Planet OmniTI ~ News and Blog Posts http://omniti.com/thinks en-us News OmniTI Appoints Wayne Moore Vice President of Product omniti-appoints-wayne-moore-vice-president-of-product omniti-appoints-wayne-moore-vice-president-of-product Wayne Moore Ph.D. has been appointed vice president of product. Moore will be serving as a senior management team member for both OmniTI and Circonus, OmniTI’s spinoff company, a provider of performance monitoring solutions. Wayne has a unique blend of business and technical savvy, and will strategically support marketing, sales, strategic and business development activities for both companies.

Moore has more than 30 years of experience in a variety of strategic marketing and business roles, most recently as the founder, technical leader and CEO of Microcosm, Inc., a successful engineering instrumentation development company. Prior to Microcosm, Moore was a founding member of three successful engineering start-up companies. Wayne earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University and his Masters and Ph.D. in Engineering from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is an adjunct instructor of Marketing, Strategy and Operations at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business.

According to Theo Schlossnagle, OmniTI’s founder and CEO, “Wayne’s track record of success speaks for itself, and we're thrilled to have such a great leader and executive on our team. Wayne brings his market knowledge, experience and enthusiasm to both OmniTI and Circonus. We look to him to develop an aggressive marketing plan that will create new opportunities in new markets for our products and services. Wayne will add tremendous value to our companies through his strong business and leadership experience.”

“Both OmniTI and Circonus are growing at a tremendous pace, and they are well known in the industry for driving innovation,” said Wayne Moore, vice president of product at OmniTI/Circonus.

I am looking forward to developing and capturing new market opportunities, as well as defining our market strategy and ongoing roadmap. It’s a great opportunity to expand on the already impressive service offerings and product lines.

~ Wayne Moore, Ph.D.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 14:37:15 GMT OmniTI's Treat and Sorber To Speak at PGCon pg-con-2012 pg-con-2012 PGCon is the place to meet, learn valuable insights and generally chat about the work being done with PostgreSQL, and it's shaping up to be the Postgres conference of the year. OmniTI is proud to be involved again this year, with perennial speaker Robert Treat doing two presentations, and this year he will be joined by Phillip Sorber, a Postgres contributor and DBA at OmniTI.

Treat will co-present a tutorial, Mastering PostgreSQL Administration, with Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. In this two-part course, attendees will learn the essential details of PostgreSQL configuration, security, maintenance, monitoring, tuning, backups and recovery. The course is designed for people with experience in database administration, but who are new to the Postgres platform.

In addition, attendees will hear Treat's Big Bad "Upgraded" PostgreSQL talk, covering several tools and tactics used at OmnITI to bring a large pg_upgrade project to completion, including all the different ways that things went wrong. Treat will discuss some of the changes seen after the upgrade, and improvements made using new, 9.1 features. According to Treat,

If you are using Postgres for mission-critical applications, you'll enjoy this look inside the operations of a complex system that lives on the edge.

OmniTI's Phillip Sorber is presenting a tutorial playfully titled, "Getting Hot and Streamy with Postgres: Using Postgres' Built-in Replication Facilities." This will be an overview of Postgres' built-in replication system, from PITR to cascading replication, complete with demonstrations. More emphasis will be given to the more recent and interesting technologies, such as streaming replication and hot standby. Sorber said,

My goal is that someone attending this tutorial would be able to understand enough about how replication works in Postgres to implement and maintain it going forward,

For more information about the conference, see PGCon.org.

 

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 19:17:11 GMT OmniTI's Schlossnagle to Speak at #ChefConf 2012 omnitis-schlossnagle-to-speak-at-chefcon-2012 omnitis-schlossnagle-to-speak-at-chefcon-2012 OmniTI's CEO, Theo Schlossnagle, will once again hit the road to speak at a new, major conference on Cloud Infrastructure. He'll be in San Fransisco on May 16 at #ChefConf, the inaugural conference hosted by Opscode. It promises three days of demonstrations, interactive workshops and presentations designed to help users harness the power of cloud infrastructure automation for their business. Organizers describe this new conference as "a meeting of the minds shaping the future of cloud infrastructure automation."

Schlossnagle asks: How can monitoring embrace the future of infrastructure automation? In this session he'll review how the world of infrastructure management has evolved over the past five years, and how the cloud and SaaS have caused a strong migratory pattern to automated provisioning and configuration. But, monitoring itself has not made the move to accommodate these shifts; he'll share his thoughts on what this all means and where monitoring products need to go to support the future.

