Dalet Partners with Hyperic to Integrate Best-of-breed Monitoring Technology Across Dalet Enterprise MAM solutions

Digital Media Management Provider Will OEM Hyperic HQ Enterprise for Comprehensive Management and Monitoring Capabilities

San Francisco, Calif.—Sept. 9, 2008 — Open source web infrastructure management provider Hyperic Inc. today announced that Dalet Digital Media Systems, a worldwide leader in Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions , has selected Hyperic HQ Enterprise to power its upcoming digital media management offering, the Dalet Dashboard.

Dalet enterprise asset management solutions provide comprehensive media management for broadcast, entertainment, government, education, corporations and non-profit organizations. Developed for standard IT hardware, these large-scale deployments enable organizations to capture, manage and store digital media. Dalet’s customer list spans the globe and includes industry leading companies such as; ABS-CBN, BBC Arabic and Persian Channel, Russia Today, and Warner Bros. Entertainment.

“We are committed to open standards and integration and, to this end, we have lead the industry with forward thinking developments such as the Dalet Dashboard, based on Hyperic HQ monitoring technology. The new dashboard has the potential to revolutionize how broadcasters and content producers are able to work,” said David Lasry, CEO, Dalet. “Because of the critical role that our solution plays in the 24x7 delivery of content, our customers need maximum visibility into the software and hardware performance and the technologies feeding into our software. The Hyperic-powered Dalet Dashboard will enable our customers to proactively manage their Dalet solutions as well as the many multi-media systems that integrate into Dalet and form a full enterprise system.”

Dalet chose to embed Hyperic’s software due to the breadth of technologies it supports, its highly extensible platform, and its proven scalability. Additional factors in the decision were Hyperic’s flexible partner approach and proven OEM experience.

“Many ISVs and Software as a Services (SaaS) providers recognize the importance of providing better visibility and manageability of the services they deliver to their customers,” said Jeff Santelices, vice president of business development at Hyperic. “By partnering with Hyperic, companies like Dalet get to market quickly with a proven management technology, delivering capability that their customers’ value. We’re pleased to add Dalet to our growing list of strategic partners who use Hyperic to power their management solutions.”

Hyperic Powers Management and Monitoring for Industry Leaders
Hyperic has a robust and growing partner program. The company has successfully partnered with ISVs (proprietary and Open-Source), Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), cloud computing vendors, offshore, and global and regional systems integrators. Hyperic technology provides the core management and monitoring offerings for some of the industry’s leading companies, including MySQL/Sun Microsystems, JBoss/Red Hat, MuleSource, SpringSource, Terracotta and more. The company has recently established significant partner momentum in other markets, including the federal and European markets, with Dalet as the most recent example.

For information about Hyperic’s partner program, visit: http://www.hyperic.com/partners/.

About Hyperic

Hyperic (www.hyperic.com) provides open source monitoring and management software for all types of web applications, whether hosted in the cloud or on premise. Its software powers the management and monitoring offerings of technology leaders that Contegix, Rackspace's Mosso, JBoss/Red Hat, MySQL/Sun Microsystems, SpringSource, Iona, and more. Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer — including hardware, networks, virtualization, cloud environments and applications. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.