Open Source Zenoss Core Project Delivers Cloud Monitoring and Community-Led Systems Management Innovations

AUSTIN, Texas--(Business Wire)--
Zenoss Inc., a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT systems
and network management products, today announced the general availability of
Zenoss Core version 2.5 under the GNU General Public License (V2). This latest
version of the open source monitoring and systems management project includes
several new features and innovations targeted at managing cloud-based
infrastructures as well as many new community-developed extensions to broaden
Zenoss' monitoring capabilities.

The Zenoss 2.5 release can be downloaded from the Zenoss Community website.

What's New in Zenoss Core 2.5

* Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Monitoring - New Amazon EC2 monitoring
provides dynamic snapshots of both the individual and collective performance of
the instances within an account. In addition, Zenoss Core now includes the
ability to immediately track performance without user intervention and to drill
deep on performance issues with "inside-the-instance" monitoring.
* Over 40+ New Community Developed Innovations - During the latest release cycle
the community has significantly extended Zenoss Core in the form of monitoring
extensions called ZenPacks.

* Egor Puzanov's ODBC Data Source ZenPack provides a new data source for
monitoring databases via ODBC. This ZenPack is the basis for the MS SQL ODBC
Database Monitor, MySQL ODBC Database Monitor and PostgreSQL ODBC Database
Monitor ZenPacks.
* David Nicklay's Community NetApp ZenPack merges three existing ZenPacks into a
single source, providing comprehensive monitoring for NetApp devices.
* Eric Edgar provides new monitoring threshold functions via Point, Range and
Predictive Threshold ZenPacks.

* Event Console - With a new look and feel, the Event Console makes it even
easier for IT operators to complete their most common tasks. The primary design
features were based on a set of usability interviews and include streamlined
navigation, inline event filtering and a preview pane
* Community Submitted Bugs, Feature Requests and Testing - The Zenoss Community
provided significant testing and feedback during this release cycle submitting
over 65 bugs and feature requests that have been addressed in version 2.5.

Supporting Quotes

* "People need to think differently about cloud computing. It's not separate to
existing enterprise management - it's in addition to it. Having a holistic view
of the cloud and the traditional infrastructure is critical. It's also vital
that tools be flexible enough to integrate and develop alongside cloud computing
whether publicly as in the case of EC2 or privately developed cloud tools.
Zenoss is on the right path and positioned to be a leader by having an open
source development methodology that allows them to easily collaborate with all
technology providers and a strong commercial product that addresses the complete
IT management landscape." - John M. Willis, Systems Management and Cloud Expert
and host of the IT Management Podcast and the Cloud Cafe Podcast
* "The Zenoss Core 2.5 release shows an awareness of the value in supporting and
enhancing the free, community version of open source software that also serves
as the basis for enterprise subscription software. By adding Amazon EC2
monitoring, new event console and other features and functionality to its
community version, Zenoss is growing and extending the software's capability and
the community's value, as evidenced by the growing number of ZenPacks being
developed." - Jay Lyman, Enterprise Software Analyst, The 451 Group
* "Zenoss currently plays a key role as part of our monitoring toolset. It helps
us provide the high level of monitoring which our clients expect. We look
forward to seeing the features and improvements which Zenoss Core 2.5 has to
offer." - Ryan Matte, Nova Networks

Zenoss Cloud Monitoring Contest

With an increasing number of users needing to monitor cloud infrastructure,
Zenoss is partnering with the open source community to deliver instrumentation
to monitor popular cloud services. Zenoss has announced a contest for Zenoss
Community users to help expand the Zenoss Core platform to monitor other cloud
infrastructure. Zenoss is offering numerous prizes for submissions and will be
releasing all entries for free under the GPLv2.

http://community.zenoss.org/blogs/zenossblog/2009/10/26/zenoss-in-the-clouds-zenpack-contest

Community Partner Program

During this release cycle, Zenoss has also enabled the Zenoss Community to
provide support, services, custom development and training to other members
through the Zenoss Community Partner program. Zenoss Community members now have
a marketplace for exchanging goods and services that augment the Zenoss Core
project and its use.

About Zenoss Core

Zenoss Core is the award winning open source network monitoring and systems
management project that delivers the functionality to effectively manage the
configuration, health and performance of networks, servers and applications
through a single, integrated software package. The Zenoss Community is comprised
of over 75,000 active members who are instrumental in evolving the solution as
well as providing timely support and help for all questions. One of the most
active projects on SourceForge, Zenoss Core has been downloaded over one million
times and is being used by companies in over 180 countries. For more information
on Zenoss Core, visit http://community.zenoss.org.

About Zenoss Inc.

Zenoss is a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT enterprise
management products. Zenoss Enterprise is a single model-based product that
enables organizations to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based
infrastructure with unprecedented power, agility and value. Leveraging a
commercial open source model, Zenoss products monitor over one million network
and server devices daily and are used in over 25,000 organizations in 180
countries around the world. Commercial customers include leading companies such
as Rackspace, VMware, WebMD, LinkedIn, Tyco Electronics, Carlson, Motorola and
Deutsche Bank. To learn more about Zenoss' award-winning IT operations
management software, visit http://www.zenoss.com.

For Zenoss Inc.
Cindy Akus, 919-414-6082
cakus@crossroadspr.com

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