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 [...]

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 [...]

SCaLE 7x is the premier Open Source Community conference in the southwestern US. It’s taking place at the Westin LAX Hotel which is the same venue as last year. Registration begins at 8am (yes it’s early but not my idea!) with the keynote starting at 9am. The agenda is packed with great sessions and speakers and Hyperic [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As the world moves to cloud computing, service level insight gets foggier. Don’t let your performance get lost in the clouds. www.cloudstatus.com

Hyperic headlines today’s news, but as usual Yahoo! is all over everybody else’s news… Michael Vizard writes about the need for change in IT management as cloud computing becomes increasingly commonplace, citing Hyperic as a company that is helping to create this new approach to IT management Get your download finger ready! Mozilla confirmed its [...]

This phrase was used close to a dozen times by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com at his recent keynote at the MySQL conference. Werner used it to describe the day to day tasks of most web operations teams… tasks like racking boxes, configuring routers, and installing software. He mentioned ops teams at Amazon got to [...]

The team just finished our second successful MySQL Con. Many thanks to Marten & Zack and all the folks at O’Reilly that put on such a great conference. This year definitely had a different feel, and of course that had a lot to do with Sun’s influence. It felt like it was almost a new [...]

The Linux Foundation is holding their Collaboration Summit in Austin, TX this week. After browsing through some of the videos, I was pleasantly surprised to see Javier getting an interview.

We are positively stoked to be going to this weekend’s Lug Radio Live in San Francisco! Lug Radio Live (LRL) will be held on April 12 and 13 at the Metreon on 4th and Howard, which you’ll note is approximately 2 blocks from Hyperic headquarters. LRL features a who’s who of prominent Open Source luminaries, [...]

I was quite startled to learn yesterday that next week is OSBC (the Open Source Business Conference). As in, 7 days from now. We’ve got a few things going on at this year’s edition. Javier will appear in the panel I’ll Show You My Forge If You Show Me Yours at 10:30am on Wednesday, March [...]

It’s been an eventful day at SCALE, with lots of interesting attendees, Linux toddlers, and our first SCALE casualty (RIP Firefly helicopter!) Our beautiful booth: It flies! When Linux toddlers run wild: Oh sure, he looks cute now… If only you had seen him wrecking helicopter carnage:

Once again, it was an interesting time at USENIX LISA. It never fails – whenever I come to this conference, I’m always humbled by the brainpower of those hobnobbing around. The intellectual density is quite high. This year’s version of LISA was held at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas. I arrived in Dallas on Tuesday [...]

Almost a week late but for those of you who were curious about our Wii challenge… Last week, some of the best and brightest open source companies in the bay area congregated at Hyperic Headquarters, and played a spirited game of Wii Tennis to vie for the title of Open Source Champion and its prize: [...]

Well, we were expecting our good friends from MuleSource to show up tomorrow. As it turns out, they’ve asked for a postponement in order to accomodate the arrival of Dave’s tag-team partner Ross. Not sure how much Wii Tennis Ross is bringing to the fold, but we’ll be more than happy to give them more [...]

Some days feel like walking nightmares to the ops folks that power the websites we all take for granted. I’m sure the folks at 365 Main enjoyed their 24 hour outage crisis. Skype’s outage became a worldwide headline for 3 days. Not all website outages are headliners, but all of them are painful for the [...]

My good buddy Dave Rosenberg has gone from blogging once a quarter to now picking fights on podcasts. He’s followed Matt Asay’s lead in every chance he can to call out my Wii Tennis skills… The most recent incident was in his second installment of Open Season. Given that I consider the Wii to be [...]

I just wanted to pipe in and let everyone know that there is exactly one winner of Best Systems Management Tool at LinuxWorld Expo. And that winner is, of course, Hyperic HQ 3.1! See the press release here. Here is photo evidence: (from left to right: Stacey, John Mark, and Javier) Hail to the victors! [...]

The Open Source Convention is always an entertaining mix of the old guard and those new to open source. I look forward to crashing quite a few talks this year and mixing it up a bit. If you happen to be there, feel free to drop me a line at johnmark _at_ hyperic.com. And it [...]

Hyperic will have a booth at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, from August 7 to 9. We will post the booth number when it’s finalized.

Here’s the PDF of Charles’ presentation on improving database performance for an application. In this case, he goes through our migration away from EJB2 to Hibernate and how we managed to squeeze better performance from PostgreSQL. As he mentions, database performance tuning is often about tuning the app to make more efficient use of the [...]