Another Pat on the Back for Open Source

Another testimony to the scalability of open source from a big enterprise.

Steve MacQuiddy, Director, Server Farm Operations at Cadence Design Systems sent a pretty cool e-mail to the Ganglia Developers e-mail list the other day.

Cadence uses a combination of the open source projects Ganglia, Nagios, and Cacti via GroundWork Monitor Professional to monitor their servers.

“Kudos to you and the other Open Source developers devoting their time to these tools…We have a pretty large deployment of servers that are using these tools (and these tools displaced a well known commercial product in our environment…with a nice ROI)…”

Cadence monitors 6832 systems with 3 aforementioned open source tools.

6832 servers that are being monitored with precision and with a high degree of flexibility by an open source solution at a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives.

Open source fosters a great team effort by various developers from different projects, like Cacti, Nagios, and Ganglia, to create a monitoring solution able to handle huge mission critical environments like Cadence.

To echo Stephen, kudos the open source development community at large for continuing to devote their time to helping companies of all sizes take advantage of these flexible, low-cost open source tools.