Why Are These Sysadmins Smiling?

I love my job. For those that don’t know me too well, I have the privilege of looking after all outbound activity here at Hyperic. In that capacity I get to interact with the community, customers, press and analysts. Sometimes all at once. Thing is, I don’t get to see them that often – its [...]

[ More ] February 7th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Hyperic HQ |

Clouds Are No Substitute For Competence

This morning I came across an AP article on Yahoo news calling out Amazon’s ‘cloud computing’ initiatives. The all-too-clever title “Amazon’s Hot New Item: its data center” caught my attention and I wanted to see the folks at AP take a crack at the topic. The article seemed innocent enough until I ran into this [...]

[ More ] February 2nd, 2008 | 6 Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

All in the Family

News hit today that Covalent Technologies (or what I commonly refer to as Covalent 2.0) was acquired by SpringSource. This is an incredibly interesting piece of news since as most of you might have heard, Hyperic’s founding team met while working at the original Covalent (1.0). We also developed the first version of the HQ [...]

[ More ] January 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Javiers Blog |

Managing VMware: Tips & Tricks

I had the great pleasure of co-hosting one of Hyperic’s regular webinar series with Jonathan Bryce and Jason Bartels from Mosso. I have spent quite a bit of time with these guys over the past couple months, as Jonathan worked with me to build a case study. Through that experience, I became totally intrigued with [...]

[ More ] January 23rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, Webcasts |

Hyperic Wins EMA’s First Team All-Star Award

Today I learned that Hyperic won Enterprise Management Associate’s Award for Open Source Systems Management. What’s more, we discovered that we won the top slot, what EMA calls the ‘First Team All-Star’ position. The idea here is that all teams have a starting lineup, or ‘First Team’ and then a series of reserves, which is [...]

[ More ] January 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Hyperic Podcast: Talking Smack with Luke Kanies of Puppet

Luke Kanies, the brains behind Puppet, was kind enough to come by the Hyperic office a few days ago. A conversation ensued and was recorded. If you know Luke, then you know he’s full of ideas and well-stated opinions on the state of system administration and sysadmins. Our conversation ran the gamut from Puppet’s place [...]

[ More ] January 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Webcasts |

A Tale of Two Deals

What an incredible start to an otherwise unremarkable, mid-January day! First, the huge news about MySQL being acquired by Sun Microsystems… then the news about BEA being acquired by Oracle. The first deal is significant given the ‘imminent’ IPO that was expected by MySQL later this year. The second is significant if only because of [...]

[ More ] January 16th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Hyperic HQ is SourceForge.net January 2008 Project of the Month

Hyperic is pleased to accept the honor of having Hyperic HQ named as SourceForge.net’s project of the month for January 2008. The popular Hyperic HQ project has been hosted on Sourceforge.net since its launch just 18 months ago. With nearly 2 million registered users and more than 166,500 software projects, SourceForge.net is world’s largest Open [...]

[ More ] January 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Hyperic HQ, PRs |

New HyperCAST Archive: Nagios Integration

With the new Nagios plugin to be released with Hyperic HQ 3.2, we did a HyperCAST yesterday on its feature set and how to import an existing Nagios configuration. You can view the replay by clicking on the following link. Enjoy!

[ More ] January 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Webcasts |

Calling All Beta Testers: New Beta of HQ 3.2 Available

The 4th beta for Hyperic HQ 3.2 has been released! We’re about to wrap up the HQ 3.2 beta process, so if you haven’t kicked the tires yet, you have a limited time to do so. Speak now or forever hold your peace. See the release notes: http://support.hyperic.com/confluence/display/DOC/HQ+3.2+Release+Notes Download here: http://www.hyperic.com/downloads/dl-hq-beta.html After downloading, share your [...]

[ More ] January 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community, Hyperic HQ |

December Newsletter – New Partners & HQ for Nagios Users

Download Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta 3 Thousands of Hyperic community members have kicked the tires on Hyperic HQ 3.2. With Beta 3 released recently, take a test drive and experience firsthand what’s new in 3.2: Read more about HQ 3.2 betas See Charles Lee’s HyperCAST on What’s New in 3.2 Download the beta now! Not [...]

[ More ] January 2nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Newsletters |

Virtual Strategy Magazine Podcast on Hyperic and Mosso

Brian Ducharme from Virtual Strategy Magazine has posted a podcast featuring Jonathan Bryce of Mosso and Javier Soltero of Hyperic. You can find a summary of the podcast as well as an applet for playing it at virtual-strategy.com. Or you can use our player below to listen (or download). The podcast is licensed under a [...]

