Hyperic Newsletter - July, 2008
Join With Other Hypericans on LinkedIn!
We have a new group on LinkedIn, and you’re invited to join now!
OSCON, 2008
OSCON was a blast this year, as usual. Every year, Portland becomes ground zero for free and open source companies and advocates. Sessions, panels, BoFs and parties. Hyperic sponsored the Community Choice Awards, and Robin Miller has the video to prove it!
Come See Us at LinuxWorld
Hyperic will be at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo all next week–8/4-8/7. Hyperic CEO, Javier Soltero, will be presenting “Virtual Nightmare? Mastering the Management of Virtualization in Production.” with Mosso co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Register using our priority code: VPL368 and get free exhibit hall access or 20% off conference pricing.
And the Nominees Are…
Speaking of LinuxWorld, Hyperic is nominated for the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. Twice. Hyperic HQ is a finalist in the “Best Systems Management” category, which it won last year. Hyperic’s newest product CloudStatus is a finalist for “Best Grid or Clustering Solution”. Only a few weeks old and already running with the big dogs.
CloudStatus Review
If you haven’t had a chance to take a closer look at CloudStatus, you can get the low down from this video/demo/interview posted at Linux.com. See what CloudStatus can do, and meet CloudStatus principal engineer, Jon Travis.
Upcoming and Archived HyperCASTs
Be sure to tune in to this months amazing and informative webinars:
- MySQL Enterprise and Hyperic HQ - How can Software as a Service (SaaS) providers and Managed Hosting Providers ensure service level agreements with a combination of MySQL Enterprise and Hyperic HQ? Tuesday, August 05, 2008, 10:00 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
- Citrix Xen and Hyperic HQ - How to monitor and manage Citrix Xen with Hyperic HQ. Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 8:00 am PST, 11:00 am EST
If you’ve never seen any of our HyperCASTs, we have built a library of archives. Some of the recent ones include:
Hyperic HQ Iterations for 4.0
It won’t be long now. The 4.0 release is nearly upon us. Between now and launch, your window into the future of HQ is:
Best of the Blog
- 24 Hours at OSCON. - Jeremy Hogan’s gonzo OSCON re-cap.
- Real Men of Geekness. - A little audio tribute we did for Sysadmin Appreciation Day.
- CloudStatus and AWS - CloudStatus reported a major outage a full 20 minutes before it was posted to Amazon’s system status.
- Who needs monitoring? - You do. Because you’d probably prefer to find out about cloud outages sometime before it hit the news.
Hyperic in the News
- Stacey Higginbotham writes about VC’s increasing interest in the cloud, mentioning Hyperic as an option for monitoring.
- Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer puts in her two cents about the S3 outage, and even includes quotes from Hyperic’s Jon Travis
- Exciting news from the Adventure of Open Source blog, as OpenNMS announces OUCH, a new integration standing for OpenNMS, Ubuntu, Concursive and Hyperic
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