How To Bring Open Source Network Management Tools into Mission Critical Roles in Your Organization

As individuals, we use and benefit from open source software every day. But there can be resistance from the decision makers in our organization. The Departmental and IT managers that make decisions often feel more comfortable dealing with a commercial software vendor rather than relying on Open Source software for critical roles.

This talk will not only explain the technical details of how Zenoss and OpenLDAP are being used for mission critical roles in a live operation running over 5700 virtual private servers, but will explain in plain language how cost savings and security improvements are being reaped every day by a real company. You will take away some valuable technical knowledge and some good "internal sales" ammunition for the open source evangelist in you.