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 complete [...]

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 out [...]

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 of [...]