Hyperic Newsletter - September, 2006

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Add comment September 27th, 2006 John Mark

Hyperic and Commoditization of Systems Management

Phil Wainright has written a post on his blog at ZDNet about the “commoditization of systems management.” Phil’s blog focuses on SaaS, so that’s his perspective when he discusses being able to manage systems from afar without the need for an agent (Hyperic HQ uses an agent-server architecture). There are a couple of points he makes that we completely agree with - and have addressed in Hyperic HQ. There are a couple of points he makes that we disagree with entirely, so let’s review.
In this case, he’s discussing new approaches to systems management, and in isolating difficulties with older approaches, he writes,

Add comment September 26th, 2006 John Mark

Open Source Conversations: Javier Soltero

Opening Move with Scott Mace, a series of podcasts on the Open Source Conversations channel, has just posted a podcast with Javier, “From Proprietary to Open Source“. It’s a wide-ranging discussion about Hyperic’s decision to release software under the GPL, why we chose the GPL, and with whom we compete.

On the competitive landscape, Javier notes that Hyperic HQ is more complementary than competitive with the “Big 4″, substantially different from Microsoft Mon, and co-exists pretty easily with projects like Nagios. HQ was built to co-exist with the current IT landscape and all of the various tools that may be already deployed in a given environment. HQ is basically the “Switzerland” of systems management.

Add comment September 26th, 2006 John Mark

Announcing: Hyperic HQ 2.7.4

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Hyperic HQ 2.7.4. You may download this release from the SourceForge.net project page. Please read the release notes before proceeding!

As always, report any issues on our Jira tracker and collaborate with other HQ users on our forums.

Add comment September 25th, 2006 John Mark

Rob Lackey (SugarCRM): LinuxWorld Report + Hyperic

I somehow failed to see this the first time around, so this is a month late. Rob Lackey, Manager of Information Technology at SugarCRM, included us in his LinuxWorld roundup. Here’s the relevant snippet:

” 3) Hyperic - System Management with Open Source

Add comment September 21st, 2006 John Mark