If you’ll be joining us at OSCON this year, be sure and check out the Evolution of Community panel featuring yours truly.
Over the past ten years, nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of communities has been the driving force in how we work and live today. But what’s next? For open source developers, what has to happen to maintain and grow the communities they’ve built? What happens to communities when successful projects are acquired by big corporate behemoths? What happens to communities when their projects fail?
After the long weekend, HyperLINKS are back! Here are today’s top stories:
InfoWorld’s Ephraim Schwartz writes about the lack of standardization and security for the cloud
And in more cloud news, George Crump writes about cloud storage, mentioning that storage solutions will need to be able to scale, as well as be reliable as companies will begin to solely operate from the cloud
Hot off its record number of downloads for Firefox3, Mozilla.org, are already looking ahead to its next versions
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Hyperic CEO, Javier Soltero explains the cloudy nature of distributed computing during his Velocity keynote. When there’s an outage, and there will be, is it your application? Or the Cloud? Javier unveils CloudStatus.com and takes the audience on a test drive.
The Velocity Conference was a sold out show with many of the sessions being standing room only. We met face-to-face with many of our customers and community members, some of which came all the way from Europe for the event.
If you’re a user, developer or partner looking to customize HQ, then you need to check out the HQU developer’s guide. Learn how to extend the HQ portal, automate HQ functions and integrate HQ with other sytems. It’s totally groovy.
Plugin of the Month - Cisco Content Services Switch
This Hyperic HQ plugin monitors Cisco CSS Interface and Cisco CSS Service of a Cisco Content Services Switch with SNMP. Check for availability throughput and utilization. The plug in was developed by Ernst-Jan Verhoeven and Aljoscha Vorst at the University of Amsterdam, and AmsterDAM it’s a fine plugin.
(disclaimer: we cannot vouch or provide support for this plugin)
Congrats to Ernst-Jan and Aljoscha! As a reward, we will provide them with a $250 gift certificate.
Our engineers have been publishing iterations–pre-alpha versions of code–on SourceForge.net. If you’re very curious and love to tinker and hack on developmental code, take a look:
This afternoon we get another data point showing that despite the exciting promise of cloud computing, the realities of managing large scale infrastructure insist on rearing their ugly heads. TechCrunch is reporting that Google Apps had an outage today which caused the service to be completely down.
There’s two serious problems with this outage:
1- The reports of service outages arrive long after anyone who depends on the services can possibly do anything to mitigate their effect.
2- The services themselves seem incapable of providing any visibility into the circumstances that might lead to future outages.
From time to time, I think about what the definition of a small company is vs a big company. Many know I came from Siebel, a big company that was swallowed up by an even bigger company Oracle. I have been at Hyperic for a couple years now, and when I started we were assuredly small. 13 people and one plant small. Since then, we’ve hit many milestones to consider ourselves almost mid-sized… but today was a new one.
Marty Messer, our esteemed Director of Customer Success has been recently deluged with the same request from some of our top customers, “do you know anybody we can hire?”
I just saw that Atlassian, the provider of the essential community tools like Confluence wiki and JIRA ticket system, updated their wiki on the importance of monitoring the “lifeblood of your organization”.
They even outline the important monitoring tasks you need, and stress that it will help when dealing with their own world class support.
Monitoring involves a number of essential tasks, including those listed below:
Monitoring log files.
Checking for HTTP-availability and performance (e.g. by getting the same page every five minutes and displaying the time on a graph).
Joe Hernick from InfoWorld released a new report today with some surprising data. The New Sprawl: Managing Virtual Server Environments, published today, Joe announced that only 2% of the 323 InfoWorld Respondents were using a virtualization management strategy that reconciled the physical to the virtual servers (P2V). A whopping 27% were using a “wink and a prayer”. All the others were using various tools that provide a partial view at best of their environment behavior.
Once again, SourceForge.net is holding its annual community choice awards. As a former SourceForge.net worker bee, it’s great to be able to utilize what we built at VA Linux all those years ago.
So, if you’re a fan of Hyperic HQ - and if you’re not, you really should be - nominate us in one of the categories. Click the image to the left, and the rest is up to you!
From time to time, I think about what the definition of a small company is vs a big company. Many know I came from Siebel, a big company that was swallowed up by an even bigger company Oracle. I have been at Hyperic for a couple years now, and when I started we were assuredly small. 13 people and one plant small. Since then, we’ve hit many milestones to consider ourselves almost mid-sized… but today was a new one.
I just saw that Atlassian, the provider of the essential community tools like Confluence wiki and JIRA ticket system, updated their wiki on the 
