It seems like ages since I’ve had the time to blog about Hyperic. Some is due to the addition of the far more eloquent and far more entertaining Jeremy Hogan as the voice of our community. But more it seems that growth is ironically reducing my capacity to cover all the new topics. I was [...]

First Enterprise Application to Prove MySQL Supports Immense Scale JAVAONE—San Francisco, Calif. – News Release: Today at JavaOne, Hyperic (Booth #1028), announced the results of a large scale performance study on Hyperic using Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database as a backend. Results showed Hyperic monitoring upwards of 2.3 million metric transactions per minute. These results definitively [...]

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 [...]

HQU Plugin Framework Provides Full Access To Deploy Zero-Touch, Zero-Downtime Web Infrastructure Management Automation SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – March 26, 2008 Hyperic today announced a new version of both the open source and enterprise versions of its flagship software, Hyperic HQ The centerpiece of the new release is a plugin framework, HQU, that makes it [...]

Sys-Con just announced that Hyperic HQ has been nominated for this summer’s Reader’s Choice Awards. The category we were nominated for is Best Virtualization Platforms Monitoring & Reporting. The nomination process is open until Sunday June 22nd, and the voting period will be until November 15. The final results will be at the upcoming 4th [...]

I am very excited to have finally formalized our relationship with the Order of the Green Polo, the folks that run OpenNMS. This new partnership and product roadmap highlights the right answer to many questions mulling around our industry. Systems Management Taxonomy – Systems Management is a BIG term. It has many disciplines within it. [...]

Hyperic is pleased to accept the honor of having Hyperic HQ named as SourceForge.net’s project of the month for January 2008. The popular Hyperic HQ project has been hosted on Sourceforge.net since its launch just 18 months ago. With nearly 2 million registered users and more than 166,500 software projects, SourceForge.net is world’s largest Open [...]

The first release of Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta is now available for download. This exciting new release is designed to provide a more powerful “single pane of glass” to monitor, diagnose and manage today’s complex, custom, web-based IT environments. In addition, significant infrastructure enhancements to the core Hyperic HQ platform were added to deliver the [...]

Apple announced its latest version of its popular Mac OS X distribution, code named Leopard, on Friday, October 26. Today, November 12, Hyperic announced that Hyperic HQ now includes support for Leopard, giving Mac developers and administrators alike access to fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management for the new OS. Businesses, particularly in the technology sector, [...]

Ubuntu, the outstandingly popular desktop Linux distribution, announced its latest version on Thursday, October 18. Today, October 25th, Hyperic announced that Hyperic HQ now includes support for Gutsy Gibbon, giving administrators of the Linux-based operating system access to fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management for the new OS, and becoming the first IT management provider to [...]

I just wanted to pipe in and let everyone know that there is exactly one winner of Best Systems Management Tool at LinuxWorld Expo. And that winner is, of course, Hyperic HQ 3.1! See the press release here. Here is photo evidence: (from left to right: Stacey, John Mark, and Javier) Hail to the victors! [...]

Released today, administrators of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System now have access to a fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management solution with Hyperic HQ for Alfresco. The new Hyperic HQ plugin instantly enables HQ and Alfresco administrators to take full advantage of Hyperic’s powerful management capabilities, including auto-discovery, monitoring, complex alerting and remediation. With today’s [...]

Redmonk’s Michael Cote got around to posting this interview of Javier from JavaOne. The wait was worth it – the audio is far better than the one I posted of the same interview. Coté and James talked with Javier about SIGAR, Hyperic’s open source library for getting low-level system information, the perennial question of single- [...]

Matt Asay has posted a great profile of our very own Ryan Morgan, Hyperic co-founder, Chief Software Architect, and the most talented Hyperican with a golf club. He was also a driving force behind Apache’s mod_ftp. Go Ryan – you can’t stop him, you can only hope to contain him.

Beginning today, administrators of Zimbra Collaboration Suite, the leader in open source, next-generation email and collaboration software, now have a fully supported, enterprise-ready solution for managing their complex, mission critical environments with the general availability of Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra. The plugin made available by Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, will [...]

With our recent news of series B funding and a new HQ release just yesterday, we have once again become the subject of a few news articles. Here are a few of them that we discovered this morning: Conversation with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic – Dan Kuznetzky’s blog post for ZDNet’s Virtually Speaking on [...]

Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, has written the first in a series of articles to be featured in the Java Developers Journal titled, “Bridging the Gap Between Open Source and Commercial Applications.” The series of articles is about the migration of HQ from EJB2 to Hibernate and is a fascinating case study about the [...]

In this article on ITManagement.com, Theo Ludwick published an extended piece about the Hyperic SIGAR – MySQL announcement. Unknown to us before we read this, Zack Urlocker left this gem of a quote: “These guys [Hyperic] are really the experts. We looked at several libraries and also considered writing it ourselves. The biggest thing that [...]

You may have noticed some articles and blog posts recently regarding our announcement with MySQL. This has been in development for quite some time, and we’ve been so excited about it, that it’s been difficult to keep a lid on it. We’ve been working with the MySQL folks for a while now, because they wanted [...]

JBoss, MySQL first to integrate Hyperic technology into their offerings SAN FRANCISCO – October 30, 2006 – Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open-source IT management, today announced a partner program that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to add enterprise-class, multi-platform IT management capabilities to their products. MySQL and JBoss are among the first companies [...]

Hyperic’s SIGAR Cross-Platform API to be Integrated into MySQL’s new Monitoring & Advisory Service SAN FRANCISCO – October 30, 2006 – Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open-source IT management, today announced a technology license agreement with MySQL AB, the developer of the world’s most popular open source database. Under terms of the agreement, Hyperic’s [...]

Hyperic HQ Undergoes Code Audit From Fortify SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management, today enhanced the security of its Hyperic HQ IT management platform with a comprehensive code audit, courtesy of Fortify Source Code Analysis. The audit, together with the addition of Fortify Source Code Analysis to Hyperic’s development [...]

With Latest Hyperic HQ Version, System Administrators Can More Easily Manage Heterogeneous Environments with Free Downloads SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management, today announced the availability of the latest version of Hyperic HQ. The new version adds Windows support to the eight operating systems and platforms already supported by [...]

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HYPERIC HQ SURPASSES 10,000 DOWNLOADS IN 60 DAYS Open Source IT Management Platform Will Be Demo’ed at LinuxWorld Expo SAN FRANCISCO, CA –August 15, 2006 – Hyperic, Inc., announced today that Hyperic HQ, the first open source platform for managing all commercial and open source components of the web infrastructure and the first IT management [...]