It was with much interest that I read a post on javalobby.org yesterday all about Leopard and its lack of a Java 6 package as well as a buggy Java 5. Hyperic being a software house that does much of its engineering in Java, as well as ardent fans of OS X, this was of [...]

In the spirit (pun intended) of Halloween, Hyperic sponsored a Nightmare on Web Street contest, where folks were encouraged to tell their grim tales of IT woe for a chance at trick-or-treating for a Wii! The day has come, and the contest winner has been selected. Without further ado, I would like to congratulate “Mr [...]

It’s a question we all wonder. Who will prove their technology team can crank out the best efforts in the industry? Who will be recognized for thier prowess in this fast-moving industry of open source software? To answer this question, we have devised an extremely competitive gauntlet to decide. The showdown begins tomorrow at 5:30 [...]

Enterprise Systems Management blogger John Willis recently attended a Tivoli user group (SOTUG) up in Canada, and met Brett Gillett, a veteran Tivoli user who has turned to Hyperic in the past couple years. Brett offered John a good perspective on why he made the switch and for what functionality. Acknowledging that Tivoli is [...]

When I first with Javier, Hyperic CEO, there were two things that struck me. One, Javier’s complete enthusiasm for the Hyperic HQ software and the team he was building, customers included. And two, he was right – Hyperic HQ actually provided real value to its users and customers through automating really tough processes and providing [...]

Ubuntu, the outstandingly popular desktop Linux distribution, announced its latest version on Thursday, October 18. Today, October 25th, Hyperic announced that Hyperic HQ now includes support for Gutsy Gibbon, giving administrators of the Linux-based operating system access to fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management for the new OS, and becoming the first IT management provider to [...]

It’s become quite a tradition these last couple of years – whenever we are about to “spring forward” or “fall behind” it can only mean one thing: it’s time for another Ubuntu release. Indeed, Ubuntu 7.10, aka “gutsy gibbon” was released last Friday, October 19. Good thing Hyperic HQ is pretty flexible about these things [...]

Well, we were expecting our good friends from MuleSource to show up tomorrow. As it turns out, they’ve asked for a postponement in order to accomodate the arrival of Dave’s tag-team partner Ross. Not sure how much Wii Tennis Ross is bringing to the fold, but we’ll be more than happy to give them more [...]

I had a pretty fabulous week this week as I got to go to a meeting with some of the most sophisticated website operations teams in the world. I can’t name names, but I did ask one of them if I could write up his conversation at dinner last night. He said yes, so here [...]

I just got back from 3 days off. In startup-land, that is virtually akin to 3 weeks. However, upon my return I was humbled by how much got done without me. In fact, really – how much even got done without a Hyperic employee. It is no secret Hyperic’s community is growing. We now have [...]

Some days feel like walking nightmares to the ops folks that power the websites we all take for granted. I’m sure the folks at 365 Main enjoyed their 24 hour outage crisis. Skype’s outage became a worldwide headline for 3 days. Not all website outages are headliners, but all of them are painful for the [...]

I have a degree in Economics, however, I have never actually worked as an Economist. I am still interested though, and religiously read all the reports on the Fed, the business section of the newspaper, and once a year, the winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics. This year, Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger [...]

In the spirit of David Letterman (one often imitated by yours truly), the folks at Gartner Research have released the list of “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008″. The thing I find most interesting about this list is how truly un-new it is. My first reaction when reading it was “I thought most of this [...]

My good buddy Dave Rosenberg has gone from blogging once a quarter to now picking fights on podcasts. He’s followed Matt Asay’s lead in every chance he can to call out my Wii Tennis skills… The most recent incident was in his second installment of Open Season. Given that I consider the Wii to be [...]

You may have heard Javier talk about our “BRE” software, which stands for Best Release Ever. It is what we call every one of our releases (yes, we have another one shaping up for this winter!). So, after our release last week, the team got together on Friday night to celebrate. Of course, as we [...]

It’s been a big month here at Hyperic. We left off last month shipping the GA version of Hyperic HQ 3.1, and now today, we have just shipped our shiny new version of Hyperic HQ 3.1 Enterprise.  Releases are always a major event for a company, but this release also marked an important milestone in our [...]

My friend Dave Rosenberg got me thinking this morning about the market dynamics of closed source, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Open Source Software (OSS). In his post on InfoWorld, Dave muses on the differences of SaaS vs OSS. He cites that there are relatively few standouts in SaaS and many shining stars in OSS. I have [...]

Hyperic customer deployments are growing at a tremendous pace – they’re scaling out managing thousands of resources with 10s of thousands of metrics and events being tracked every minute. In this kind of environment, scale is an absolute requirement and something that takes sound technical architecture, talented engineering, and most of all, maturity in the [...]

What a great name for an award… punchy, accurate acronym along with an irresistible pun! We found out this morning that Hyperic was listed among the 4 ‘finalists’ of the award. Despite Infoworld’s decision not to publish a winner until they finish deeper reviews of each product, we’re eager to see the results. In the [...]

Hyperic days are generally very full days. So I sympathize with Dave Rosenberg’s apathy for blogging some days. Generally when I blog, I prefer to discuss a unique perspective on a meaningful topic that is relevant to today’s greater conversation. I have lots of these thoughts every day. What I don’t have is time. When [...]

Skype’s outage this morning (and the ensuing uproar from it’s dedicated users) served as yet another example of how a critical online service is under constant risk of upsetting its users and losing business due. While the true cause of the outage has not been officially communicated by the folks at Skype, it’s precisely these [...]

Huge news today. Citrix has agreed to acquire XenSource for a whopping $500 Million dollars. In the wake of this news, I figured I’d offer some commentary and a perspective. First, as a sister investment company (XenSource and Hyperic are backed by Accel Partners and share Larry Augustin as a board member), I am excited [...]

Our August newsletter is out. In this issue, you’ll find updates on HQ 3.1, our HQ 3.1 Enterprise Beta release, triumph at LinuxWorld, a case study with eHarmony, new plugins galore, and a bunch more. Read the newsletter here. Sign up for future newsletters.

I just wanted to pipe in and let everyone know that there is exactly one winner of Best Systems Management Tool at LinuxWorld Expo. And that winner is, of course, Hyperic HQ 3.1! See the press release here. Here is photo evidence: (from left to right: Stacey, John Mark, and Javier) Hail to the victors! [...]

I am very pleased to announce, that among all the systems management vendors who are going to be at Linux World, the event producers, IDG World Expo, and the judging staff from LinuxWorld.com, have selected Hyperic HQ 3.1, as a finalist for the Best Systems Management Tool Award. This is especially exciting as it is [...]