needs to accomplish all of this on it’s own, but it’s [...]

At Zenoss, we are very fortunate to have a group of very passionate community members.  They are very vocal and they do not hesitate to praise as well as criticize us.  Our forum provides a good medium to capture general requests and rants, but we felt that we also needed to capture great anecdotes and [...]

Yeah that’s a mouthful but it’s an interesting article penned by Zenoss’ own Murat Aksu. It’s also a pretty good summary of how open source software is become a leveler that allow more organizations to take advantage of the benefits of enterprise-grade software without the Fortune 1000 price. The reason we can do this is [...]

I made it home from the Ohio LinuxFest last night and it was a bunch of fun but a long, long weekend. First, we started by having a Road Rally to the show. It was a very eclectic group of guys from Raleigh, NC who loaded up the van with ham radio equipment, power inverters, [...]

Open source software business is all rage these days.  It started with RedHat’s acquisition of JBoss and it was followed by SourceFire’s IPO.  Then there was the XenSource acquisition by Citrix, and most recently Yahoo’s agreement to buy Zimbra.  Though on the surface, these acquisitions may seem to be limiting open source software choices to [...]