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Open source network monitoring software vendor Zenoss announced the release of Zenoss Enterprise 2.5, the company's commercial version of its flagship product. It sports several new features, most notably Amazon EC2 monitoring that provide users with dynamic snapshots of performance and the ability to drill down on performance issues with inside the instance monitoring.

Zenoss Enterprise 2.5's focus is on scalability and security with an eye toward future datacenter platforms and technologies. Additional new features include:

I'm beginning to think the folks at Zenoss never sleep. How else can the popular open source network monitoring software vendor explain all the recent announcements and news they've been making the last few days? Let's start with the contest.

The new Community ZenPack Contest captures the cloud computing craze. Zenoss in the Clouds ZenPack Contest is aimed at users who want to create modules, or ZenPacks, to allow Zenoss to monitor cloud infrastructureand service providers, or deploy cloud-based technologies.

If you'll be at Ohio LinuxFest this weekend, then be sure to check out Zenoss Community Day on September 25th. Zenoss, the open source network monitoring software vendor, is hosting a free daylong event at the Hyatt Regency and Columbus Convention Center for its current users and anyone who wants to know more about the project. There will be plenty of hands-on product training, followed by a LinuxFest pre-party at a nearby watering hole.

I caught up with Zenoss VP of Community, Mark Hinkle, to find out more about this event and what's in store for the future of Zenoss. Here's what he had to say.

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The folks at Zenoss have been busy. The open source network and systems monitoring vendor just released Zenoss Core 2.4 last month and announced today that its Enterprise edition has a new version out as well. Zenoss Enterprise 2.4 sports several new features and improvements, and also a little added incentive that many IT managers will have a hard time not giving a second look.

Open source network management system Zenoss has released Zenoss version 2.4. It sports a number of new features, refreshed documentation, and more than 400 bugfixes to improve overall stability. In addition to the system's core monitoring capabilities, the Zenoss community has created over 70 plugins called ZenPacks that provide additional functionality, statistics, and data.

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