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Zenoss Core 2.5 (Mac)

An award-winning open source IT monitoring product that effectively manages the configuration, health and performance of networks, servers and applications through a single, integrated software package. Configuration Management Database CMDB At the heart of Zenoss solutions resides the Zenoss Configuration Management Database CMDB. The CMDB houses a unified model...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Information Technology, CMDB, Monitoring, Zenoss, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Zenoss, rPath join on open source systems management appliances

Open source systems management ISV Zenoss will reveal this week a partnership with rPath that will enable it to deliver VMware appliances in the VMware marketplace. The Annapolis, Maryland software company released its first set of application, server and network management appliances â€" one a hardware appliance,...

Tags: Appliance, VMware Inc., Systems Management, Zenoss, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Is Zenoss ambition justified?

Is Zenoss ambition justified?NMS as a hardware appliance has been tried beforeIt will be interesting to see if this takes off, as having an NMS as an appliance aimed at small to medium size businesses has been tried before. Oculan (the company that started the OpenNMS project that I help...

Tags: Network administration, NETWORKING, Zenoss, Small-Company

Discussion threads 2007-06-12

Is Zenoss ambition justified?

Zenoss has big ambitions for Zenoss Core 2.0, its open source management product.The freely-available new version now available in a hardware version as well, will lower the cost of management by over 80% compared to high-end tools from 'The Big Four' of HP, IBM, CA and, BMC.Sure, it costs 80%...

Tags: support, Network Administration, management, Infrastructure, Hardware, General, Enterprise Policy, business models, Applications

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Free Zenoss does 90ò0of what big system monitors do

Free Zenoss does 90ò0of what big system monitors doJust to be clear...Thanks, Dana, for the discussion today and the mention. Just to be clear, our position is not that we "do 90% of what the Big 4 do" but rather: (1) we provide strong coverage of what organizations are *really*...

Tags: Network administration, OPEN SOURCE, NETWORKING, Zenoss, OpenNMS

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Free Zenoss does 90% of what big system monitors do

Thats what Zenoss CEO Bill Karpovich claimed when we talked earlier today."Our focus right now is monitoring. Thats the core of IT operations management. Our goal is a complete monitoring solution – we do most of it now. We have multi-billion dollar companies using this, and commercial clients who are...

Tags: Development, Infrastructure, Network Administration, General

Blog posts 2007-02-16

XML closing the community-code gap

It's always a challenge to narrow the time it takes for customer input to make it into a product.Zenoss does not entirely solve that problem with its latest release. But it goes a long way toward solving it with its community site and XML support.The latest version of their IT...

Tags: Bill Karpovich, XML

Blog posts 2006-09-15

When will open source compete with Tivoli?

Some of the fattest margins in the proprietary software world exist in systems management.IBM Tivoli, H-P, CA and BMC have no full open source competitors. Yes, there are many projects out there which can do part of what these suites can do, but if a medium-sized company needs a full...

Tags: systems management, open source

Blog posts 2006-07-10

Additional Resources

News to know: Nokia; Salesforce; Mozilla; Google; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and open source face-off...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Flaw, Palm Inc., Mozilla Corp., Keyboards, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Frugal Friday: DTV Transition, Apple WWDC, Oracle/Sun, Wind River, Zenoss

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the Digital TV transition, Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, Oracle/Sun/OpenSolaris, Intel's Wind River acquisition, and talk with Mark Hinkle, Community Manager for Zenoss. Click Here to Listen to the Podcast. by Jason Perlow

Tags: Wind River Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Bucking the trend, handful of open source players attract VC funding

Venture capital spending is down eight percent nationally yet a number of open source companies have scored big funding wins as of late. Talend, which develops open source data integration software including Open Studio, this week announced it secured $12 million from investors Balderton Capital,...

Tags: Software, Venture Capital, Open Source, Finance, Financing Startups, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Bringing the FOSS tribe together: The future of community shows

Given the economy's impact on tech shows, I have to wonder what the future holds for the various Linux shows and fests around the globe. Talking to Ilan Rabinovitch of the Southern California Linux Expo SCaLE, the future still looks bright -- maybe brighter than the future for the more...

Tags: Team, Community, Event, F/OSS, SCaLE, Q, SCaLE Attendee, Team Management, Linux, Open Source, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Zivios open source ID management suite takes on Novell's ZenWorks

One open source startup is taking on Novell in the identity management space. Zivios dubbs itself as an enterprise management company but is not taking on the likes of Zenoss and Hyperic -- at least for now. Network monitoring and workflow features are planned but they...

Tags: Novell Inc., Novell ZENworks, Open Source, OpenLDAP, Identity Management, Zivios, LDAP, Authentication/Encryption, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-17

openQRM goes solo after Qlusters dumps open source strategy

openQRM is looking for a new sponsor following its separation from Qlusters earlier this month. On April 9, on the release of openQRM 3.5, Qlusters announced it decided to donate the open source data center management provisioning and monitoring project to the community on SourceForge. The project, which will continue to be...

Tags: Strategy, openQRM, Qlusters, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC

Six hot open source startups and projects got notice at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them are in software categories deemed most vulnerable to open source disruption, including collaboration and conferencing, social publishing, sales automation, application deployment and developer tools....

Tags: OSBC, MindTouch, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Open source business model reaching tipping point

Over the last several years open source has grown in stature and maturity, becoming more worthy in the eyes of corporate buyers and investors. Everyone could point to Red Hat, which dominates the Linux operating system space, as the poster child for open source but few other "pure" open source...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., F/OSS, Open Source, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Can Sourceforge marketplace open the cash drawer?

Sourceforge has always been more about traffic than money. No more. Sourceforge.Net Marketplace registers those with skills, organizes the skills into categories (even non-programming categories) and tries to make money from the deals which result. The system launches with over 600 listings...

Tags: SourceForge, Sourceforge.Net Marketplace, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Tools & Techniques, B2B, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-07

The open source start-up dream still lives at Nagios

The open source start-up dream still lives at NagiosDana, what is the best way to comercialize an open source project? I thinkthe answer will be in the size and type of project.But, in many cases, we have a non-profit group running the project, and it is commercialized by other for-profit...

Tags: Nagios, MySQL, open source, open-source start-up

Discussion threads 2007-11-18

Hyperic joins forces with JasperSoft to deliver reporting tool to HQ 3.1

Hyperic has joined forces with another open source software leader to deliver enterprise reporting tools to its new HQ 3.1 platform, sources say. The San Francisco company, which released its core HQ 3.1 upgrade in August, is widely expected to begin shipping an enterprise version of...

Tags: JasperSoft, Reporting Tool, Platform, Monitoring, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Open source systems management challenging incumbents

The 451 Group has issued a research report maintaining that BMC, HP, IBM and CA are "ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. " Open source vendors covered in the 60-page report titled "Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management" and written by...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-07-31