
Hot on the heels of Digium's $13.8m funding round, systems management vendor Zenoss has become the latest open source vendor to get a cash injection.
The IT monitoring specialist has raised $4.8m from Boulder Ventures and Intersouth Partners, among others, which it will use for product development and commercial operations development, as well as funding the Zenoss community.
Also involved in the funding are NEA founder Frank Bonsal, Sourcefire's chief marketing officer, Michele Perry, Amplifier Venture Partners, and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED). The deal sees Jonathan Perl from Boulder Ventures and Don Rainey from Intersouth Partners join Zenoss's board of directors.
Zenoss has previously been mentioned in dispatches here. It launched its open source systems management project in February and in April added the ability to monitor servers running Microsoft Windows using Microsoft's Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) protocol.
In May it was one of the founding members of the Open Management Consortium alongside Ayamon, Emu, Qlusters, Symbiot and Webmin.
A recent OMC member is Hyperic, which raised $3.8m funding in June.