The Little 4 of Open Source Systems Management

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The Little 4

Not often do you want an analyst to lump you into a group dubbed the "Little 4." However, that is what Redmonk analyst Cote did when he described the leading open source systems management vendors: Zenoss, Hyperic, OpenQRM, and GroundWork.

The Little 4, coincidently, are challenging the well established and proprietary Big 4 systems management vendors: IBM, HPC, HP, and CA. 

In a Zenoss blog post titled "On the Shoulders of Giants," Zenoss CTO and Co-founder Erik Dahl outlines three reasons the Little 4 are poised to compete with the mature systems management market:

  1. The Little 4 learn from the mistakes and hard lessons, such as implementation, importance, and architecture, of the Big 4.
  2. A low cost to high feature set ratio enables the Little 4 to reach the small to medium sized business.
  3. The Little 4 are commercial open source companies that leverage  community development practices to deliver innovative solutions quickly.
Erik wraps up his post with a nod to the giants of systems management.
The Little 4, we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size. --Erik Dahl

 

The Little 4 Vendors 

Find out more. Visit the open source systems management companies.

Note, the text descriptions below are direct quotes from each company's Web site.
  • Zenoss - Zenoss Core is an enterprise-grade network and systems monitoring product that delivers the functionality IT operations teams need to effectively manage the health and performance of their entire infrastructure through a single, integrated package.
  • Hyperic - Hyperic software is purpose-built to maximize availability of the Next Generation Data Center, where the demands of SOA, virtualization and composite applications are changing the pace and complexities of managing the data center.
  • OpenQRM - openQRM is an open source systems management platform that automates enterprise data centers and keeps them running.
  • GroundWork - GroundWork unifies leading open source projects to deliver complete enterprise-class systems and network management software.

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