I’d like to follow up this week’s announcements of VMware’s IT as a Service strategy and VMware vFabric by zeroing in on the challenges surrounding cloud application performance management, and how vFabric Hyperic can help you meet those challenges. As our CEO Paul Maritz mentioned at yesterday’s VMworld keynote, our industry has hit a tipping [...]

Well, folks, the cat’s finally out of the bag. Today we are proud to announce that Hyperic has been acquired by SpringSource. It’s been a pretty exciting couple of months here at our San Francisco headquarters. Luckily our team hasn’t missed a beat in our continued quest to build a great software company. Why is [...]

Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Management and Professional Services, 2009” report by analysts Milind Govekar, Cameron Haight, David W. Cearley and Lydia Leong references Hyperic as the vendor to talk to about your cloud management initiatives. Gartner’s report states that key innovation in cloud computing management will be provided by startup vendors. According to [...]

We at Hyperic have been speaking with lots of companies about their plans to move various development efforts into the cloud.  Over the last few years our strongest relationships have been with operations teams and systems administrators, but since launching Cloudstatus and our AMI version of Hyperic HQ we are speaking with more and more [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.3 is the second maintenance release in the 4.0 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.2. Go get it! To find out what goodies await you in 4.0.3, please checkout [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hyperic 3.2.5! The latest release of Hyperic HQ, 3.2.5, is live and chock full of the good stuff. Notable changes and additions include: Changes in a platform’s fully qualified domain name are autodiscovered, the new JMX console allows you to display and control MBeans and troubleshoot JVM issues, script actions for alerts, metric display auto-reset [...]

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 [...]

Hyperic is making news today all on its own, with an addition of our new Director of Community Management, Jeremy Hogan and a separate write-up in NetworkWorld on virtualization management. Check out today’s picks: Jeremy Hogan joins Hyperic! Jeremy has some serious experience in growing great communities like Red Hat and Fedora, so we’ll expect [...]

Hyperic headlines today’s news, but as usual Yahoo! is all over everybody else’s news… Michael Vizard writes about the need for change in IT management as cloud computing becomes increasingly commonplace, citing Hyperic as a company that is helping to create this new approach to IT management Get your download finger ready! Mozilla confirmed its [...]

It’s official, we’ve joined the micro-blogging storm! Actually, we joined a couple months ago, but I just decided to take over managing the account. We’ll be updating the website and forums over the next month or so, but if you want to follow us for now check out the account ‘hyperic’ on twitter. You can [...]

Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Now Available! Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Enterprise are now available! HQ 3.2.3 is a maintenance release with minor bugfixes. We recommend that all 3.2.x users upgrade to this latest version. Get it now: Download HQ 3.2.3 Read the Release Notes Meet and Greet, Part 1 While we may not [...]

The good things keep happening every day here at Hyperic. Today’s good news is that Barry Klawans has officially joined our team! Many of you know Barry as the co-founder and longtime CTO of JasperSoft. Barry recently took leave of JasperSoft to find something that let him enjoy his family more. However, for those of [...]

The team just finished our second successful MySQL Con. Many thanks to Marten & Zack and all the folks at O’Reilly that put on such a great conference. This year definitely had a different feel, and of course that had a lot to do with Sun’s influence. It felt like it was almost a new [...]

Dan Fost, a freelance reporter for the New York Times, did an article today on virtualization. In the beginning part of his research, he came to me to understand more about how virtualization is changing IT. Dan’s article, titled Closing the Doors That Virtual Sprawl Leaves Open, covers a broad array of topics from the [...]

I was quite startled to learn yesterday that next week is OSBC (the Open Source Business Conference). As in, 7 days from now. We’ve got a few things going on at this year’s edition. Javier will appear in the panel I’ll Show You My Forge If You Show Me Yours at 10:30am on Wednesday, March [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]