Zenoss At The Zenith

Zenoss CEO Greg Stock is leading his company to a whopping 165 percent growth in sales, staff growth of 40 percent and its highest number of new customers for the company added in a quarter.

The Austin, Texas-based developer of unified IT monitoring and service analytics for virtual, physical and cloud-based IT infrastructures reported the growth for its second quarter ending June 30, while also being selected as one of a handful of companies for Cisco's new Intercloud Application Developers Program.

Stock talked to CRN about Zenoss' strategic partnership with Cisco, the importance of open source in 2015 and why the networking giant's UCS is winning against hyper-converged offerings. Following are excerpts of the conversation.