MuleSource Chooses Hyperic to Add Management Capability to ESB Platform

You can find the press release here. You may have noticed that multiple companies have now decided to add Hyperic technology to their enterprise offerings. It turns out that integrated management capabilities are a big deal. Who knew? Those rascally IT ops managers don’t want to add anything to their data center that’s going to increase their pain. “What can we do,” they are thinking, “to minimize the amount of time we need to manage new stuff that’s added.” It turns out to be a pretty compelling argument when you can tell a potential customer that, not only is your software cheaper, better, faster, etc., but it also comes with a management platform that can a.) easily manage your deployment of X and b.) integrate with your existing infrastructure, if so desired.

Add comment November 13th, 2006 John Mark

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Add comment November 8th, 2006 John Mark

Javier Soltero: Open source IT management ready for prime time

Jack Loftus has published an interview of Javier Soltero, Hyperic CEO, over at SearchOpenSource. In this interview, Javier gets to the heart of why open source is marching into the IT management arena:

“There is a notion that as we roll more and more technology into the data center, you - administrators - end up managing huge heterogeneous environments of mixed infrastructure technology ranging from Unix to open source to Linux and so forth. This means there is a new need to adapt to technology being put into production.”

Add comment November 3rd, 2006 John Mark

ITManagement.com Article on Hyperic SIGAR and MySQL

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 we found was that, while some of the offerings were good in one area, none of them had the breadth that Hyperic brings. Further, because SIGAR is available under the GPL, it was easy for us to grab and, as Hyperic expands its reach in the future, our support program will expand with it.”

Add comment November 3rd, 2006 John Mark

MySQL Becomes First "SIGAR Aficionado"

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 to go to market with their enterprise product. They wanted to provide a management interface for MySQL, and it had to support the same platforms as MySQL, which is much easier said than done. Every operating system has a different way of storing and retrieving system-level data, and MySQL Enterprise needed a portable way to access this information. Enter SIGAR:

Add comment November 1st, 2006 John Mark