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Former Wily Vice President Joins Hyperic as Senior Vice President of Engineering

The Addition of Paul Melmon Deepens Bench of Technical Leadership

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 18, 2007 - Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, today named Paul Melmon senior vice president of engineering. Having held senior executive positions at both Wily Technology and at Pets.com, Melmon brings more than 20 years of engineering excellence, strategic vision and exceptional execution in both infrastructure tooling and online business to his role. At Hyperic, Melmon will oversee the strategy and implementation of all engineering, development, support and product management for the company.

Prior to Hyperic, Melmon served as vice president of corporate and business development at Wily, a provider of application management solutions acquired by CA in March of 2006. At Wily, he was responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of all technology partnerships and merger and acquisition activity. During his tenure at Wily, Melmon was also vice president of research and development, overseeing all design, development, and delivery of products. Before Wily, Melmon was CIO at Pets.com, where he led the team that defined and developed the company's technology and operations infrastructure.

"With more than 300 enterprise-class customers, Hyperic is the clear leader in open source systems management," said Melmon. "The team at Hyperic has succeeded by creating a new approach aimed at helping IT solve the most difficult management challenge-taming the complex IT environments that characterize the fast-moving online services market. I'm looking forward to being a part of taking Hyperic and its customers to the next level."

Earlier in his career, Melmon held engineering and management positions at Wallop Software, Scopus Technology, Sybase and Hewlett-Packard.

"Paul has a strong track record bringing new technologies to market and building and managing complex IT infrastructures for the demanding online services companies," said Hyperic co-founder and CEO, Javier Soltero. "This experience will be critical as Hyperic expands its solutions for managing the complex web infrastructure environments typical of online services providers."

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.