Physical, virtual and cloud management solutions vendor Zenoss announced that its Zenoss Enterprise offering has been selected to be the observatory management system of the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN). RSN is a component of the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Project, and a 25-year research project in or exploration and scientific discovery in the Northeast Pacific Ocean led by the University of Washington.

The project is scheduled to kick off in 2014.

This networked system of ocean-observing sensors will be interconnected by approximately 500 miles of electro-optical cable, and is designed to operate continuously for 25 years, providing ten gigabits per second of telecommunications bandwidth and eight kilowatts of power to each primary instrumented site.”

RSN will study the complexities of the ocean environment, improve understanding of natural phenomena including earthquakes and measure the oceans role in modeling climate changes.

The staff at RSN, or more accurately, the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, will be utilizing Zenoss Enterprise for a number of things. Among these is uses are network and server health monitoring, the collection and storage of engineering telemetry from monitored components, anomaly detection and the streaming of data collected by the RSN system to the internet in near real-time.

The OII project engineers also plan on extending Zenoss’ existing system, and customize the GUI, and control options as well as command and control protocol and data collectors – all using ZenPacks.  The RSN network is currently under construction.

While this is the latest update from Zenoss, it’s not the only one we’ve learned of in recent weeks.  Not too long ago, Zenoss revealed the all new Zenoss Datacenter Insight analytics service. The real-time offering is a turnkey solution offering a number of metrics also usable for consumer level analytics, as well as for cloud infrastructure.

It’s clear that Zenoss is heavy in the analytics sector, finding new partners and clients for its custom and turnkey solutions.  For Zenoss, positioning itself well within this market means big business opportunities in the future, as analytics finds itself being applied to a number of use cases, broadening its spectrum for the types of groups that can take advantage of Zenoss’ offerings.