by Angela Guess

According to a recent press release, “Zenoss Inc., the leader in hybrid IT monitoring and analytics software, today announced the latest release of its Zenoss Service Dynamics platform, version 5.2. The company is experiencing tremendous growth in customer segments with large and highly distributed infrastructures, and this release offers key advancements in extensibility, performance and security for these immense environments. The Zenoss hybrid IT monitoring platform was designed to be extensible through ZenPacks – plug-ins that use standard APIs and protocols to collect configuration information and monitor systems and applications without agents. The platform was also architected with the most scalable modern technologies, including Docker, Elasticsearch, and a big data Apache HBase back end, offering high-fidelity monitoring, ultimate scalability and reduced management overhead. Zenoss enables customers to tightly integrate IT development, deployment and operations to transform businesses that have massive IT environments.”

The release continues, “Legacy approaches to IT monitoring are focused on monitoring traditional systems. The digital transformation that is occurring across large enterprises and service providers requires a new approach that is service- and application-centric. Now, these organizations are empowered to drive business through new levels of IT service reliability capabilities at the largest scale, with new Zenoss enhancements that include: Extensibility – Achieve the fastest mean time to resolution (MTTR) by immediately isolating issue root causes through new Zenoss extensions (ZenPacks). These extensions allow Zenoss to create service impact models that manage a customer’s IT infrastructure as a portfolio of services… Performance – Scale large, highly distributed deployments with high-performance local and remote collector pools. Eliminate performance issues that can be caused by intermittent WAN latency with automated handling of data collection… Security – Secure communications with encryption between master and delegate resources with public/private key authentication and access.”

Read more at Business Wire.

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