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 [...]

SCaLE 7x is the premier Open Source Community conference in the southwestern US. It’s taking place at the Westin LAX Hotel which is the same venue as last year. Registration begins at 8am (yes it’s early but not my idea!) with the keynote starting at 9am. The agenda is packed with great sessions and speakers and Hyperic [...]

A bit dated, but I finally got a break from conferences to watch all the great videos that were made about CloudStatus.

Amazon AWS Loves CloudStatus.com, Here’s The Proof (Hyperic Video 2/2) from Toon Vanagt on Vimeo.
My favorite is Virtualization.com’s for a few reasons:

Trav still had the mohawk in that video. Yes, people - the girlfriend [...]

The end of July brings new possibilities of an open source cloud
The industry is still talking about the Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo announcement. InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder adds his take to the news
451 Group releases their CAOS Theory, reporting the increase of community Linux distributions
Here it comes! The virtual sprawl is hitting Wall Street [...]

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. I traveled for [...]

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 communities [...]

The Velocity Conference wrapped up yesterday. It was a sold out show - and just the kind of crowd that we like to see! The whole conference was based on web operations, and the conference goers were very enthusiastic. Many of the sessions were standing room only. It was personally great for me to be [...]

 

 Velocity 08 - Javier Soltero Keynote on CloudStatus: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As the world moves to cloud computing, service level insight gets foggier. Don’t let your performance get lost in the clouds.
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Hyperic headlines today’s news, but as usual Yahoo! is all over everybody else’s news…
Michael Vizard writes about the need for change in IT management as cloud computing becomes increasingly commonplace, citing Hyperic as a company that is helping to create this new approach to IT management
Get your download finger ready! Mozilla confirmed its release of [...]

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 [...]