Hyperic Wins EMA’s First Team All-Star Award

January 22nd, 2008 Stacey Schneider

Today I learned that Hyperic won Enterprise Management Associate’s Award for Open Source Systems Management. What’s more, we discovered that we won the top slot, what EMA calls the ‘First Team All-Star’ position. The idea here is that all teams have a starting lineup, or ‘First Team’ and then a series of reserves, which is the second tier of this award review, simply known as ‘All-Stars’, and a rookie group of rising potentials for the category known as ‘Rising Stars’.

The award was granted by Andi Mann, a vice president of research over at EMA. Hyperic has a direct relationship with EMA, so I got a chance to review Andi’s write-up, which was quite a treat. Andi’s perspective on the crowded and somewhat turbulent management space is always spot on. (I didn’t need this award to know that either!) We talk often and discuss big picture issues of the evolving needs of this market space we work in. Particularly, Andi loves talking about how virtualization and the increasing need for agility in the data center are changing the basic requirements for management. To that end I am very flattered he recognized us for leading with innovation (part of the write-up, but copyright prevents me from copy-pasting it here - so you are just going to have to believe me!).

In fact, we’re getting pretty excited to start innovating even more — 3.2 is about ready to be shipped, and the engineers here are starting to push the ideas for 4.0 (our summer release) really hard. I won’t get too far ahead of myself here - but rest assured, and Andi and his compatriot, Steve Brasen shall be part of that endeavor. Perhaps during that time I shall also have to ask Andi what other details the survey unveiled. I hear we scored the highest in customer satisfaction for Performance and Availability… but I don’t know what other categories there were!

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