Hyperic Newsletter – July, 2008

Join With Other Hypericans on LinkedIn!
We have a new group on LinkedIn, and you’re invited to join now!
OSCON, 2008
OSCON was a blast this year, as usual. Every year, Portland becomes ground zero for free and open source companies and advocates. Sessions, panels, BoFs and parties. Hyperic sponsored the Community Choice Awards, and Robin Miller has [...]

[ More ] July 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Hyperic HQ, Newsletters |

24 Hours at OSCON

I decided that there is way too much to recap in one post, so I will summarize a single day at OSCON. Told in the style of television’s “24″. Hyperbole added to incriminate the guilty.
OSCON — Portland — 7/23 – 7/24
The following happened between 6:00p – 8:00p (7/23)

It was a long day. I traveled for [...]

[ More ] July 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community, Events |

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 July 24, 2008

OSCON news continues…But the “Spam King” is not forgotten
Penny stock “Spam King” flees prison by foot, deciding he had had enough of his stay
Tim O’Reilly’s speech at OSCON determines that the future must be “open,” in particular with Cloud Computing, Open Web and Mobile
Serdar Yegulalp of InformationWeek interviews Jim Zemlin of the Linux [...]

[ More ] July 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

HyperLINKS July 23, 2008

Lots of news coming out of OSCON today, but we’ll start HyperLINKS with some additional S3 outage coverage and a CloudStatus reference.
Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer puts in her two cents about the S3 outage, and even includes quotes from Hyperic’s Jon Travis
In more S3 outage news, Fortune’s Michal Lev-Ram talks about the [...]

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

The Evolution of Community

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 communities [...]

[ More ] July 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Events, IT Industry |