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Hyperic Essay Contest Challenges Students to Describe Data Center of the Future

Contest Offers Students a Chance to Win $5,000 Scholarship Award

San Francisco – March 14, 2007 – Hyperic Inc. (www.hyperic.com), the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, today kicked off an essay contest that encourages students to articulate the management challenges and solutions surrounding the Next Generation Data Center, a new breed of IT workspaces, characterized by increased consolidation and higher utilization of resources, faster delivery times for services, and significantly expanded channels for communication and collaboration.

Established to engage emerging IT experts and future system administrators in the development of next generation IT management tools and techniques, the contest will award a $5,000 scholarship to the individual who can most clearly define the IT requirements for systems management of the Next Generation Data Center.

"Some of the greatest minds in IT have yet to enter the workforce, and we are excited to offer a program that engages some of these in one of the most challenging questions facing IT today - determining how to take advantage of next generation technologies in a sustainable way," said Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. "As exemplified by the open source movement, fresh ideas, and different perspectives are critical to the process of technical innovation, and we are pleased at the opportunity to help foster tomorrow's talent, today."

How to Apply

The scholarship is open to all members of university-level IT departments. To apply for a scholarship, students may be required to show proof of enrollment in university-level IT classes, and faculty must show proof of employment. Awards will be assigned directly to student tuition, or departmental budget. Interested individuals are invited to visit hyperic.com/essaycontest and download the application form, fill it out using any word processing application, and email it back to the judging panel at scholarship@hyperic.com with "Managing the Data Center of the Future" as the subject. The essay should be a 2500-word description of their vision for managing the next-generation data center. Winning essays must include specific requirements, background and use-case scenarios, real or imagined, that describes the types of IT monitoring and analysis that will be required by Next Generation Data Centers.

Submissions will be accepted through June 15, 2007. Hyperic employees will be the sole judge of the contest, and results of contest will be published by August 6, 2007.

About Hyperic Inc.

Hyperic provides open source systems monitoring and management software that reduces the workload for operations teams at the world’s biggest web companies, including Microsoft, CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, Contegix, Rackspace’s Mosso, and more.

Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to perform cross-platform monitoring, diagnostics and control from a remote, web-based console, helping them more quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer—including hardware, networks, virtualization and applications.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.

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