Cloud Computing: Zenoss taps $25M to monitor the IT universe
October 9, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Zenoss will use its new-found cash to staff up its international operations, better support global partners, and improve the real-time analytics of its IT monitoring system, said CEO Bill Karpovich. Zenoss, which competes with offerings from computer giants IBM, CA, and HP to monitor IT regardless of how it’s deployed, just closed $25 million in Series C funding which will help it staff up its international presence, said Zenoss CEO Bill Karpovich.
The funding round was led by new investor Summit Partners with additional contributions from Grotech Ventures, Intersouth Partners and Boulder Ventures. It brings total funding to date to $45 million…
The company’s software — which monitors the use of IT assets, provides root cause analysis and automates remediation — is available in open-source and commercial versions. Three-quarters of the company’s user base is outside the US, mostly using its open-source version. “Just 20 percent of our commercial user base is international so we need hire there and better support our global partners Accenture and Cisco, which resell us,” Karpovich says…
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