Hyperic Newsletter – May 2008

Velocity Conference O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference is only weeks away! This is a conference we helped design and build just for our users, the web operations teams powering some of the coolest companies on the planet. As such, Hyperic is a Diamond Sponsor and our own Javier Soltero will deliver a keynote “Clouds Are no Substitute [...]

[ More ] May 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Hyperic HQ, Newsletters |

HyperLINKS for May 30, 2008

Day 2 of bringing you news you can use on the IT Management and Web Operations industry at large. Today’s top picks are: IBM will support cloud computing with its initiative, Blue Cloud Dan Kusnetzky continues to discuss virtualization 2.0, now explaining the benefits of the new phase of technology Om Malik on the ongoing [...]

[ More ] May 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

Atlassian Using Hyperic

I just saw that Atlassian, the provider of the essential community tools like Confluence wiki and JIRA ticket system, updated their wiki on the importance of monitoring the “lifeblood of your organization”. They even outline the important monitoring tasks you need, and stress that it will help when dealing with their own world class support. [...]

[ More ] May 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

HyperLINKS for May 29, 2008

Welcome to the first edition of HyperLINKS! At Hyperic, we spend a lot of time listening to the overall web operations community at large, and we thought we’d pass on to our community on a daily basis the gems that stand out. Our hope is this is news you can use. So without further ado, [...]

[ More ] May 29th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

Hyperic on Twitter

It’s official, we’ve joined the micro-blogging storm! Actually, we joined a couple months ago, but I just decided to take over managing the account. We’ll be updating the website and forums over the next month or so, but if you want to follow us for now check out the account ‘hyperic’ on twitter. You can [...]

[ More ] May 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community |

VMotion Sickness Epidemic Worse Than We Thought

Joe Hernick from InfoWorld released a new report today with some surprising data. The New Sprawl: Managing Virtual Server Environments, published today, Joe announced that only 2% of the 323 InfoWorld Respondents were using a virtualization management strategy that reconciled the physical to the virtual servers (P2V). A whopping 27% were using a “wink and [...]

[ More ] May 20th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards

Once again, SourceForge.net is holding its annual community choice awards. As a former SourceForge.net worker bee, it’s great to be able to utilize what we built at VA Linux all those years ago. So, if you’re a fan of Hyperic HQ – and if you’re not, you really should be – nominate us in one [...]

[ More ] May 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, IT Industry |

Web News Outage: InformationWeek, CRN

Cruising my daily news feeds and just came across the fact that seemingly ALL CMP Media outlets, including the popular InformationWeek.com and CRN are down. At first the sites rendered a dreaded ’500 error’: 500 The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. – Please try back later… The sites [...]

[ More ] May 13th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

MySQL Tuning with HQ

This past Monday, May 5th, I had the opportunity to speak at Community One on Scaling MySQL. The presentation was based on several months of work to integrate and tune MySQL in to our fastest supported database. MySQL is the fourth database I have developed on, and while working with it I have found a [...]

[ More ] May 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

Hyperic Announces MySQL Performance Study Results

First Enterprise Application to Prove MySQL Supports Immense Scale JAVAONE—San Francisco, Calif. – News Release: Today at JavaOne, Hyperic (Booth #1028), announced the results of a large scale performance study on Hyperic using Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database as a backend. Results showed Hyperic monitoring upwards of 2.3 million metric transactions per minute. These results definitively [...]

[ More ] May 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in PRs |

Resin and HQ are Getting Along Again

HQ and Resin user’s might have noticed that somewhere around the Resin 3.0.2x release time frame HQ stopped collecting metrics from some key values that most folks found rather important. For example, per Webapp the following metrics were no longer being collected: Request Count Request Count per Minute Request Read Bytes Request Read Bytes per [...]

[ More ] May 6th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ |

Google for SysAdmins

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately talking to the management team here at Hyperic about the subject of search. Specifically, Google search since its what most of our users tend to find us with. (No disrespect to our good friends at Ask.com whose search engine seems to be less popular with the sysadmin [...]

[ More ] May 5th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Ask Not What HQ Can Do For You…

Since the introduction of the HQU Plugin Framwork, we’ve seen a lot of activity in the Hyperic community around using this new capability to take HQ places it’s never been before.  I might be biased, but quite honestly the idea alone of HQU makes me a bit giddy.  Anytime I see this kind of power [...]

[ More ] May 2nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Hyperic HQ |

Hyperic Newsletter – April 2008

Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Now Available! Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Enterprise are now available! HQ 3.2.3 is a maintenance release with minor bugfixes. We recommend that all 3.2.x users upgrade to this latest version. Get it now: Download HQ 3.2.3 Read the Release Notes Meet and Greet, Part 1 While we may not [...]

[ More ] May 1st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Newsletters |