I would like to issue a hearty congratulations to the App Engine team on their recent announcements of quota and dashboard improvements.  We work with many, many software teams, and out of them all, the App Engine team stands out as a bunch of folks excited about making web application development easier, and pushing the [...]

After almost 12 months of design and development, I am proud to announce the general availability of HQ 4.0! Now past its 5th year of production usage, it’s incredibly cool for me to see how this product has evolved from what we conceived back in 2002. With the help of hundreds of customers and thousands [...]

Paul McDonald and the App Engine Team spent some time gathering some video case studies of developers who have created scalable web applications on Google’s App Engine. Included are Dave Westwood of BuddyPoke, Charles Ying from PixVerse, and of course – Hyperic’s own Jon Travis on CloudStatus:

IDC confirmed my amateur predictions that the current economic turmoil will indeed be very good for those looking to the cloud. Both from a user perspective, as well as a vendor perspective. In fact, IDC’s Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst, is predicting adoption will accelerate due to market pressures in a recent [...]

The scariest part of today’s economic turmoil is how preventable it was. I am not talking about additional supervision of an uncontrolled finance sector. While the sub-prime market was risky and obviously short-sighted, the overall laws of supply and demand eventually punish those who take unnecessary risks. What is more irresponsible and scary is the [...]

Cloud Computing has been a much used and misunderstood term. You know its become mainstream when it attracts pundits of the caliber of Larry Ellison, who last week confessed his own confusion during an anti-cloud computing rant: Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s [...]

Hyperic 4.0 Beta 4 We are one release closer to the launch of 4.0! Hyperic HQ 4.0 is designed for greater ease of implementation, management and scale. It also features a swank new UI, a new API, JMX MBean Query tool and more plugins. If you’re thinking about deploying 4.0, you can start testing it [...]

It’s no secret that Hyperic is a web-driven open source project and business. All our web properties from hyperic.com, to the wiki, forums and support are invaluable resources for us and our users. When we first started, we managed all these properties ourselves. In fact, as many scrappy startups do – they all started on [...]

It seems like ages since I’ve had the time to blog about Hyperic. Some is due to the addition of the far more eloquent and far more entertaining Jeremy Hogan as the voice of our community. But more it seems that growth is ironically reducing my capacity to cover all the new topics. I was [...]

Don’t be the last on your block to check out the 4.0 Beta! The Beta 2 builds are now available – go and get ‘em here. Don’t forget to check out Jeremy’s Beta Program Overview HyperCAST and log your 4.0 Beta Bugs in the Bugs Forum. Remember – those who bug stomp win some hot [...]

At this years annual JavaOne conference SYS-CON TV sat down with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic to find out more about Hyperic’s world-class monitoring solutions. SYS-CON.TV is a unique multimedia resource enabled by Flash video which allows them to bring timely interviews, news, expert panels, and features on all that’s new and all that’s best [...]

I really hate to trump Marty’s stellar 3.2.5 release blog so soon after he crafted it, but today we launch the Hyperic HQ 4.0 Beta Program. That’s right, 4 dot Oh-My-Stars-and-Garters, this is some sweet suite. This is a community initiative, geared to stomp as many bugs out of the 4.0 Beta as we can [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 3.2 family. HQ 3.2.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 3.2 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 3.2.4. Go get it! To find out what goodness 3.2.5 brings (and there’s a lot [...]

Hyperic 3.2.5! The latest release of Hyperic HQ, 3.2.5, is live and chock full of the good stuff. Notable changes and additions include: Changes in a platform’s fully qualified domain name are autodiscovered, the new JMX console allows you to display and control MBeans and troubleshoot JVM issues, script actions for alerts, metric display auto-reset [...]

Dear valued and loyal HyperLINKS reader, That day we thought would never come, is upon us. The day when we decide to move from daily HyperLINKS posts, to weekly HyperLINKS posts. Please join us in solemn reverence and remembrance. Now enjoy this, your final daily dose of HyperLINKS. Business execs vs. IT professionals…how do they [...]

Today’s HyperLINKS…Important things to remember and be aware of with the cloud More security issues afloat in the cloud Margaret Lewis predicts that there will be complications in the future of virtualization Gordon Haff reminds us not to forget latency when it comes to cloud computing

TGIF! Here are today’s HyperLINKS: Arthur Cole from IT Business Edge writes an interesting post about the advent of application virtualization, its merits and pitfalls Dan Lohrmann from Government Technology offers advice on how to secure the cloud Dion Hinchcliffe writes an insightful post about Amazon’s announcement of EBS and how it is a step [...]

Thursday’s HyperLINKS bring new developments in the cloud The cloud keeps expanding…Amazon’s EBC reveals new possibilities for the cloud VMware feature continues to float under the radar

CloudStatus Google App Engine is released…let the coverage roll in! Om Malik is the first to post on the CloudStatus announcement! Gartner releases its annual spending report…the forecast looks “cloudy” Though VMware and Microsoft are direct competitors, for the time being they are putting their qualms aside in the name of good business

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…Virtualization liscensing about to go underway Microsoft making some major changes to its’ liscensing program Some interesting insight to cloud computing in the Seattle P-I…with a mention of Hyperic’s involvement Get ready…the Xen Community is about to release it’s next feature for review

Monday’s HyperLINKS…Open Source receives some well-deserved recognition No “cloud computing” for Dell…case closed Business Week recognizes open source at Red Hat convention Dan Woods takes a trip down the open source memory lane

Dave was kind enough to invite me to guest post on his blog at CNET about the subject of operations and the cloud. For those who dont regularly read Dave’s blog, here’s the post in its entirety… The separation of Cloud offerings around consumption of resources versus consumption of applications makes a lot of sense. [...]

Almost time for the weekend, but not without HyperLINKS! Dana Blankenhorn names virtualization “the secret sauce of the cloud” and Firefox as the threat to open source Gmail users aren’t catching a break with another outage complication Sarah Perez raises the question…is there more security with traditional computing?

In today’s LINKS…Open Source networks officially under protection It’s official…court ruling states that open source will be protected under copyright law Dave Rosenberg creates two buckets of the cloud to help place your enterprise into Server outages cause a distrust in the cloud

Hump Day HyperLINKS…Private clouds and Hype Cycles abound Fidelity Investments is aiming to virtualize its server Gartner releases the Hype Cycle, outlining important technology trends to pay attention to John Foley examines the private cloud