Zenoss conducted surveys on systems management in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 to determine systems management usage trends among IT professionals who attended the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference. These results have been compared against data gathered from the Zenoss user community.
Here are some of the findings and observations of the survey for 2010:
- More than 50% of all respondents managed more than 100 devices and defined their roles as Network Operations, Server Management or Engineering.
- More than 98% of the survey respondents indicated usage of open source in their enterprises
- More than 66% of Zenoss Community respondents indicate that they prefer to use open source software whenever possible.
- The compelling factors for using open source according to the Zenoss Community were Flexibility (73.9%) followed by Cost Savings (71%) while 57.1 % of USENIX LISA respondents indicated Lower Cost followed by Flexibility (52.4%) as the most popular drivers for open source usage.
- 39.8% of Zenoss Community members indicate the economy as a driver for increased usage of open source while 28.5% of USENIX LISA participants indicate economic factors as effecting their decision to investigate open source usage. Availability of Source Code was only a consideration for 33.3% of USENIX LISA users and 30% of Zenoss Open Source Community Users.
- The top priority for most organizations for 2010 was Monitoring followed by Security, Patching and Provisioning and Configuration Management.
- The most popular open source management tools for both groups of survey respondents included Nagios, MRTG/RRDTool, Snort and Zenoss.
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