[ More ] December 21st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Community, IT Industry |

Parallel Feedback Loops: Integrating Your Community

The term innovation opportunity has been discussed by Matthew Aslett, who described it as “the potential to lower development costs for business users, while at the same time raising their potential to focus on innovative development.” This falls in line with the view that an open model is more efficient, but how exactly is it [...]

[ More ] December 18th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community, IT Industry |

Making Life Easier For Ops… One Day at a Time

It’s been a crazy week for us over here at Hyperic. We had partner announcements, board meetings, and big customer wins. In the middle of the usual ‘controlled chaos’ state that we operate in, I came across this recent post from Jesse Robbins over at O’Reilly Radar. For those of you who dont know Jesse [...]

[ More ] December 14th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, Javiers Blog |

More Proof That People Don’t Understand OSS Licensing

It is incredible to me that despite all the publicity and sexiness of open source, the majority of people still dont understand how open source licenses work. Despite the good work of most folks in attempting to explain the key differences between Apache/BSD-style licenses, GPL licenses, and others, I get the impression that a lot [...]

[ More ] November 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta Now Available

The first release of Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta is now available for download. This exciting new release is designed to provide a more powerful “single pane of glass” to monitor, diagnose and manage today’s complex, custom, web-based IT environments. In addition, significant infrastructure enhancements to the core Hyperic HQ platform were added to deliver the [...]

[ More ] November 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, PRs |

“Gatekeepers of the Datacenter” vs Freedom of Choice in IT

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 [...]

[ More ] November 19th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Elvis is in the Building: thoughts from LISA 07

Once again, it was an interesting time at USENIX LISA. It never fails – whenever I come to this conference, I’m always humbled by the brainpower of those hobnobbing around. The intellectual density is quite high. This year’s version of LISA was held at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas. I arrived in Dallas on Tuesday [...]

[ More ] November 16th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Events |

Hyperic Hint #1: Fixing Transaction ID Wraparound Failures in built-in HQDB

The built-in HQ database is PostgreSQL. Recently, users have been discovering PostgreSQL has a certain limitation: it will not execute more than 2 billion transactions between vacuums. In rare cases, an HQ built-in database can get into this state. If this happens, the database will stop accepting connections and HQ, which needs a data store, [...]

[ More ] November 15th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

Hyperic First Enterprise Systems Management Vendor to Support Apple’s Leopard

Apple announced its latest version of its popular Mac OS X distribution, code named Leopard, on Friday, October 26. Today, November 12, Hyperic announced that Hyperic HQ now includes support for Leopard, giving Mac developers and administrators alike access to fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management for the new OS. Businesses, particularly in the technology sector, [...]

[ More ] November 12th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in PRs |

Thanks, Oracle

Normally I don’t make a point of calling out other vendors by name, but this time I can’t resist. See, Oracle’s big party-turned-conference is this week. “Larry-fest” — I’ve heard it called by some cynics. I believe the tagline is something to the effect of “100,000 reasons to say thank you.” Thank you indeed, Oracle. [...]

[ More ] November 11th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

Keeping an Eye on Leopard

It has been a couple of years since the Hyperic development team decided to adopt Macs and OS X as our standard development environment, probably around the time when my Toshiba Windows XP laptop was threatening to spiral itself into oblivion for the second time in as many years. Eventually, I paid a second $600+ [...]

[ More ] November 9th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

It’s Official: Hyperic = Open Source World Domination

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: [...]

[ More ] November 7th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Events, Javiers Blog |

Virtualization in Production: Flexibility the Driver, Not Cost

Yesterday, Hyperic published a case study about Mosso, a division of Rackspace. Co-founder Jonathan Bryce tells a great story. They manage 30,000 websites and applications using a sophisticated architecture that is 100% clustered and 100% virtualized using VMware. Of course, the case study talks all about how Hyperic HQ is the software that made this [...]

[ More ] November 6th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

CMU’s Boss Beats Stanford’s Junior at the DARPA Challenge

Well, the name says it all. CMU names their car “Boss” and wins. Stanford calls it Junior and comes in second. I have to admit, it’s not easy being a Carnegie Mellon alumni… especially out here in Stanford territory. When CMU makes news, it’s because we win robot car races. Don’t get me wrong, I [...]

[ More ] November 5th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |