LinuxWorld Expo - August 7 - 9, San Francisco
Hyperic will have a booth at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, from August 7 to 9. We will post the booth number when it’s finalized.
2 comments June 28th, 2007 John Mark
Archive for June, 2007
Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra is now available
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 allow Zimbra customers to easily monitor and manage the performance of their open source messaging and collaboration suite along with all other layers of their infrastructure.
1 comment June 26th, 2007 Hyperic Press Desk
Open Source Bake-offs, and Trade-offs
NetworkWorld’s Barry Nance just posted his bakeoff of open source management tools. This test focused on the open source products available from 3 vendors, Hyperic, Zenoss and Groundwork. The test was based on functionality alone, and did not consider other specialized topics such as scalability, setup or any special management of specific technologies. In Barry’s words:
We tested each product’s ability to discover, manage, administer, monitor, report on, diagnose, troubleshoot, reset, reconfigure and secure our network devices, applications, servers and clients.
Add comment June 22nd, 2007 javier
Mysterious “Computer Glitches” strike again
This week there are a couple scary headlines that affected millions of people, all of which were blamed on the infamous “computer glitches.”
- FAA Computer Glitch Causes Flight Delays - read full article
- United Airlines suffers computer glitch - ZDNET Blog
I don’t know the specifics of these “glitches” but I suspect you really can’t blame the computers. A couple of decades of working with computers tells me that computers are pretty binary. They either work or they don’t, and which way it goes depends exactly on what you tell it to do. Now, no IT professional is going to tell a computer on purpose to wipe out the airline industry for a few hours or any other business, but it happens all the time. Why? They lacked the timely information to help them get sufficiently ahead of the problem.
4 comments June 20th, 2007 javier
Podcast with Microsoft’s Sam Ramji
Doug and Javier had a great conversation with Sam Ramji of Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab. You can read about it at Port 25. Some choice tidbits:
We had a great discussion, which I opened bluntly by saying, “You don’t need to tell me about your software; I’ve seen it, my lab team thinks it’s cool, and we’re impressed.” He was happy to hear it but probably not surprised.
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1 comment June 19th, 2007 John Mark
Doug MacEachern on SYS-CON.TV
Doug MacEachern, Hyperic’s CTO, was interviewed by Roger Strukhoff, Group Publisher and Editorial Director of SYS-CON Media. Here’s the video of that encounter:
Video webcast from SYS-CON.TV. See original page of Doug’s interview.
Add comment June 14th, 2007 John Mark
Hyperic and the "New Wave" of Management
Jack Hughes, of OPENXTRA Limited, a privately held network management VAR in the UK, has been writing a series this week on the “New Wave” of systems management. Jack touched on an important topic today when evaluating vendors:
“One of the odd things about the three new wave players is that, of the three, only one (Hyperic) supports Windows natively.”
Yes, we do – and Microsoft loves us for it! In fact, they are even a customer! Their Open Source labs are loving us as well… stay tuned for a podcast we did with them to be posted on port25 soon.
Add comment June 14th, 2007 javier
SysAdmin Magazine: RIP
CMP issued a press release today that announced “Based on shifting audience and market conditions, CMP is closing SysAdmin.” If you didn’t see it, that may have something to do with this nugget being buried in the 28th paragraph. This is a great loss for the community since SysAdmin was one of the few (if not the only?) magazines aimed squarely at the IT Ops/Admin teams which we serve. Part of me wonders whether this is just a natural side effect of more and more time spent online versus the magazine itself simply running out of steam. The timing is also ironic given the recent amount of activity in tools and technologies (like Hyperic HQ) aimed squarely at these readers.
1 comment June 13th, 2007 javier
Open Source Business 3 + 3
Stephen Walli was kind enough to request my opinion on 3 success factors and 3 things to avoid when building an open source business. It’s hard to beat Stephen’s 3, I agree with all of them - one of the most gratifying being the user is in control, acting as a catalyst to spread the word and empowered to use your product in organizations who may not have traditionally considered your solution. The “sneaking into the floorboards” gets projects far more play and proves them out by the ingenuity and acceptance of the end user, and enables the user to satisfy their needs with what works for them - not what someone else decides to pay for.
2 comments June 11th, 2007 javier
Announcing the Hyperic VMware Appliance
…and it’s ready for download.
We’ve always been great at giving our customers the ability to manage their VMware servers and guest VM’s, but now we’ve taken the extra step of creating a ready-to-run VMware appliance.
Basic platform: Debian 4.0
HQ version: 3.0.5-417 OS
Basic install:
- Have VMware player installed (or server)
- Start the appliance and login either as root or hyperic, with the password “hqadmin”. After logging in, you should see a message displaying your local Web URL for HQ, plus the username and password. (note: there’s a small chance that you might see an incorrect URL. If it contains “127.0.0.1″ you’ll have to replace that with the machine’s real address.)
3 comments June 8th, 2007 John Mark
