Hyperic and the "New Wave" of Management

June 14th, 2007 javier

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.

Microsoft support is very important, and interesting – but what’s even more interesting is that most open source system management providers don’t provide direct support for the technologies they manage. They stop at supporting operating systems (and as Jack points out, limited ones at that) and a few databases. They take the easy way out letting the users of their products to manually configure, code and compile their way through hooking their systems up. This drags out the process of implementing a systems management solution and also adds significantly to the hidden costs. Hyperic currently supports 46 different technologies across the full enterprise stack – web servers, application servers, middleware servers, virtualization servers, databases, networks and operating systems – and supports them immediately on installation. Auto-discovers them, in fact, so you don’t have to play connect the dots with your management system. And we’re going to be supporting a lot more VERY soon… We’re going to be using our new investment money to rapidly increase our inventory of supported products, both commercial and open source, so you don’t have to – so you can go back to the more important aspects of managing your business, not your machines.

… also, we have a VMware image, too – what’s even cooler about that is we don’t just exist inside the VM, we can actually manage the VM environment as well.

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