I would like to issue a hearty congratulations to the App Engine team on their recent announcements of quota and dashboard improvements.  We work with many, many software teams, and out of them all, the App Engine team stands out as a bunch of folks excited about making web application development easier, and pushing the [...]

After almost 12 months of design and development, I am proud to announce the general availability of HQ 4.0! Now past its 5th year of production usage, it’s incredibly cool for me to see how this product has evolved from what we conceived back in 2002. With the help of hundreds of customers and thousands [...]

IDC confirmed my amateur predictions that the current economic turmoil will indeed be very good for those looking to the cloud. Both from a user perspective, as well as a vendor perspective. In fact, IDC’s Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst, is predicting adoption will accelerate due to market pressures in a recent [...]

Cloud Computing has been a much used and misunderstood term. You know its become mainstream when it attracts pundits of the caliber of Larry Ellison, who last week confessed his own confusion during an anti-cloud computing rant: Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s [...]

Hyperic 3.2.5! The latest release of Hyperic HQ, 3.2.5, is live and chock full of the good stuff. Notable changes and additions include: Changes in a platform’s fully qualified domain name are autodiscovered, the new JMX console allows you to display and control MBeans and troubleshoot JVM issues, script actions for alerts, metric display auto-reset [...]

A bit dated, but I finally got a break from conferences to watch all the great videos that were made about CloudStatus. Amazon AWS Loves CloudStatus.com, Here’s The Proof (Hyperic Video 2/2) from Toon Vanagt on Vimeo. My favorite is Virtualization.com’s for a few reasons: Trav still had the mohawk in that video. Yes, people [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 looks like Google Apps suffered a brief outage this morning. How did we find out? Well, from Valleywag of course. After all, the best place to get the status of key cloud based applications and infrastructure is also the same place where you can find out the latest gossip about the valley. Seems natural, [...]

After the long weekend, HyperLINKS are back! Here are today’s top stories: InfoWorld’s Ephraim Schwartz writes about the lack of standardization and security for the cloud And in more cloud news, George Crump writes about cloud storage, mentioning that storage solutions will need to be able to scale, as well as be reliable as companies [...]

Hyperic Launches CloudStatus Hyperic is pleased to extend the capabilities of Hyperic HQ with cloud monitoring. Use CloudStatus to monitor your Amazon AWS cloud performance. Part the Clouds Learn More Clouds Are No Substitute For Competence Hyperic CEO, Javier Soltero explains the cloudy nature of distributed computing during his Velocity keynote. When there’s an outage, [...]

The Velocity Conference wrapped up yesterday. It was a sold out show – and just the kind of crowd that we like to see! The whole conference was based on web operations, and the conference goers were very enthusiastic. Many of the sessions were standing room only. It was personally great for me to be [...]

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