Today, Hyperic is sharing an exciting new plugin as part of our ongoing preview of Hyperic HQ 4.0. The beauty of this plugin is it actually supports TWO products: Oracle Application Server Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J) As a relative new-comer to the Hyperic Engineering team, I would like to use this opportunity to introduce [...]

The good things keep happening every day here at Hyperic. Today’s good news is that Barry Klawans has officially joined our team! Many of you know Barry as the co-founder and longtime CTO of JasperSoft. Barry recently took leave of JasperSoft to find something that let him enjoy his family more. However, for those of [...]

Like clockwork, the good people of Hyperic Engineering have shipped the third maintenance release for the HQ 3.2 family.  This release is a roll-up of the handful of bug fixes since HQ 3.2.2.  We’d like to thank those customers and users that took the time to let us know how we could improve on HQ [...]

This phrase was used close to a dozen times by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com at his recent keynote at the MySQL conference. Werner used it to describe the day to day tasks of most web operations teams… tasks like racking boxes, configuring routers, and installing software. He mentioned ops teams at Amazon got to [...]

We’re adding a new event to our list this year – Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. The event takes place this week, and is promising to be a great experience. There will be over 10,000 people here in San Francisco focused on evolving Web 2.0 technologies, and consequently – managing them, which is where Hyperic [...]

Recently, I have gotten to know Roberto Galoppini. In our conversations, Roberto has asked some pressing questions on two of the more interesting areas of my job. The importance of Community and the importance of Microsoft to Hyperic in growing our business. I’ll talk about his recent post on Microsoft later, but right now, I’d [...]

The team just finished our second successful MySQL Con. Many thanks to Marten & Zack and all the folks at O’Reilly that put on such a great conference. This year definitely had a different feel, and of course that had a lot to do with Sun’s influence. It felt like it was almost a new [...]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to Marten Mickos deliver the opening keynote at the MySQL conference here in Santa Clara. As usual, Marten does an enviable job at delivering a presentation which talks about MySQL’s business, its new relationship with Sun Microsystems, and what this all has to do with Open Source. I’ve [...]

Dan Fost, a freelance reporter for the New York Times, did an article today on virtualization. In the beginning part of his research, he came to me to understand more about how virtualization is changing IT. Dan’s article, titled Closing the Doors That Virtual Sprawl Leaves Open, covers a broad array of topics from the [...]

In this HyperCAST, Marty Messer walks through the creation and deployment of SNMP-based plugins in Hyperic HQ. New users to Hyperic HQ often don’t know that an HQ agent can be used to connect to other SNMP-enabled devices on a network. This session shows you how to leverage that.

The Linux Foundation is holding their Collaboration Summit in Austin, TX this week. After browsing through some of the videos, I was pleasantly surprised to see Javier getting an interview.

We are positively stoked to be going to this weekend’s Lug Radio Live in San Francisco! Lug Radio Live (LRL) will be held on April 12 and 13 at the Metreon on 4th and Howard, which you’ll note is approximately 2 blocks from Hyperic headquarters. LRL features a who’s who of prominent Open Source luminaries, [...]

Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Now Available! Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Enterprise are now available! This version features the hot new HQU Plugin framework and the first stages of OpenNMS integration. Also new is an MSI installer for Windows and RPM’s for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Get this release now: Download HQ [...]

[via the good folks at Engadget] This has to be the most unique use of data center energy ever devised. It seems IBM has opted to use excess heat from a new facility in Uitikon, Switzerland to heat a nearby swimming pool. Use this: To warm this: The article from the AP states: In a [...]

Yesterday was indeed April 1st aka April Fools Day. It also happened to be a Board of Directors meeting day here at Hyperic. Combine the two, and I pretty much combust over the need to have a little fun afterwards. In a previous job, I almost always played the April Fools Day prank on my [...]