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eHarmony Finds the Perfect Systems Management Match in Hyperic HQ

Leading Online Relationship Service Chooses Hyperic for its Flexibility; Ability to Manage Emerging Technologies

LINUXWORLD - SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - August 7, 2007 - Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, today announced that eHarmony, the Internet's #1 trusted relationship service, has deployed Hyperic HQ 3.0 Enterprise to manage and monitor its entire IT infrastructure.

eHarmony is the only online relationship service dedicated to building the relationships of both singles and married couples. The site has more than 16 million registered users, and adds 10-15 thousand new users every day. eHarmony has members from all 50 states and more than 200 countries.

"Our members expect to have 24/7 access to our service and with such a large community of users, the smallest performance issue can have a significant impact," said Mark Douglas, VP of technology at eHarmony. "With Hyperic HQ we have confidence that our team is always one step ahead of potential issues, no matter how many people are on the site or how many new users are added."

eHarmony has long understood that technology can be a key differentiator in maximizing user experience. With monthly page views between 300 and 650 million, eHarmony's system demands are intense. eHarmony selected Hyperic HQ for its affordability, flexibility and innovative architecture that could aggressively support both existing and emerging technologies. Using Hyperic, eHarmony has a developed a sophisticated alerting structure that organizes and prioritizes alerts based on type and action required so that those that need attention first, get it immediately.

"The challenges faced by online services companies like eHarmony are issues that our product was purpose-built to help solve," said Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. "eHarmony needed a solution that could grow with the company as it added new users and new infrastructure, without adding layers of complexity that would have to be managed. Hyperic HQ delivered all of that in spades."

Hyperic monitors all network, application, database, and storage activity and correlates that information over time to conduct trend analysis. Hyperic HQ has been successfully deployed for over 18 months. The company is planning to expand its use business activity alerts with Hyperic, and continues to expand existing deployments as demand for these services accelerates.

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 eHarmony 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.

For the complete case study on eHarmony and Hyperic HQ, download it at the Hyperic website at eHarmony Case Study.

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.

About eHarmony

Backed by 35 years of clinical and empirical research, eHarmony is the Internet's #1 trusted relationship service and the only site dedicated to building the relationships of both singles and married couples. eHarmony was founded by one of America's best-known relationship experts, best-selling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Neil Clark Warren.

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.