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The Human Neuroimaging Lab at the Baylor College of Medicine Gets A Dose of Hyperic HQ 3.0 To Maintain Systems Health

With Hyperic, lab had complete systems and application management in just four hours

San Franciscom, JavaOne Conference, CA – May 8, 2007 – Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, today announced that one of the world's leading cognitive neuroimaging research labs, the Human Neuroimaging Lab at Baylor College of Medicine, has deployed Hyperic HQ 3.0 to manage and monitor its complex IT infrastructure.

The Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Baylor is a first of its kind. This unique, state-of-the-art facility conducts research into the physiology and functional anatomy of the human brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI. This technique non-invasively records brain signals without risks of radiation inherent in other scanning methods, such as CT scans. The research conducted at the Human Neuroimaging Lab is pioneering. Prior to its existence, no organization had ever done multi-person, simultaneous brain scanning, which requires event synchronization and collection of data across both national and international facilities.

With 30 servers and more than 30 terabytes of storage supporting this large scale research initiative, the lab's system demands are intense and the selection of the right management software was essential to keep it performing. After a comprehensive review, Hyperic HQ was selected to manage and monitor the customized application software and infrastructure built specifically for the Human Neuroimaging Lab's unique research demands.

"Because of the nature of our research, we've developed a variety of lab specific applications to collect and analyze data. Our flagship application, NEMO, is open source, and we've benefited greatly from that model," said Justin King, systems administrator at the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory. "With virtually no customization required on our part, Hyperic's software manages and monitors all aspects of our environment, giving us complete visibility from a high-level view down to a specific table within a database."

Managing the lab's custom-built Java and Cold Fusion applications running on Tomcat and Apache required software to pull all of the applications' infrastructure components together and manage them as a whole. Among the key decision criteria were Hyperic's application layer management capabilities, group alerting and ease of deployment. The lab's IT team deployed the system in just four hours, without any down time or disruption to the network.

"We are very pleased that the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory has deployed our management software," said Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. "Customers like the lab are clearly drawn to the unique product features we offer that make management of highly complex data centers an uncomplicated and far less stressful experience. This ease of management allows the end user to focus on their specific business, or in this case, research needs, rather than having to focus energy on keeping their IT infrastructure up and running."

Hyperic HQ is the industry's only product that provides cross-stack visibility for software in production, whether it's open source, commercial, or a hybrid. As a result, organizations like the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory can now centrally manage the fast-moving technologies of the Next Generation Data Center – effectively avoiding costly downtime. An extensible system, Hyperic HQ manages all kinds of operating systems, web servers, application servers and database servers. Using the Hyperic HQ Portal, IT managers can quickly configure the software to monitor, alert, diagnose and control most types of applications – both at a technical and business level.

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.

CloudStatus Provides Free, Real-Time Performance Information for Amazon Web Services

Velocity Conference—San Francisco, Calif.—June 23, 2008 – Open source web infrastructure management provider Hyperic Inc., (Velocity Booth #6), today launched the beta of Hyperic CloudStatus, the first service to provide an independent view of the health and performance of the most popular cloud on the Internet, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The new service gives businesses that use the cloud the perspective they need to determine the cause of performance changes in their cloud-based web applications. CloudStatus beta is a free service built on the Hyperic HQ management platform and will expand to include additional cloud providers this summer.