Special Presenter - Mark Hinkle


Special Presenter - Mark Hinkle

 


Mark Hinkle has been the force behind Zenoss' remarkable community adoption and involvement, growing community membership to over 40,000 members since joining the company in 2006. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration." (Thomson, 2006)


Mark has also held executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including Earthlink (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.

Mark blogs about open source and technology trends at Socialized Software

Presentation: The Zenoos Core a free and open source systems management solution.

 

The presentation will encompass the features of Zenoss Core a free and open source systems management solution designed to monitor all aspects of the network - applications, servers, network devices, operating systems and more. Mark will present the Zenoss solution and detail the features compared to other open source applications that are similiar - Nagios, Zabbix, etc. The bulk of the presentation will be a step-by-step tour of Zenoss Core and it's capabilities to gather, report on and alert users to the health of their network.