2010 Trends in Open Source Systems Management

August 17, 2010

Zenoss wanted to examine the system management trend among IT professionals in attendance at the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference so they conducted a system management survey in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. They were especially interested in the utilization of open source software to handle the IT management needs of large groups. Survey results were compared to data obtained from the Zenoss user community. Out of 974 survey participants over 98% of them acknowledged they use open source in their enterprises. More than 66% of the Zenoss community survey participants preferred to use open source if available. Quality of support was the main reason enterprises liked open source. In addition 50% of those surveyed were using cloud technology. Read the Zenoss blog “2010 Trends in open Source Systems Management” to find a few of the results obtained as well as view the complete results of the 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey.

Our view is that open source is going to put search and content processing into a martini shaker and deliver James Bond’s potent cocktail to some unwitting tipplers.

April Holmes, August 17, 2010

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, News, Online (general), Open source, Publishing, Technology, Text processing

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.