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Hyperic Wins Best Systems Management Tool Award at LinuxWorld

Hyperic HQ 3.1 Takes Top Honor on First Day of Release

LINUXWORLD - SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 8, 2007 - Open source systems management provider Hyperic Inc, today announced that the company's flagship product, Hyperic HQ 3.1, was awarded the "Best Systems Management Tool" Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld. Hyperic debuted the new release yesterday during the conference.

"We are very proud of our latest release, Hyperic HQ 3.1," said Javier Soltero, Hyperic CEO. "We delivered the most complete systems management software, designed to provide maximum visibility with minimum overhead. We are excited by the tremendous reception it has received at the event and to be officially recognized by LinuxWorld with this honor."

The product was selected for its ability to provide extensive systems management coverage that saves time and money when managing large infrastructure environments and operations teams. As a result, IT providers can centrally manage the fast-moving technologies of the demanding online services market-effectively avoiding costly downtime and streamlining staffing needs.

Also at LinuxWorld this week Hyperic announced a deployment with online dating leader, eHarmony, and unveiled the winner of its Next Generation Data Center scholarship contest. Links to the press releases can be found here: http://www.hyperic.com/about/pr.html.

More information and free downloads of Hyperic HQ are available at www.hyperic.com.

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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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.