Another day is about to come to an end, but not without HyperLINKS! Jeff Vance writes about the future of VMWare The Gmail outage continues to be reported on with Larry Dignan noting the instability of web services and clouds John Suit examines the question, “Is Virtualization the “Cloud” of the Enterprise?”

Monday’s HyperLINKS…A LinuxWorld recap, while cloud computing is creating another storm “Private clouds“….the newest branch of cloud computing for IT departments Gartner analysts link cloud computing with the hype cycle Derrick Harris gives his LinuxWorld wrap up

A bit dated, but I finally got a break from conferences to watch all the great videos that were made about CloudStatus. Amazon AWS Loves CloudStatus.com, Here’s The Proof (Hyperic Video 2/2) from Toon Vanagt on Vimeo. My favorite is Virtualization.com’s for a few reasons: Trav still had the mohawk in that video. Yes, people [...]

TGIF!  Here are today’s HyperLINKS.  Have a great weekend and we will see you back here on Monday More coverage from the Google Gmail downage as Clint Boulton reports on the outage James Maguire looks at some of the dangers of cloud computing IBM executives call on the open source community to do more to [...]

Thursday’s topics…Dell case lingers on, Gmail shines a bad light on the cloud Google outage causes frustration with the Cloud US Patent Office decides to drag Dell’s case back under examination School’s in session for cloud computing

Mid-Week HyperLINKS…The Cloud is still too shady for some A Newsweek article points out that there are plenty of storms within the Cloud Dell faces a setback in the case of patenting “cloud computing” IBM research finds that virtualization is helping to revive Linux, putting it into the high end status

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…LinuxWorld coverage rolling in, Cloud Computing discussion continues IBM has full confidence in the cloud, investing $360 million into the service Mike Gunderloy questions the boundaries of open source A plethora of companies express growing interest on the cloud

Happy Monday! Today marks the first day of LinuxWorld and we will be watching the show closely this week to bring you its headlines. Now without further ado, here are today’s HyperLINKS: Dan Kusnetzky prepares for future posts from LinuxWorld and outlines the meaning of virtualization Cloud Computing is making waves in the world…Merrill Lynch [...]

Every year InfoWorld recognizes the top free and open products for business, IT, and personal productivity for the Best of Open Source Software, the BOSSIES. Chosen by InfoWorld Test Center editors, analysts, and reviewers, InfoWorld’s annual Best of Open Source Software awards (or Bossies, for short) celebrate the best products that open source has to [...]

Your favorite open source based monitoring and management suite just got sweeter. After working with the Xensource/Citrix team for two years, Hyperic HQ now supports Citrix Xen Server, giving customers a 360 degree view into their Xen-frastructure. “With the rapid proliferation of virtualized infrastructure, effectively managing virtual resources is critical to successfully realizing consolidation benefits [...]

Friday the first…Everyone, everywhere trying to claim the cloud Dell puts dibs on “cloud computing” as trademark Who will dominate the cloud? Allan Leinwand thinks the answer is a decade away Mike Gunderloy writes that architecture will hold precedence over licensing laws with open source and the cloud…Tim O’Reilly provides input with his own essay

The end of July brings new possibilities of an open source cloud The industry is still talking about the Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo announcement. InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder adds his take to the news 451 Group releases their CAOS Theory, reporting the increase of community Linux distributions Here it comes! The virtual sprawl is hitting Wall [...]

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 [...]

Mid-week HyperLINKS bring cloud coverage and virtualization to the surface The Yankee Group foresees virtualization as the solution for corporate enterprises Matthew Aslett raises a good question for the future…who will be the first to establish an open source cloud? More and more companies drifting into the cloud…eBay is in the works of creating a [...]

Lots of moving and shaking today and we are not just talking about the earthquake in Southern California. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering with governments and academic institutions to create an open source cloud computing test bed with six distributed centers Gunjan Trivedi offers a great analysis of cloud computing [...]

In today’s HyperLINKS…Amazon gets to the bottom of S3 outage Michael Krigsman of ZDNet writes on Amazon’s analysis of their service failure, calling their post-mortem “mature” A Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates the likelihood of significant decreases in IT jobs, both with in-house and contract staff Forbes’ Bob Worrall discusses the need for more [...]

We just found out that Hyperic has been nominated for two, count ‘em two, LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. Hyperic HQ is in the running for Best System Management tool and our newest product, the CloudStatus.com cloud monitor, is nominated for Best Clustering or Grid Solution. Hopefully you’ll be able to attend the LinuxWorld Conference and [...]

I decided that there is way too much to recap in one post, so I will summarize a single day at OSCON. Told in the style of television’s “24″. Hyperbole added to incriminate the guilty. OSCON — Portland — 7/23 – 7/24 The following happened between 6:00p – 8:00p (7/23) It was a long day. [...]

OSCON comes to a close while System Administrators are celebrated Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller posted a CloudStatus demo video and interview with engineer Jon Travis. Stacey Higginbotham writes about VC’s increasing interest in the cloud, mentioning Hyperic as an option for monitoring Denise Dubie highlights today’s Sys Admin holiday Dan Kusnetzky ponders on the question, “If [...]

On this most hallowed and revered holiday, we decided to salute the unsung and often unwashed heroes of IT the only way we know how… by poking a little fun at the Real Men of Geekness. So, here’s to you, Mr. Underappreciated Sys Admin Guy (or Gal).

OSCON news continues…But the “Spam King” is not forgotten Penny stock “Spam King” flees prison by foot, deciding he had had enough of his stay Tim O’Reilly’s speech at OSCON determines that the future must be “open,” in particular with Cloud Computing, Open Web and Mobile Serdar Yegulalp of InformationWeek interviews Jim Zemlin of the [...]

Lots of news coming out of OSCON today, but we’ll start HyperLINKS with some additional S3 outage coverage and a CloudStatus reference. 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 In more S3 outage news, Fortune’s Michal Lev-Ram talks [...]

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…OUCH! Tarus at OpenNMS talks about Dave Hustace’s new project, OUCH to be revealed at LinuxWorld. OUCH stands for OpenNMS-Ubuntu-Concursive-Hyperic <grin> TechCrunch is planning to use open source to create their own web tablet device, essentially creating a source similar to a desktop Jack M. Germain writes about the security concerns facing VMs

Big outages means big news! Yesterday’s Amazon S3 outage is continuing to make headlines today. Richard MacManus of Read Write Web reveals the many consequences of Amazon’s S3 downtime and raises the question of security within the cloud In a special report on virtualization, Gartner says virtualization is the highest-impact issue changing infrastructure and operations [...]

At 8:46 PDT this morning, CloudStatus reported that several of the AWS services were experiencing outages. Amazon posted that they were aware of the issue at 9:05 PDT on status.aws.amazon.com. We saw internal server errors coming from the majority of our S3 and SQS monitoring agents. In addition, we experienced other problems with EC2 (many [...]