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 [...]

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 [...]

We at Hyperic have been speaking with lots of companies about their plans to move various development efforts into the cloud.  Over the last few years our strongest relationships have been with operations teams and systems administrators, but since launching Cloudstatus and our AMI version of Hyperic HQ we are speaking with more and more [...]

IDC confirmed my amateur predictions that the current economic turmoil will indeed be very good for those looking to the cloud. Both from a user perspective, as well as a vendor perspective. In fact, IDC’s Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst, is predicting adoption will accelerate due to market pressures in a recent [...]

Cloud Computing has been a much used and misunderstood term. You know its become mainstream when it attracts pundits of the caliber of Larry Ellison, who last week confessed his own confusion during an anti-cloud computing rant:
Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete [...]

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 [...]

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).

 

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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 [...]

Very interesting headlines in today’s HyperLINKS. Here are Tuesday’s tidbits:
VMware’s CEO and co-founder, Diane Green, has been let go and Paul Maritz (a former Microsoft Exec) is replacing her
Larry Dignan writes about a study that has shown the staggering rise in enterprise IT investment since 1994, from $3.5k per employee then, to $8k now
Merrill [...]

After the long weekend, HyperLINKS are back! Here are today’s top stories:
InfoWorld’s Ephraim Schwartz writes about the lack of standardization and security for the cloud
And in more cloud news, George Crump writes about cloud storage, mentioning that storage solutions will need to be able to scale, as well as be reliable as companies will [...]