The end of July brings new possibilities of an open source cloud The industry is still talking about the Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo announcement. InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder adds his take to the news 451 Group releases their CAOS Theory, reporting the increase of community Linux distributions Here it comes! The virtual sprawl is hitting Wall [...]

Join With Other Hypericans on LinkedIn! We have a new group on LinkedIn, and you’re invited to join now! OSCON, 2008 OSCON was a blast this year, as usual. Every year, Portland becomes ground zero for free and open source companies and advocates. Sessions, panels, BoFs and parties. Hyperic sponsored the Community Choice Awards, and [...]

Mid-week HyperLINKS bring cloud coverage and virtualization to the surface The Yankee Group foresees virtualization as the solution for corporate enterprises Matthew Aslett raises a good question for the future…who will be the first to establish an open source cloud? More and more companies drifting into the cloud…eBay is in the works of creating a [...]

Lots of moving and shaking today and we are not just talking about the earthquake in Southern California. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering with governments and academic institutions to create an open source cloud computing test bed with six distributed centers Gunjan Trivedi offers a great analysis of cloud computing [...]

In today’s HyperLINKS…Amazon gets to the bottom of S3 outage Michael Krigsman of ZDNet writes on Amazon’s analysis of their service failure, calling their post-mortem “mature” A Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates the likelihood of significant decreases in IT jobs, both with in-house and contract staff Forbes’ Bob Worrall discusses the need for more [...]

We just found out that Hyperic has been nominated for two, count ‘em two, LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. Hyperic HQ is in the running for Best System Management tool and our newest product, the CloudStatus.com cloud monitor, is nominated for Best Clustering or Grid Solution. Hopefully you’ll be able to attend the LinuxWorld Conference and [...]

I decided that there is way too much to recap in one post, so I will summarize a single day at OSCON. Told in the style of television’s “24″. Hyperbole added to incriminate the guilty. OSCON — Portland — 7/23 – 7/24 The following happened between 6:00p – 8:00p (7/23) It was a long day. [...]

OSCON comes to a close while System Administrators are celebrated Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller posted a CloudStatus demo video and interview with engineer Jon Travis. Stacey Higginbotham writes about VC’s increasing interest in the cloud, mentioning Hyperic as an option for monitoring Denise Dubie highlights today’s Sys Admin holiday Dan Kusnetzky ponders on the question, “If [...]

On this most hallowed and revered holiday, we decided to salute the unsung and often unwashed heroes of IT the only way we know how… by poking a little fun at the Real Men of Geekness. So, here’s to you, Mr. Underappreciated Sys Admin Guy (or Gal).

OSCON news continues…But the “Spam King” is not forgotten Penny stock “Spam King” flees prison by foot, deciding he had had enough of his stay Tim O’Reilly’s speech at OSCON determines that the future must be “open,” in particular with Cloud Computing, Open Web and Mobile Serdar Yegulalp of InformationWeek interviews Jim Zemlin of the [...]

Lots of news coming out of OSCON today, but we’ll start HyperLINKS with some additional S3 outage coverage and a CloudStatus reference. Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer puts in her two cents about the S3 outage, and even includes quotes from Hyperic’s Jon Travis In more S3 outage news, Fortune’s Michal Lev-Ram talks [...]

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…OUCH! Tarus at OpenNMS talks about Dave Hustace’s new project, OUCH to be revealed at LinuxWorld. OUCH stands for OpenNMS-Ubuntu-Concursive-Hyperic <grin> TechCrunch is planning to use open source to create their own web tablet device, essentially creating a source similar to a desktop Jack M. Germain writes about the security concerns facing VMs

Big outages means big news! Yesterday’s Amazon S3 outage is continuing to make headlines today. Richard MacManus of Read Write Web reveals the many consequences of Amazon’s S3 downtime and raises the question of security within the cloud In a special report on virtualization, Gartner says virtualization is the highest-impact issue changing infrastructure and operations [...]

At 8:46 PDT this morning, CloudStatus reported that several of the AWS services were experiencing outages. Amazon posted that they were aware of the issue at 9:05 PDT on status.aws.amazon.com. We saw internal server errors coming from the majority of our S3 and SQS monitoring agents. In addition, we experienced other problems with EC2 (many [...]

Friday’s HyperLINKS…Cloud computing is questioned but also praised as a new service to the military Richard Martin writes about the control over the cloud…how secure is corporate data when it is managed by an unknown virtual source? Om Malik reminds us that although we survived the dot-com bust in Silicon Valley, we should be aware [...]

In HyperLINKS today…San Francisco computer hacker causes chaos for administrators, while cloud coverage continues to float on the web Distressed San Francisco network administrator pleads “not guilty” to computer tampering, an incident that will cost $250,000 to repair Bruce Guptill and William S. McNee write about the evolution of SaaS and cloud computing Phil Wainewright [...]

Hump Day HyperLINKS bring CloudStatus interviews and discussion of virtualization as mainstream Tom Sullivan of InfoWorld questions whether single-vendor open source is getting too risky Paolo Del Nibletto speaks with Forrester Research Analyst Frank Gillett about virtualization evolving into a mainstream market Robin Miller of Linux.com and Slashdot  interviews our very own Jon Travis on [...]

CloudStatus coverage continues while disgruntled San Franciscan blocks FiberWAN access… Hot off the press! Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer covers the CloudStatus announcement John Leyden writes about a peeved employee who blocked access to FiberWAN network, causing an uproar among San Francisco officials Glyn Moody discusses how cloud computers are deemed as “free [...]

Cloud coverage discussion still buzzing in today’s HyperLINKS… Some more news from Google Doc’s recent downtime…Stephen Shankland writes about the downtime, and the potential problems of applications moving to the cloud More discussion on the risks of cloud computing…Dennis Barker outlines the details Forrester research concludes that Europeans appreciate low costs but question the support [...]

Apple 3G iPhone is now available…the whole tech world has “almost” stopped More CloudStatus coverage…Stephen Shankland writes about cloud trust issues, includes Hyperic’s CloudStatus in the article with some quotes from Stacey In other news, Joe McKendrick writes about raised expectations for cloud computing, warning that vendors may not be able to deliver or meet [...]

Some more big news coming out of Yahoo! today. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: Larry Dignan writes about Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search Baseline’s Ericka Chickowski provides 10 steps towards simplifying systems management WashingtonPost.com says [...]

Happy Hump Day! Here are today’s headlines that we have been reading: Stories about Diane Greene departure from VMware keep on coming. Richard Adhikari writes about the shakedown at VMware, including assessment of the problems that contributed to Green’s departure In other news, Linda Tucci offers five reasons as to why cloud computing will continue [...]

If you’ll be joining us at OSCON this year, be sure and check out the Evolution of Community panel featuring yours truly. Over the past ten years, nothing has impacted business more than community. Whether through the openness of software development spurred by Linux or the dismantling of media empires through blogging, the rise of [...]

Very interesting headlines in today’s HyperLINKS. Here are Tuesday’s tidbits: VMware’s CEO and co-founder, Diane Green, has been let go and Paul Maritz (a former Microsoft Exec) is replacing her Larry Dignan writes about a study that has shown the staggering rise in enterprise IT investment since 1994, from $3.5k per employee then, to $8k [...]

It’s time for a new addition to the HQ 3.2 family.  HQ 3.2.4 is now available and ready for download. This release is a roll-up of the bug fixes since HQ 3.2.3. For a rundown of the fixes available in HQ 3.2.4, check out the Release Notes for the high level summary and a link [...]