Circonus, OmniTI's sister company, is a conference sponsor. Please visit the Circonus booth (#12) to learn about how you can gain real-time visibility into your entire organization's operations with a single, easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use unified system.

For more information, please visit #ChefConf.

]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 19:19:29 GMT Circonus Named a 2012 Cool Vendor in DevOps circonus-named-a-2012-cool-vendor-in-devops-by-gartner circonus-named-a-2012-cool-vendor-in-devops-by-gartner Circonus gives a cohesive view of how IT affects business, translating monitoring and trending into business sense. Circonus brings network monitoring back to a business intelligence system that is capable of graphing, trending, reporting and fault detection. Organizations no longer need pay the price for installing and integrating multiple tools on one system.

According to Gartner,

Circonus offers DevOps and other IT teams the ability to quickly collect key infrastructure statistics, while ensuring the scalability needed to support rapidly growing server estates.


Built upon OmniTI's Reconnoiter platform, Circonus offers a SaaS-based service; an on-premises solution managed either by Circonus or the licensed enterprise (Circonus Inside); and Circonus Service Delivery Platform, a white-label offering for service providers. It's distributed architecture leverages OmniTI-developed technologies and open-source code, using existing data collection agents where they exist and its own agents where needed.

With other monitoring offerings, you get a black box. With Circonus, you get years of experience poured into and wrapped around a monitoring, visualization, alerting and trending system.

For more information, please visit circonus.com.

 

]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:21:07 GMT OmniTI Welcomes New Clients, US Airways and Lookbooks Media omniti-welcomes-new-clients-us-airways-and-lookbooks-media- omniti-welcomes-new-clients-us-airways-and-lookbooks-media- We're happy to extend a warm welcome new clients, US Airways and Lookbooks Media. We're looking forward to working with them and to a great relationship ongoing.

USAir, US Airways, along with US Airways Shuttle and US Airways Express, operates more than 3,000 flights per day and serves more than 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and South America. OmniTI is providing support for their email infrastructure, allowing the company to seemlessly send millions of confirmation and notification emails to its customers.

Lookbooks Media, Inc. is an innovative technology company providing integrated digital marketing solutions to the world’s leading fashion, beauty, photography, design and fine art clients. OmniTI is helping them with their platform, which seamlessly incorporates digital marketing tools, sales management and portfolio management.

]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:56:52 GMT OmniTI Debuts OmniOS, an Open Source Operating System for the Solaris Community omniti-debuts-omnios-an-open-source-operating-system-for-the-solaris-community omniti-debuts-omnios-an-open-source-operating-system-for-the-solaris-community Today at the DTrace Conference, OmniTI announced OmniOS, an open source operating system for application developers in the Solaris community looking for reliable, innovative, data-intensive application deployment.

OmniOS is a continuation of the OpenSolaris legacy and aims to address the longstanding issues that occurred when Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the operating system. OmniOS builds on Illumos to make a complete OS.

OmniOS provides users with a traditional, Solaris-like installable operating system with a minimal package set to ease regulatory compliance. It delivers a self-hosting environment with simplified processes for ongoing maintenance. Most importantly, it brings third-party software components up-to-date within OmniOS. Third-party software has been a problem with previous attempts to evolve OpenSolaris, as some have not been updated in a decade. It served as a key driver behind OmniTI’s interest to develop OmniOS.

According to Theo Schlossnagle, CEO of OmniTI,

Other attempts in the past to continue OpenSolaris resulted in excruciating work that would involve more than a week just to get the system up and running. With OmniOS, you can get it installed with a single command in 60 seconds.


Users can expect OmniOS to have a Solaris look and feel with an updated compiler tool chain (gcc 4.6.3), the latest OpenSSL (1.0.1) and a more consistent, dual instruction set support (x86 and x86-64). In addition, there are four key technologies that OmniTI included within OmniOS to bring significant business advantage to customers.

--Solaris containers: combination of system resource controls and the boundary separation provided by zones.

--Crossbow: provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, etc.), protocol or container.

--ZFS file system: combined file system and logical volume manager with superior
data integrity protection and scalability.

--DTrace: provides increased visibility and aids in troubleshooting on any level of the application stack.

OmniOS is our vision of what OpenSolaris could have been had it remained in the open. It runs better, faster and has more innovations,” continued Schlossnagle. “OmniTI did not want to lose the benefits that OpenSolaris technologies brought to customers, so we decided to pursue the continuation of the OS on our own. We've been running OmniOS in our data centers for six months and have seen tremendous results. We’re excited to announce our news at the DTrace conference because of its importance and relevance to this community.


