Friday’s HyperLINKS…Cloud computing is questioned but also praised as a new service to the military Richard Martin writes about the control over the cloud…how secure is corporate data when it is managed by an unknown virtual source? Om Malik reminds us that although we survived the dot-com bust in Silicon Valley, we should be aware [...]

In HyperLINKS today…San Francisco computer hacker causes chaos for administrators, while cloud coverage continues to float on the web Distressed San Francisco network administrator pleads “not guilty” to computer tampering, an incident that will cost $250,000 to repair Bruce Guptill and William S. McNee write about the evolution of SaaS and cloud computing Phil Wainewright [...]

Hump Day HyperLINKS bring CloudStatus interviews and discussion of virtualization as mainstream Tom Sullivan of InfoWorld questions whether single-vendor open source is getting too risky Paolo Del Nibletto speaks with Forrester Research Analyst Frank Gillett about virtualization evolving into a mainstream market Robin Miller of Linux.com and Slashdot  interviews our very own Jon Travis on [...]

CloudStatus coverage continues while disgruntled San Franciscan blocks FiberWAN access… Hot off the press! Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer covers the CloudStatus announcement John Leyden writes about a peeved employee who blocked access to FiberWAN network, causing an uproar among San Francisco officials Glyn Moody discusses how cloud computers are deemed as “free [...]

Cloud coverage discussion still buzzing in today’s HyperLINKS… Some more news from Google Doc’s recent downtime…Stephen Shankland writes about the downtime, and the potential problems of applications moving to the cloud More discussion on the risks of cloud computing…Dennis Barker outlines the details Forrester research concludes that Europeans appreciate low costs but question the support [...]

Apple 3G iPhone is now available…the whole tech world has “almost” stopped More CloudStatus coverage…Stephen Shankland writes about cloud trust issues, includes Hyperic’s CloudStatus in the article with some quotes from Stacey In other news, Joe McKendrick writes about raised expectations for cloud computing, warning that vendors may not be able to deliver or meet [...]

Some more big news coming out of Yahoo! today. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: Larry Dignan writes about Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search Baseline’s Ericka Chickowski provides 10 steps towards simplifying systems management WashingtonPost.com says [...]

Happy Hump Day! Here are today’s headlines that we have been reading: Stories about Diane Greene departure from VMware keep on coming. Richard Adhikari writes about the shakedown at VMware, including assessment of the problems that contributed to Green’s departure In other news, Linda Tucci offers five reasons as to why cloud computing will continue [...]

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 [...]

Very interesting headlines in today’s HyperLINKS. Here are Tuesday’s tidbits: VMware’s CEO and co-founder, Diane Green, has been let go and Paul Maritz (a former Microsoft Exec) is replacing her Larry Dignan writes about a study that has shown the staggering rise in enterprise IT investment since 1994, from $3.5k per employee then, to $8k [...]

It’s time for a new addition to the HQ 3.2 family.  HQ 3.2.4 is now available and ready for download. This release is a roll-up of the bug fixes since HQ 3.2.3. For a rundown of the fixes available in HQ 3.2.4, check out the Release Notes for the high level summary and a link [...]

It looks like Google Apps suffered a brief outage this morning. How did we find out? Well, from Valleywag of course. After all, the best place to get the status of key cloud based applications and infrastructure is also the same place where you can find out the latest gossip about the valley. Seems natural, [...]

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 [...]

Celebrate Independence Day with a fully (legally) unbricked smart phone. Starting July 4th, OpenMoko will begin selling it’s Neo FreeRunner for $399. The software is 100% free and open source. For an additional $99 you can get the Debug Board and really get up in its guts. VGA touchscreen, 500MHz, 128M RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, AGPS, [...]

We hope you have a fun and safe 4th of July weekend! HyperLINKS will be taking a break tomorrow but we will be back on Monday. Now, here are today’s top stories: Mozilla has broken the Guinness World Records for its record number of downloads. The official number of downloads stands at 8,002,530 According to [...]

Another very cloudy news day. Here are today’s top picks: Big news to start off HyperLINKS. Microsoft has announced that it has bought semantic search engine, Powerset Tom Kaneshige of InfoWorld writes about Google’s long road to the enterprise through its Google Apps According to a new Gartner study, email will move to the cloud, [...]

Happy first day of July!  Here are Tuesday’s tidbits: Stacey Higginbotham lists ten reasons why Enterprises are not quite ready to trust the cloud (Security and reliability are two reasons listed) Brian Krebs of the Washington Post blogs on a recent cloud “dilemma” about the number of spam emails he received in his inbox that [...]

HyperLINKS have been going strong for officially one month now and we hope you have enjoyed reading them! Now, without further ado here are today’s top stories: In his wrap-up from last week’s Structure Conference, Dennis Barker writes about cloud computing, and mentions Hyperic’s CloudStatus as one of the best management tools around to help [...]

TGIF! As another week comes to a close, here our today’s HyperLINKS: Hyperic OEM partner, SpringSource, receives $15 million in funding from Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital Gartner claims that cloud computing will be as influential as when the internet was being leveraged for e-business Upon Yahoo’s creation of their “Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure [...]

Nicholas Negroponte gives a TED talk about the first two years of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Even in it’s infancy it has created and made use of some truly amazing innovations: runs on less than 2W of manually rechargeable power powerful mesh networking capabilities dual mode display (works in direct sunlight) open [...]

Hyperic Launches CloudStatus Hyperic is pleased to extend the capabilities of Hyperic HQ with cloud monitoring. Use CloudStatus to monitor your Amazon AWS cloud performance. Part the Clouds Learn More Clouds Are No Substitute For Competence Hyperic CEO, Javier Soltero explains the cloudy nature of distributed computing during his Velocity keynote. When there’s an outage, [...]

Cloud computing continues to dominate attention, some noteworthy news: Yahoo announced today that it has created a Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure group From the better-late-than-never department, Microsoft (finally) releases its Hyper-V hypervisor to compete with VMware and Citrix At the Red Hat Summit, Jim Whitehurst encouraged users of open source to stop hoarding for [...]

GigaOm’s Structure Conference took center stage today and lots of interesting stories are coming down the pipeline. Here are today’s top picks: While participating on a panel at Structure titled “Working the Cloud: NetGen Infrastructure for New Entrepreneurs ,” Google’s Christophe Bisciglia, was forced by several other panelists to defend the openness of BigTable, Google’s [...]

The Velocity Conference wrapped up yesterday. It was a sold out show – and just the kind of crowd that we like to see! The whole conference was based on web operations, and the conference goers were very enthusiastic. Many of the sessions were standing room only. It was personally great for me to be [...]

The day is winding down for us in San Francisco, but not without HyperLINKS. Here are today’s top stories: Daniel Brusilovsky stopped by our booth at Velocity and interviewed the team regarding CloudStatus. Check out his podcast here In other news, IBM has opened up two new cloud computing centers, one in South Africa and [...]