Zenoss Sponsors Government Open Source Conference.Company to Demonstrate Open Source IT management products at Federal Government Conference AUSTIN, Texas -- Zenoss Inc., a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT systems and network management products, today announced it is a silver sponsor of the Government Open Source Conference in Washington, DC (GOSCON-DC) taking place on Thursday, November 5 at the Ronald Reagan Building The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center and International Trade Center. This day-long program focuses on how federal agencies are using open technology in support of their agency mission objectives while reducing costs and creating a secure information technology environment. GOSCON GOSCON Government Open Source Conference DC is designed to meet the needs of senior IT executives of federal agencies and regional, state and local government. Management, Mission and Technology tracks feature agency and industry presentations. Government agency leaders and their key technology personnel as well as legal, procurement, planning, public information and social media staff should attend. "Hundreds of government agencies both here and abroad rely on Zenoss Enterprise for its high functionality and low cost," stated Tim Galligan, vice president of worldwide sales for Zenoss. "We are proud to sponsor this event and further the conversation regarding open source in federal government." Zenoss has more than doubled its business across civilian and DoD markets since the company sponsored and exhibited at last year's GOSCON. During this year's show, Zenoss will demonstrate virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. management capabilities and preview the upcoming edition of Zenoss Enterprise 2.5, which will be released later this month. Covering the complete virtual and physical infrastructure stacks, Zenoss Enterprise delivers vital IT management functionality including asset inventory and performance monitoring, event and fault management, and virtualization management. To better serve government customers, Zenoss has created a dedicated engagement team and is increasing certification efforts. Currently, Zenoss is engaged with a Common Criteria (Common Criteria for Information Technology Security) An international standard process for defining security objectives and for evaluating compliance with those objectives. The Common Criteria have largely replaced the Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the Canadian Lab, seeking EAL EAL English as an Additional Language EAL Evaluation Assurance Level EAL Eastern Airlines EAL Emergency Action Level EAL Environmental Analysis Laboratory EAL Evidence Analysis Library (American Dietetic Association) Level 2. Now in its fifth year, highlights from GOSCON 2009 program will include: * Breakfast Keynote: David M. Wennergren, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management and Technology/Deputy Chief Information Officer U.S. Department of Defense * Luncheon Keynote: David G. Boyd, Ph.D., Director, Command, Control and Interoperability Division Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States The full conference schedule and additional speakers can be found on the conference web site at www.goscon.org. About Zenoss Inc. Zenoss is a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT systems and network management products. Zenoss Enterprise is a single model-based product that enables organizations to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based Refers to operations that take place within the network infrastructure. The phrase generally refers to network servers performing some process in contrast to running a similar application in the user's computer. See cloud. 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 Tyco Electronics was the largest unit of Tyco International Ltd., and the world's leading supplier of passive electronic components. On June 29, 2007 Tyco Electronics became a wholly independent publicly-traded company, along with Covidien, from the breakup of the Tyco conglomerate , Carlson, Motorola and Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (IPA: /'dɔɪ.tʃə/[1]) (ISIN: DE0005140008, NYSE: DB) (English: German Bank . To learn more about Zenoss' award-winning IT operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. software, visit www.zenoss.com. |
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