I am very pleased to announce that Zenoss will be sponsoring the first OpsCamp for cloud and operations professionals to be held in Austin, TX on January 30th. We are very pleased to have the opportunity to co-sponsor the event with our friends at Reductive Labs who sponor Puppet (open source configuration management) and Bitnami (whose corporate sponsor Bitrock, helps us produce the Zenoss stack installers).

OpsCamp is an event aimed at bringing together IT professionals who are interested in the evolution of systems management and application deployment as it bridges physical and virtual infrastructure and especially cloud computing technologies. The event will be a participant driven unconference style event made popular by events like BarCamp, Bloggercon and Mashup Camp.

Event Details

The event will be held in an unconference format starting with an Unpanel discussion about cloud computing followed by a self-organizing conference format where topics are proposed and then voted on by the attendees.

Saturday, January 30, 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Spider House Cafe

2908 Fruth St.

Austin, TX 78705

While attendance is free, RSVP is required: http://www.opscamp.org/austin

What People are Saying

Dave Nielsen, co-Founder CloudCamp

"With rapid change occurring in IT operations, we realized that a place is needed where operations personnel and sysadmins can meet to share their experiences, challenges and solutions. OpsCamp is organized as an unconference which encourages the open exchange of ideas around next generation technologies and strategies for IT Operations. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate."

John M. Willis, Author of Cloud Computing and Systems Management Blog, co-host IT Management Podcast and the Cloud Cafe

"While the cloud has lowered the barrier to entry for businesses to own a data center; it has not decreased the complexity of managing complex applications and data center operations.  OpsCamp is about exploring the opportunity to intersect ideas like agile development, continuous deployment, and data center operations to promote the rise of a new movement that breaks down the traditional walls between development and operations (i.e., DevOps)."

Michael Coté, Analyst at Redmonk, co-host IT Management Podcast

"After many years of steady pace in the IT world, the tools and technologies used to do the daily work of operations are rapidly changing. Thanks to virtualization and cloud computing moving mainstream, new, hopefully better ways to deliver IT are emerging. These things aren't always fully baked yet, but the thought-leaders and early adopters are quickly crystallizing. OpsCamp is an exciting chance to get involved in these conversations whether you want to start directing this shift in operations, figure out if it works for you, or just check it out. And, not only is it free, it's in a damn fine spot: Austin."

Luke Kanies, Founder of Puppet and Reductive Labs

"OpsCamp is a great opportunity to share expertise and experience in managing operations in the cloud.  The unconference setting provides a perfect mix between learning and sharing, and the intimate setting guarantees everyone gets something out of it."

Erica Brescia, CEO, BitRock and Bitnami Project Lead

"In rapidly evolving disciplines such as how to deploy and manage software in the cloud, the one-way dialogue found at typical conferences just doesn't cut it. OpsCamp will give early adopters and innovators the opportunity to share best practices and guide the development of the next generation of cloud operations tools and services."

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