Today at Cloud Expo,
Zenoss, a
leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and
cloud-based IT infrastructures, announced the availability of a free and
open source CloudStack ZenPack. The new ZenPack extends Zenoss Core to
manage the open source Citrix CloudStack, providing CloudStack users
with a unified view of their cloud infrastructure.
Citrix CloudStack
is a production-ready, free and open source cloud infrastructure
platform that helps providers of all types deploy and manage simple,
cost-effective cloud services that are scalable, secure and open by
design. Zenoss' ZenPack provides an additional level of management by
tracking capacity and usage trends for the entire cloud, as well as
alerting to changes in both physical and virtual infrastructure.
Bringing this level of capacity monitoring for CloudStack into Zenoss'
unified status, performance and event monitoring of existing
infrastructure allows CloudStack to be more seamlessly integrated into
an organization’s existing operations.
“Interest in building clouds, public or private, is on the rise. To
ensure a successful cloud deployment IT must have unified visibility and
real-time awareness of their entire cloud infrastructure,” said Bill
Karpovich, co-founder and CEO of Zenoss. “Zenoss’ work with Citrix is a
natural fit for customers pursuing the full management and operation of
robust private, public or hybrid clouds.”
Citrix CloudStack provides customers with the fastest path to the
cloud by providing the most advanced software technologies for building
highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. More than
60 large-scale production clouds have been deployed using the open
source CloudStack, including GoDaddy, GreenQloud, KT, Nokia, Tata
Communications and Zynga.
"Citrix wants customers to have a choice as they build cloud
infrastructures while ensuring that their cloud solution easily
integrates with other cloud technologies," said Peder Ulander, Vice
President of Product Marketing, Cloud Platform Group at Citrix Systems.
"Zenoss’ support of Citrix CloudStack will enable our joint customers to
have complete control and visibility into their cloud-based IT
infrastructure."
Zenoss will be demonstrating the new CloudStack ZenPack at the Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, November 7-10 in booth No. 816.