The Hyperic product team is pleased to announce the general availability of SpringSource Hyperic 4.3. This release contains a number of features and updates that our customers and users have requested. Hyperic Open Source 4.3 features include: SNMP version 3 — improved support for SNMP v3 authentication, plus SNMP v3 privacy services support. Extended Windows [...]

After many months of tireless hard work and ingenuity, SpringSource Hyperic HQ 4.2.0 is finally ready to find a home in your very own data center.  This major release brings some pretty exciting new features to the product, and incorporates some cool tricks we learned from our SpringSource family.  Please take a look at the [...]

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.

Recently we were reading up on our favorite hobby, ogling at WebOps Visualization (so what? we’re geeks), and we came across this post by Jesse Robbins from the O’Reilly Radar that got us thinking about the enormous amounts of data and visualization going on in our very own HQ user base. Some of the most [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.3 is the second maintenance release in the 4.0 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.2. Go get it! To find out what goodies await you in 4.0.3, please checkout [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.2 is the first maintenance release in the 4.0 series (for those keeping score at home, 4.0.1 was our GA release), and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.1. Go get it! [...]

After almost 12 months of design and development, I am proud to announce the general availability of HQ 4.0! Now past its 5th year of production usage, it’s incredibly cool for me to see how this product has evolved from what we conceived back in 2002. With the help of hundreds of customers and thousands [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 3.2 family. HQ 3.2.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 3.2 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 3.2.4. Go get it! To find out what goodness 3.2.5 brings (and there’s a lot [...]

I decided that there is way too much to recap in one post, so I will summarize a single day at OSCON. Told in the style of television’s “24″. Hyperbole added to incriminate the guilty. OSCON — Portland — 7/23 – 7/24 The following happened between 6:00p – 8:00p (7/23) It was a long day. [...]

On this most hallowed and revered holiday, we decided to salute the unsung and often unwashed heroes of IT the only way we know how… by poking a little fun at the Real Men of Geekness. So, here’s to you, Mr. Underappreciated Sys Admin Guy (or Gal).

If you’ll be joining us at OSCON this year, be sure and check out the Evolution of Community panel featuring yours truly. Over the past ten years, nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of [...]

Nicholas Negroponte gives a TED talk about the first two years of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Even in it’s infancy it has created and made use of some truly amazing innovations: runs on less than 2W of manually rechargeable power powerful mesh networking capabilities dual mode display (works in direct sunlight) open [...]

I just can’t get enough of the code swarm visualization project. Michael Ogawa used Processing to create an “organic visualization” of well known open source projects like Python and PostgreSQL. It shows commits, by developer over time. Clouds of influence drift in and out of the core ring, branches tug one another back and forth [...]

This is my first blog post as the Director of Community Management for Hyperic, so I suppose I should begin with an introduction. I’m Jeremy Hogan, and I’m a hacker. If something works, I want to pull it apart and see how. If it’s broken, I have a compulsive need to try and fix it. [...]

From time to time, I think about what the definition of a small company is vs a big company. Many know I came from Siebel, a big company that was swallowed up by an even bigger company Oracle. I have been at Hyperic for a couple years now, and when I started we were assuredly [...]

It’s official, we’ve joined the micro-blogging storm! Actually, we joined a couple months ago, but I just decided to take over managing the account. We’ll be updating the website and forums over the next month or so, but if you want to follow us for now check out the account ‘hyperic’ on twitter. You can [...]

Once again, SourceForge.net is holding its annual community choice awards. As a former SourceForge.net worker bee, it’s great to be able to utilize what we built at VA Linux all those years ago. So, if you’re a fan of Hyperic HQ – and if you’re not, you really should be – nominate us in one [...]

Since the introduction of the HQU Plugin Framwork, we’ve seen a lot of activity in the Hyperic community around using this new capability to take HQ places it’s never been before.  I might be biased, but quite honestly the idea alone of HQU makes me a bit giddy.  Anytime I see this kind of power [...]

Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Now Available! Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Enterprise are now available! HQ 3.2.3 is a maintenance release with minor bugfixes. We recommend that all 3.2.x users upgrade to this latest version. Get it now: Download HQ 3.2.3 Read the Release Notes Meet and Greet, Part 1 While we may not [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Jon Travis, Principal Engineer at Hyperic and the guru behind HQU, did a HyperCAST yesterday on our newly released HQU UI plugin framework. To read more about HQU, see hquplugins.org – basically, HQU lets you build custom UI views, integrate with web services, interact directly with the HQ engine, and script out automated tasks. The [...]

InfoWorld has published extensive interviews with a stable of Open Source thought leaders on the eve of the Open Source Business Conference. Dubbed The Open Source Roundtable, it delivers a series of interviews with 11 individuals on the vanguard of Open Source, including, I was pleased to learn, Javier Soltero. For the sake of completeness, [...]