AUSTIN, TX, Jun 02 (MARKET WIRE) —
Zenoss Inc., the fastest-growing provider of commercial open source,
enterprise IT monitoring products for physical, virtual, and cloud-based
IT environments, today announced that Geeknet, whose online properties
include the world’s largest open source repository SourceForge and the
popular technology-related news site Slashdot, has selected Zenoss to
monitor its entire network infrastructure. Geeknet serves an audience of
over 45 million users monthly. In addition to Sourceforge and Slashdot,
Geeknet’s additional community sites include ThinkGeek, Ohloh, Geek.com
and freshmeat.

After exploring numerous open source monitoring solutions, Geeknet needed
a more robust, large-scale solution when it opened its new datacenter in
Chicago, where it wanted to centralize management of more than 400 new
servers that made up the organization’s network infrastructure. Geeknet
turned to Zenoss Core for simple integration, open standards,
auto-configuration, and an easy-to-use interface.

“Our new datacenter provided an impetus to centralize and automate the
way we were managing systems, especially bringing new servers onto the
network as Geeknet continues to scale. With Zenoss auto-generating
configurations, my network operations team doesn’t have to spend tedious
hours manually deploying machines, and can instead focus on more
strategic work,” said Jay Seirmarco, CTO at Geeknet. “The fact that
Zenoss is open source and highly customizable for our diverse
infrastructure made it the most attractive solution for Geeknet.”

Geeknet first came across Zenoss Core because it is a project hosted on
its SourceForge website. With more than one million downloads, it is the
most popular IT Management project on SourceForge.net.

“Zenoss provides Geeknet with a single, integrated software package in
which to easily manage the configuration, health and performance of its
complex, large-scale network infrastructure,” said Mark Hinkle, VP of
Community at Zenoss. “In addition to the product, the beauty about Zenoss
is that it’s backed by 75,000 people — an incredibly active community
providing support and help to the Geeknet operations team.”

Zenoss monitors and manages Geeknet’s entire network infrastructure.
Geeknet has an automated configuration process and centralized network
management, streamlining Geeknet’s workflows, reducing the amount of
manual labor required to run machines on the network and increasing the
ability to easily scale. With Zenoss, Geeknet was able to spin up and
deploy a machine in 25 minutes, when it previously took hours.

“We are responsible for everything from the IP and OS level down, and our
infrastructure is complex in terms of services and scale,” said Zac
Sprackett, senior systems administrator at Geeknet. “Zenoss was easily
integrated and made it especially easy to plug-in third party scripts
that you have to write as a systems administrator.”

About Zenoss Core

Zenoss Core is an award winning open source network monitoring and
systems management project that delivers the functionality to effectively
manage the configuration, health and performance of networks, servers and
applications through a single, integrated software package. The Zenoss
Community is comprised of over 75,000 active members who are instrumental
in evolving the solution as well as providing timely support and help for
all questions. One of the most active projects on SourceForge, Zenoss
Core has been downloaded over one million times and is being used by
companies in over 180 countries. The Zenoss Core project is sponsored by
Zenoss Inc., a commercial open source independent software vendor. For
more information on Zenoss Core, visit http://community.zenoss.org.

About Zenoss Inc.

Zenoss is a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy
enterprise IT management products. Zenoss Enterprise is a single
model-based product that enables organizations to seamlessly manage
physical, virtual and cloud based 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 have been used in over 25,000 organizations in 180 countries around
the world. Commercial customers include leading companies such as
Rackspace, VMware, LinkedIn, Carlson, Motorola and Deutsche Bank. To
learn more about Zenoss’ award-winning IT operations management software,
visit http://www.zenoss.com.

ABOUT GEEKNET

Geeknet is the online network for the global geek community. Our sites
include SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, Geek.com, Ohloh and freshmeat.
We serve an audience of over 45 million users* each month and provide the
tech-obsessed with content, culture, connections, commerce, and all the
things that geeks crave. Want to learn more? Check out geek.net.

(*April 2010 Unique Visitors 45.7M. Source: Google Analytics and
Omniture) Geeknet, SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, Geek.com, Ohloh and
freshmeat are trademarks of Geeknet, Inc.

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