Hyperic Gets Props from Virtualization Journal Readers

March 20th, 2008 Stacey Schneider

Sys-Con just announced that Hyperic HQ has been nominated for this summer’s Reader’s Choice Awards. The category we were nominated for is Best Virtualization Platforms Monitoring & Reporting. The nomination process is open until Sunday June 22nd, and the voting period will be until November 15. The final results will be at the upcoming 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.

It’s of course always nice to be recognized as a contentious player in any market segment, but in this case I find the exact category really interesting. You see, there are several Virtualization Management Categories:

1. Best Virtualization Configuration Management
2. Best Virtualization Management Tools
3. Best Virtualization Platforms Monitoring & Reporting
4. BestVM Lifecycle Management

I think this is perhaps the first time in the history of awards for the “Systems Management” category that actually breaks out these very different disciplines instead of lumping them in together. This can be for one of two reasons:

1. Virtualization Journal Readers are smarter than the average bear
2. Virtualization as a technology and an industry has successfully disrupted a tired, old industry plagued by incumbents & realizes that the application of these disciplines to the complex environments leveraging virtualization have no expectation of being satisfied by a monolithic approach.

The second, longer point is pretty interesting. It also puts in perspective how important all disciplines of management are for virtualized environments. 4 out of 18 categories are on management alone. This is something Hyperic has been talking about for some time (check out our whitepaper or our virtualization best practices webinar for more). But it is really good to see the industry is putting the focus on it too.

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