SpringSource Acquires Hyperic

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 this a [...]

[ More ] May 3rd, 2009 | 18 Comments | Posted in Javiers Blog |

Gartner Selects Hyperic as “Cool Vendor”

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 the [...]

[ More ] March 20th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

The Cloud Dilemma for Developers

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 [...]

[ More ] February 3rd, 2009 | 7 Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

HQ 4.0.3 is Now Available

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 the [...]

[ More ] February 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Hyperic HQ |

Cloud Computing Definition

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 complete [...]

[ More ] October 1st, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in CloudStatus, IT Industry |

Hyperic in Europe

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 [...]

[ More ] September 16th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in PRs |

Hyperic Newsletter – August, 2008

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 from [...]

[ More ] September 4th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in CloudStatus, Newsletters |

HyperLINKS July 25, 2008

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 Xen and KVM [...]

[ More ] July 25th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

HyperLINKS June 16, 2008

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 to [...]

[ More ] June 16th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

HyperLINKS June 12, 2008

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 release of [...]

[ More ] June 12th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Events, Hyperic HQ |