HQ 4.1.2 is Now Available

Even though we were all a bit busy last week with a certain major announcement, Hyperic is pleased to announce the release of HQ 4.1.2, the second maintenance release in the HQ 4.1 family.  As with all maintenance releases, this release fixes bugs since the last release and enhancements to existing functionality.
You can get 4.1.2 [...]

[ More ] May 11th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

SpringSource Acquires Hyperic

Well, folks, the cat’s finally out of the bag.
Today we are proud to announce that Hyperic has been acquired by SpringSource. It’s been a pretty exciting couple of months here at our San Francisco headquarters. Luckily our team hasn’t missed a beat in our continued quest to build a great software company.
Why is this a [...]

[ More ] May 3rd, 2009 | 15 Comments | Posted in Javiers Blog |

HQ 4.1.1 is Now Available

It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the newest member of the HQ family, HQ 4.1.1! This is the first maintenance release in the HQ 4.1 series.
You can get 4.1.1 here. Enjoy!
And as always, thanks to the many users, customers, and engineers that contributed to this release.

[ More ] April 8th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Hyperic HQ |

Entrepreneurs - Want a Leg to Stand On? Choose Open Source, Cloud or Magic

As a tech entrepreneur and startup veteran, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to start a new company these days.
Assuming an entrepreneur wants to be successful, my conclusion is that the only real choices for the basis of a new technology company are open source, the cloud (including SaaS) or innovation that [...]

[ More ] April 2nd, 2009 | 5 Comments | Posted in Javiers Blog |

Gartner Selects Hyperic as “Cool Vendor”

Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Management and Professional Services, 2009″ report by analysts Milind Govekar, Cameron Haight, David W. Cearley and Lydia Leong references Hyperic as the vendor to talk to about your cloud management initiatives. Gartner’s report states that key innovation in cloud computing management will be provided by startup vendors.
According to the [...]

[ More ] March 20th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Monitoring Complex AJAX Applications

Join us tomorrow for a free live joint Webinar with eValid as we discuss how to monitor complex AJAX applications. You’ll learn how to improve complex web application monitoring by using eValid functional tests with direct reporting into Hyperic HQ. Edward Miller, eValid’s Chief Architect and our own Marty Messer will be leading this 1-hour Webinar.
See eValid’s functional [...]

[ More ] March 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Events |

Hyperic HQ 4.1 is GA

The latest release of Hyperic HQ, 4.1 is live and full of the features and updates that our customers and the community have asked us for. 
Thank you to our community members who spent many hours hammering the 4.1 beta release over the past few weeks and got us to this point of a solid GA [...]

[ More ] March 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

Are Open Source Management Tools Up To The Job?

Kevin Burton’s New Feedblog wants help finding good open source software for IT monitoring.  Although Mr. Burton needs an IT monitoring solution, almost anybody making a software choice faces the same challenge.  
Not so long ago, when a business decided to solve a problem with software, the calculus was simpler: make or buy. Software products came [...]

[ More ] February 26th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Systems Monitoring and Management Simplified

If You Can’t Monitor Performance, How Do You Manage It? Applications and infrastructure performance must be consistently and vigilantly monitored, and expertly managed to maintain business efficiencies and assurances that service level agreements (SLAs) are being met.
Unfortunately, with networks operating across numerous remote locations and business functions managed across a spectrum of platforms, services and [...]

[ More ] February 25th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Monitoring 101 |

Hyperic HQ 4.1 Beta Now Available

Attention all beta testers.  We are very pleased to announce the availability of HQ 4.1 beta for download. Now is your chance to become part of the next dot release of Hyperic HQ!
We value your input and appreciate any comments, bugs or problems you may find. Not only does this make HQ 4.1 a more [...]

[ More ] February 24th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |