The Virtual Divide: Systems Management vs. Virtualization Optimization

Virtualization is one of the most disruptive trends in IT today, and it’s going through a major change.

EMA’s Andi Mann, recently told us that about a quarter of all implementations of virtualization are outside of test and development. And this number is growing quickly. This means that there are newfound pressures for production ready virtualization implementations to succeed - success factors that have typically been outside the realm of test and development environments. Two of the main drivers inadequately addressed by the market are security and systems management. Many people are picking up on the security - but what baffles me is people aren’t talking more about the systems management problem with this new architecture.

1 comment April 18th, 2007 javier

Jack Loftus Writes About mynewplace.com

Jack Loftus of SearchEnterpriseLinux has written an article about mynewplace.com’s experience monitoring Resin-based apps with Nagios and the search for systems management software with better Resin support. They didn’t want to pay the license fees for Openview, and it’s important to note that Openview would not have supported their Resin deployment without significant customization. In fact, there was only one solution that supported their environment “out of the box” and didn’t exceed their IT budget - Hyperic HQ.

Read the full article.

Add comment April 10th, 2007 John Mark

Charles Lee on Hibernate and MySQL (theserverside.com)

Charles Lee posted an article on theserverside.com on the flexibility afforded us by our migration to Hibernate. In our case, it was the first step towards MySQL compatibility, and we wonder how many other enterprise developers have used it for similar purposes. Or course, the overall benefits of Hibernate go far beyond MySQL compatibility, but that’s the first obvious use case. Read the article for more detail on our migration, and be sure to take a look at his upcoming talk at the MySQL conference in Santa Clara on April 25.

Add comment April 9th, 2007 John Mark

Open Source 1997 vs. Open Source 2007

I just got off the phone with Jack Loftus, of TechTarget, and he was asking me some very pointed and insightful questions on open source business models. I’m sure he felt my enthusiasm on the subject as I highlighted some of the antiquated theories of what makes a good Open Source company and good Open Source business model. Mind you, I’m not interested in debating over the “One True Definition of Open Source™”. I’ll leave that to the fanboys. My conversation with Jack got me really pumped so I decided to write it down some additional thoughts in more detail. (Jack’s interview covered way more then that, so I don’t think I am ’scooping’ his story in any way!)

1 comment April 6th, 2007 javier

IDG Sweden: Top 5 Open Source Companies

Europe is catching on to Hyperic HQ, and this article in IDG.se proves it! It’s in Swedish, but we’ll give you the overview in English. Niklas Andersson comments on the continued progress of Web 2.0 and, like the O’Reilly Radar, notes how Web 2.0 is essentially a synonym for composite applications built on Open Source components. In light of that context, Niklas points out 5 Open Source companies/projects that people should be looking out for:

OpenID - Identity Management
OpenMPI - Multi-Processor Handling
Hyperic - Systems Administration
Memcached - Memory Caching
Mogile - Distributed File Systems

Pretty good company!

Add comment April 5th, 2007 John Mark