Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Now Available!
Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Enterprise are now available! This version features the hot new HQU Plugin framework and the first stages of OpenNMS integration. Also new is an MSI installer for Windows and RPM’s for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.
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Introducing HQU Plugins
HQU gives operations the ability to automate tasks and create new UI views for HQ. Written in Groovy, HQU plugins can be easily shared and hot-deployed in live Hyperic HQ environments. HQU applications include:
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April 3rd, 2008
John Mark
[via the good folks at Engadget]
This has to be the most unique use of data center energy ever devised. It seems IBM has opted to use excess heat from a new facility in Uitikon, Switzerland to heat a nearby swimming pool.
Use this:

To warm this:

The article from the AP states:
In a few cases, the heat produced by the computers is used to warm nearby offices. In what appears to be a first, the town pool in Uitikon, Switzerland, outside Zurich, will be the beneficiary of the waste heat from a data center recently built by IBM Corp. for GIB-Services AG.
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April 3rd, 2008
javier