Zenoss Inc., the leading provider of unified monitoring and analytics solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructure and applications, today announced it will welcome an international gathering of customers, partners, industry leaders, and analysts to its inaugural user conference May 4-7, at the W Hotel in Austin, Texas.

Participants from Zenoss' worldwide customer base will be gathering at GalaxZ 15 to share insights and learn innovative and advanced approaches to unified monitoring and analytics and how the right solution can support cloud, physical, and virtual infrastructures from a single pane of glass.

With Zenoss, organizations are able to ensure service availability and reduce IT costs throughout the entire IT infrastructure. Zenoss Core, the open source offering from Zenoss, along with Zenoss Service Dynamics, Zenoss' commercial enterprise solution, are the most powerful pair of commercial and open source IT monitoring solutions in the industry.

"With more than 35,000 users across thousands of unique organizations, there is profound institutional knowledge of unified monitoring. Tapping this intelligence and sharing it with each other is the primary objective of GalaxZ 15," said Greg Stock, president and CEO of Zenoss. "We are honored and extremely excited to provide this forum for our customers, partners, industry experts, media, and friends."

The agenda will address the challenges of handling new technologies and applications along with servers, storage, networking, and virtualization and how they combine with legacy systems. Special guests and representatives from the analyst community, industry luminaries, and infrastructure experts will be featured at the conference. The agenda will include keynotes, educational workshops, case studies, and topical breakout sessions as well as a hands-on product and services showcase.

30+ sessions will be available to attendees, including:

• Keynotes from IT operations thought leaders and analysts
• User success stories and case studies from some of Zenoss' biggest customers
• Small, highly collaborative breakout sessions with IT operations thought leaders and analysts
• Technical education tracks with a special focus on enhancing technical skills in unified monitoring, event management, service analytics, virtualization and cloud monitoring, and converged infrastructure monitoring
• Peer networking happy hours
• Hands-on demonstrations, workshops, and technical training labs
• 1:1 sessions with Zenoss support staff, engineers, account managers, and executives

Registration is now open! Visit http://www.zenoss.com/galaxz/ for registration details.