OmniTI is currently using OmniOS for OmniTI customer applications and is making it generally available to the Solaris community for free with the intention that it becomes a standard platform for open source development. OmniTI will offer support for OmniOS in the future. It can be downloaded immediately at omnios.omniti.com

 

]]> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:39:17 GMT OmniTI at QCon, London omniti-at-qcon-london omniti-at-qcon-london Theo Schlossnagle will, once again, hit the road to deliver a session on Scalable Internet Architectures in QCon's Industrial-Strength Architecture for Integration and Web Computing track. He'll discuss the design principles of building highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance, Internet-facing systems. He'll walk attendees through the stack, from networking up to the application level, providing examples of how to do things right, and the consequences of doing them wrong. Examples will be drawn from network redundancy, caching, web app performance, database systems and service decoupling. Theo will also participate in a panel discussion on outsourcing. This is a well-known concept among managers for saving money in software development, but among developers, it is a different story. Theo and other panelists will share case studies and experiences on the infrastructure required for effective multi-sourcing. if you're in the area, you won't want to miss this event.


QCon is an enterprise software development conference designed for developers, team leads, architects and project managers offering opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, .NET, HTML5, mobile, agile and architecture communities. QCon London is organized by Trifork A/S; a software development company in Aarhus, Denmark and InfoQ: tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community.

]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:31:55 GMT Schlossnagle Asks: Is this Normal? schlossnagle-asks-is-this-normal schlossnagle-asks-is-this-normal OmniTI founder and CEO, Theo Schlossnagle, is at O'Reilly's Strata Conference this week, presenting, "Is this Normal? Finding Anomalies in Real-time Data." According to him, there are many modern techniques for identifying anomalies in datasets, however, there are fewer that work as online algorithms suitable for application to real-time streaming data. Worse, most of these methodologies require a deep understanding of the data itself. He will lead Strata attendees on a tour of the options for identifying anomalies in real-time data and discuss how much they really need to know beforehand, in order to guess at the ever-useful question: is this normal?

Strata Conference offers the nuts-and-bolts of building a data-driven business; the latest on the skills, tools and technologies needed to make data work. The conference brings together practitioners, researchers, IT leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss big data, Hadoop, analytics, visualization and data markets.

]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:11:44 GMT OmniTI Sponsors New Conference: PG Corridor Days - DC 2012 omniti-sponsors-new-conference-pg-corridor-days-dc-2012 omniti-sponsors-new-conference-pg-corridor-days-dc-2012 PG Corridor Days--DC is an intensive, one-day Postgres symposium with technical sessions focusing upon the core topics you need to succeed with Postgres. Topics for users, developers and contributors to Postgres are on tap.

This conference is part of the Postgres “Corridor Days” series: a new set of community-run conferences that will be held up-and-down the East Coast. For its inaugural year, the Corridor Days conference series will take place in Washington, D.C. and New York City.


Attendees can expect to learn lessons from leading companies who use Postgres, have a chance to meet face-to-face in the "hallway track" to make lasting connections, and engage the best and brightest in a lively job market. The final schedule will be announced shortly, but already a number of great speakers have been lined up, including:


    •    Stephen Frost, Senior Principal, Noblis

    •    Bruce Momjian, Senior Database Architect, EnterpriseDB

    •    Robert Treat, COO, OmniTI

    •    Greg Smith, Principal Consultant, 2nd Quadrant

The conference is hosted by the Baltimore/Washington Postgres User Group (BWPUG). BWPUG was established in 2009, and is currently organized by OmniTI's Robert Treat, and Greg Smith and Stephen Frost. BWPUG holds free, monthly meetups on emerging Postgres and database technology topics with speakers from around the corner, and around the world.

PG Corridor Days DC 2012 will be held on March 30th, 2012 at the Executive Conference & Training Center, in Sterling, Virginia.

]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:46:39 GMT Theo Schlossnagle Talks with John Furrier, Silicon Angle theo-schlossnagle-talks-with-john-furrier-silicon-angle theo-schlossnagle-talks-with-john-furrier-silicon-angle The Node Summit, held this past month in San Francisco, brought together business leaders and technology experts to discuss Node.js’ transformative role in the future of computing. OmniTI's Theo Schlossnagle moderated the panel discussion, APIs & Endpoints at Scale. Attendees heard from staff of eBay, Sabre and Twilio about the challenges faced by some of the world’s most transactionally busy systems: how they keep up with massive scaling requirements while meeting demand for ever faster response times, and how Node.js can help to overcome some of the key roadblocks that lie ahead.

While there, he sat sat down with John Furrier and Alex Williams of Silicon Angle, in the Cube, and talked about node and the future of DevOps.

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