Earlier this year, VMware announced a new product called vFabric Application Director. Application Director is a new product that runs atop VMware vCenter Director that helps application architects visually plan, build and deploy applications to cloud infrastructure. Today, Eitan Gayor, a VMware engineer, published a new video that shows a very simplified version of how [...]

We are proud to announce that the former Hyperic Forums have been successfully migrated to a new Hyperic VMware Community. As stated in a blog late last year, this is an important milestone for Hyperic users worldwide. This marks the final step in the transition of the customer experience into the larger family of products [...]

UPDATE: Migration will now start on January 31st, at 6 pm PST. On February 1st, we will migrate the independent Hyperic Forums over to the overall VMware Communities.  All forums, messages, threads, announcements and reward points will be migrated over to a new Hyperic VMware Community. User history will be attached based on email address. [...]

November is a big month for Hyperic customers! Earlier this month, we announced the general availability of Hyperic as part of the new VMware vFabric Application Performance Management solution that is leading VMware’s application management vision. We are also excited to announce that in early 2012, the Hyperic Forums will be migrating to incorporate them [...]

Hyperic + Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry is the revolutionary open platform as a service from VMware that supports multiple frameworks, application services, and clouds. The vFabric Hyperic team is pleased to announce the availability of the free Cloud Foundry plugin for Hyperic that brings Hyperic’s proven ability to monitor, alert, and control application infrastructure resources [...]

As of this week, organizations using the popular Zimbra next generation email and collaboration solution, can download a new VMware Zimbra Appliance that is set up for simplified management and monitoring with vFabric Hyperic. Requiring no additional setup, Hyperic gives Zimbra admins instant visibility to be able to pinpoint, correct, and prevent application performance problems [...]

The latest release for our award winning web application monitoring and management software, VMware vFabric Hyperic 4.5, is now available for download! Coming just three months after our 4.4 release, and five months after our 4.3 release, this release builds on previous releases for the Hyperic 4 family and focuses on updating the underlying infrastructure to a modern, lightweight, and modular architecture. Taking advantage of the deep capabilities of both the Spring java application framework and Apache Tomcat servlet container, the Hyperic development team has improved performance and streamlined development time for future features and provided faster turnaround for bug fixes.

Every year, InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Awards (aka Bossies) are selected by the InfoWorld  editors and reviewers. Bossie categories include application development, middleware, applications, and of course monitoring. We’re pleased to announce that VMware vFabric Hyperic has won a 2010 Bossie for best monitoring software! We appreciate the recognition, since it is a [...]

I’d like to follow up this week’s announcements of VMware’s IT as a Service strategy and VMware vFabric by zeroing in on the challenges surrounding cloud application performance management, and how vFabric Hyperic can help you meet those challenges. As our CEO Paul Maritz mentioned at yesterday’s VMworld keynote, our industry has hit a tipping [...]

VMware SpringSource engineer Jon Travis was interviewed by InfoQ a few weeks ago on application monitoring with Hyperic and Spring Insight. You can find the interview here.

Javier Soltero was recently interviewed by BSMdigest on the history of VMware Hyperic, and the motivations that drove its development. The article highlights why today’s enterprise web applications require a different approach to management than what’s provided by the Big Four systems management vendors, and how Hyperic implements that approach. You can read the interview here.

The Hyperic product team is pleased to announce the general availability of Hyperic 4.4, featuring enhanced integration with VMware vCenter Server. Thanks to this integration, Hyperic now maintains a continually updated inventory of VMware vSphere ESXi and ESX hosts, enabling IT Administrators to more rapidly pinpoint, correct, and prevent application performance problems wherever they occur [...]

If you manage applications running on virtual infrastructure, you should check out two articles. The first describes how virtualization changes everything about systems and application performance management. The second describes the top five features to look for in virtualized application management. These articles describe how virtualized environments are much more dynamic from legacy physical server [...]

The Hyperic product team is pleased to announce the general availability of SpringSource Hyperic 4.3. This release contains a number of features and updates that our customers and users have requested. Hyperic Open Source 4.3 features include: SNMP version 3 — improved support for SNMP v3 authentication, plus SNMP v3 privacy services support. Extended Windows [...]

After many months of tireless hard work and ingenuity, SpringSource Hyperic HQ 4.2.0 is finally ready to find a home in your very own data center.  This major release brings some pretty exciting new features to the product, and incorporates some cool tricks we learned from our SpringSource family.  Please take a look at the [...]

The last 100 days have been extraordinary for Hyperic. The events over the last three months place Hyperic in the unique position to be part of defining the future of application deployment and management. First, we announced in May that we were joining forces with SpringSource to build the next great full lifecycle enterprise software [...]

Even though we were all a bit busy last week with a certain major announcement, Hyperic is pleased to announce the release of HQ 4.1.2, the second maintenance release in the SpringSource HQ 4.1 family.  As with all maintenance releases, this release fixes bugs since the last release and enhancements to existing functionality. You can [...]

Well, folks, the cat’s finally out of the bag. Today we are proud to announce that Hyperic has been acquired by SpringSource. It’s been a pretty exciting couple of months here at our San Francisco headquarters. Luckily our team hasn’t missed a beat in our continued quest to build a great software company. Why is [...]

It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the newest member of the HQ family, HQ 4.1.1! This is the first maintenance release in the HQ 4.1 series. You can get 4.1.1 here. Enjoy! And as always, thanks to the many users, customers, and engineers that contributed to this release.

As a tech entrepreneur and startup veteran, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to start a new company these days. Assuming an entrepreneur wants to be successful, my conclusion is that the only real choices for the basis of a new technology company are open source, the cloud (including SaaS) or innovation [...]

Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Management and Professional Services, 2009” report by analysts Milind Govekar, Cameron Haight, David W. Cearley and Lydia Leong references Hyperic as the vendor to talk to about your cloud management initiatives. Gartner’s report states that key innovation in cloud computing management will be provided by startup vendors. According to [...]

Join us tomorrow for a free live joint Webinar with eValid as we discuss how to monitor complex AJAX applications. You’ll learn how to improve complex web application monitoring by using eValid functional tests with direct reporting into Hyperic HQ. Edward Miller, eValid’s Chief Architect and our own Marty Messer will be leading this 1-hour Webinar. See eValid’s [...]

The latest release of Hyperic HQ, 4.1 is live and full of the features and updates that our customers and the community have asked us for. Thank you to our community members who spent many hours hammering the 4.1 beta release over the past few weeks and got us to this point of a solid [...]

Kevin Burton’s New Feedblog wants help finding good open source software for IT monitoring.  Although Mr. Burton needs an IT monitoring solution, almost anybody making a software choice faces the same challenge. Not so long ago, when a business decided to solve a problem with software, the calculus was simpler: make or buy. Software products [...]

If You Can’t Monitor Performance, How Do You Manage It? Applications and infrastructure performance must be consistently and vigilantly monitored, and expertly managed to maintain business efficiencies and assurances that service level agreements (SLAs) are being met. Unfortunately, with networks operating across numerous remote locations and business functions managed across a spectrum of platforms, services [...]