I’ve written in the past about how enterprise management vendors can act as “Gatekeepers of the Datacenter” by virtue of what technologies they do or don’t support as part of their management solutions. This rather lame dynamic is a big part of the reason why a lot of otherwise great technologies dont make it all the way into the traditional enterprise.
Add comment November 19th, 2007 javier
Almost a week late but for those of you who were curious about our Wii challenge…
Last week, some of the best and brightest open source companies in the bay area congregated at Hyperic Headquarters, and played a spirited game of Wii Tennis to vie for the title of Open Source Champion and its prize: The Golden Racket.
The title gives it away, Hyperic won. Specifically, Scott Feldstein (aka scottmf) rose to the occasion and took the prize:
Add comment November 7th, 2007 javier
Well, we were expecting our good friends from MuleSource to show up tomorrow. As it turns out, they’ve asked for a postponement in order to accomodate the arrival of Dave’s tag-team partner Ross. Not sure how much Wii Tennis Ross is bringing to the fold, but we’ll be more than happy to give them more time to practice. In the meantime the teams from Jasper, Marketcetera, and others will also be given a bye week to polish their game.
Watch for an updated date and time on the evite.
See you next week sports fans.
3 comments October 24th, 2007 javier
Some days feel like walking nightmares to the ops folks that power the websites we all take for granted. I’m sure the folks at 365 Main enjoyed their 24 hour outage crisis. Skype’s outage became a worldwide headline for 3 days. Not all website outages are headliners, but all of them are painful for the men and women in the trenches fighting those fires.
2 comments October 16th, 2007 javier
Hyperic customer deployments are growing at a tremendous pace - they’re scaling out managing thousands of resources with 10s of thousands of metrics and events being tracked every minute. In this kind of environment, scale is an absolute requirement and something that takes sound technical architecture, talented engineering, and most of all, maturity in the software. It’s also one of those things you can’t just claim on your marketing materials without having evidence to back it up. One of Hyperic’s main benefits is that it provides a single web-based view into your entire set of devices, machines, applications, and services. It also empowers the user to decide what should or shouldnt be collected, and how frequently. It’s our softwares job to handle the workload, regardless of how demainding it might be on the HQ server. In this upcoming release, we’ve spent significant time expanding the capacity for the HQ Server to manage more and consume less resources. We set some aggressive performance benchmarks to allow our users to be able to manage at scale even with limited hardware resources. Truly a technical challenge that has motivated our engineering team to deliver awesome results.
4 comments September 13th, 2007 javier
What a great name for an award… punchy, accurate acronym along with an irresistible pun! We found out this morning that Hyperic was listed among the 4 ‘finalists’ of the award. Despite Infoworld’s decision not to publish a winner until they finish deeper reviews of each product, we’re eager to see the results. In the meantime, I can’t resist commenting on the lead point of the article. Namely, the fact that the press and analyst community continues to ring the “Us vs. the Big 4″ bell whenever the topic of IT Management comes up. The reason for this is understandable… the David vs. Goliath setup is hard to resist in a $9B marketplace dominated by 4 entrenched players. What’s missing in this analysis, and that of most people who look at the management space, is the fact that the reason why this space is interesting is because the problem itself changes constantly and habitually refuses to conform to a single standard (it’s been attempted more times than I can count).
Add comment September 10th, 2007 javier
Hyperic days are generally very full days. So I sympathize with Dave Rosenberg’s apathy for blogging some days. Generally when I blog, I prefer to discuss a unique perspective on a meaningful topic that is relevant to today’s greater conversation. I have lots of these thoughts every day. What I don’t have is time.
When I do have time, I no longer feel the story is as interesting as when I first had the idea. Invariably, someone else has beaten the topic to death or changed the course of discussion.
1 comment September 6th, 2007 javier
Skype’s outage this morning (and the ensuing uproar from it’s dedicated users) served as yet another example of how a critical online service is under constant risk of upsetting its users and losing business due. While the true cause of the outage has not been officially communicated by the folks at Skype, it’s precisely these types of events which keep the wheels turning over here at Hyperic. First, it was the airlines with their mysterious computer glitches freezing the skies. Then, it was the power outage/rumored drunken ops guy at 365 Main. Then Cisco’s site was down. Then this week, the LAX halted the airline industry again with a single faulty NIC card. It seems like there’s a trend here…
5 comments August 17th, 2007 javier
Huge news today. Citrix has agreed to acquire XenSource for a whopping $500 Million dollars. In the wake of this news, I figured I’d offer some commentary and a perspective.
First, as a sister investment company (XenSource and Hyperic are backed by Accel Partners and share Larry Augustin as a board member), I am excited for them and their new prospects. They’ve done an outstanding job of going pedal-to-the-metal and delivering a stand-out product and an exceptional valuation to their employees and investors. I wish them all the best with the new opportunities in this next chapter of growth. XenSource has ambitious plans and a ripe market opportunity, and their newly minted relationship with Citrix will ideally enable it to compete even more effectively in this emerging market.
1 comment August 15th, 2007 javier
I am very pleased to announce, that among all the systems management vendors who are going to be at Linux World, the event producers, IDG World Expo, and the judging staff from LinuxWorld.com, have selected Hyperic HQ 3.1, as a finalist for the Best Systems Management Tool Award. This is especially exciting as it is further proof that our newest release, Hyperic HQ 3.1, is going to meet the demands of some of the keenest eyes out there in software.
As for who else was selected, we are in a class with some very respectable competition:
1 comment August 3rd, 2007 javier
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