Hyperic & OpenNMS - Better Together

March 6th, 2008 Stacey Schneider

I am very excited to have finally formalized our relationship with the Order of the Green Polo, the folks that run OpenNMS. This new partnership and product roadmap highlights the right answer to many questions mulling around our industry.

1. Systems Management Taxonomy - Systems Management is a BIG term. It has many disciplines within it. We have application management, systems management, provisioning, network management, configuration management, and the list goes on. The reality is most people think it encompasses application, system and network management. Hyperic does a great job up in the application and systems level - especially for custom-built, heterogeneous stack web-based infrastructure. We do some level of Network management, but it is small potatoes compared to OpenNMS. A public announcement and partnership (not to mention blog posts) will make more people understand quickly that we’re very different - and they need us both!
2. Customers need Hyperic & OpenNMS - smart customers have realized how complimentary we are for a while. They’ve been implementing our products side by side the hard way - trying to figure out how to work with each company and who to engage to get the work done. And paying, either with dollars or time & effort spent, integrating our products. We’ve seen it enough times, and we’ve responded to the community at large - we’re committed to making this easier.
3. Why Hyperic & OpenNMS are seen so often together - At conferences, in our offices, at customers and maybe even over a few margaritas… we’ve gotten to know Tarus, Dave & the OpenNMS gang pretty well over the past year. Personally, I have found them to be incredible veterans of the industry - equally part sage and sarcastic, they keep working the hardest problems because they have such tremendous passion for it. I have had a chance to meet with several of their customers as well, and they share that enthusiasm for all things OpenNMS. And being such masters of their domain, I view their endorsement of Hyperic HQ as one of the biggest public compliments we can have. And to that, on behalf of Hyperic, I say thank you!

And if you’d like to see and hear more about what this partnership has in store for our communities, please join Dave & Charles next Tuesday at 11 am PST for our HyperCAST. Or read Dave’s whitepaper on the integration.

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