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Hyperic Launches HyperFORGE to Extend Open Plug-In Community

9 New Plug-Ins Donated to Open Source HyperFORGE targeted at Systems Management of High Volume On-Line Services

San Francisco, CA – June 18, 2007 – Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, today announced the HyperFORGE, Hyperic's open source software development site, which will provide developers with an easy way to create plug-ins to Hyperic HQ, the company's flagship systems management platform.

Most Hyperic HQ open source users are deploying next-generation, high demand on-line applications built on modern SOA architectures. These on-line, services-based deployments require the ability to monitor and manage across all layers of the stack to establish a composite view of their heterogeneous environments.

Hyperic HQ currently ships with the industry's broadest footprint of technologies managed today. However, recognizing that the technology needs of online services businesses change rapidly, the HyperFORGE provides a way for this community to work together to quickly add support for their changing technology adoption.

As part of the launch, Hyperic is announcing nine new plugins to its portfolio, which brings the total number of managed technologies to 55, five times more than any other open source systems management provider. The new plugins available through the forge include: IBM Informix; Squid; lighttpd; qmail; JOnAS; CruiseControl; NetScaler; ZXTM; WxGoos.

"Hyperic's mission is to provide the only open source systems management software purpose-built for the fast-moving online services market," said Doug MacEachern, CTO and co-founder of Hyperic. "The online market has different and changing needs. Technology is its product, and evolving and embracing new technologies is driving web sites and new SOA infrastructures. Having an open forge allows the community to respond quickly to changing requirements. And through community contributions, we can provide users with more than 90 percent coverage of their technology needs. Most other vendors leave 90 percent uncovered, and that's just unacceptable."

Companies implementing traditional systems management tools typically spend weeks or months customizing scripts to collect monitoring data and connecting their management system to the desired technologies. For fast-moving, online services businesses that demand high availability, these types of traditional deployments can pose serious risks, opening "management gaps" in their framework, and creating extensive deployment costs. Through Hyperic HQ, this demanding market now has access to an innovative systems management alternative that provides the most comprehensive and cost-effective management and networking software out-of-the-box.

Designed to encourage the community to collaborate, Hyperic's new HyperFORGE includes an easy-to-use Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) that streamlines the process of writing management protocols to a few simple lines of XML. More detailed plugins can be written in C++, Java, or perl. The site is organized as a library where users can contribute "HOWTO" guides, as well as plugins. For complete information on all Hyperic-supported technologies, visit the managed products page.

Announcing the "Plug-in of the Month" Program

Hyperic is encouraging contributions and is kicking off its "Plug-in of the Month" program, which will review all plug-ins on a monthly basis and award the most valuable plug-in with a write-up in the monthly community newsletter as well as the Hyperic blog. All contributors of a reusable plug-in will receive a Hyperic company logo golf shirt. Winners of the monthly contest will also receive a $250 dollar American Express gift certificate for contributions. For more information on this program, visit Hyperic's Plug-In of the Month page.

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.