vFabric Hyperic weaves performance management into cloud applications

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 [...]

[ More ] September 1st, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Events, Hyperic HQ |

Monitoring Complex AJAX Applications

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 [...]

[ More ] March 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Events |

Visit Hyperic at SCaLE 7x

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 [...]

[ More ] February 19th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Events |

AWS Loves CloudStatus – Proof!

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 [...]

[ More ] August 8th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in CloudStatus, Events, IT Industry |

HyperLINKS July 31, 2008

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 [...]

[ More ] July 31st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Events, Hyperic HQ |

24 Hours at OSCON

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. [...]

[ More ] July 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community, Events |

The Evolution of Community

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 [...]

[ More ] July 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Events, IT Industry |

Velocity Wraps Up

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 [...]

[ More ] June 25th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in CloudStatus, Events |

Part the Clouds

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

[ More ] June 23rd, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in CloudStatus, Events, IT Industry |

HyperLINKS June 12, 2008

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 [...]

[ More ] June 12th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Events, Hyperic HQ |

Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting

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 [...]

[ More ] April 21st, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Events, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

MySQL Conference, Chapter 2

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 [...]

[ More ] April 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Events, IT Industry |

Video: Javier Soltero at the Linux Foundation Summit

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.

[ More ] April 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Community, Events, Hyperic HQ |

Hyperic at Lug Radio Live!

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, [...]

[ More ] April 8th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Events, IT Industry |

Getting Ready for OSBC

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 [...]

[ More ] March 18th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Events, IT Industry |

Blogging From SCALE

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:

[ More ] February 9th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Community, Events |

Elvis is in the Building: thoughts from LISA 07

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 [...]

[ More ] November 16th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Events |

It’s Official: Hyperic = Open Source World Domination

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: [...]

[ More ] November 7th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Events, Javiers Blog |

Wii Smackdown… Mule Asks For More ‘Prep’ Time

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 [...]

[ More ] October 24th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Events, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

What’s Your Worst Ops Nightmare?

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 [...]

[ More ] October 16th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Events, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Time To Kick Some Mule

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 [...]

[ More ] October 5th, 2007 | 4 Comments | Posted in Events |

Hyperic HQ 3.1 Wins Best Systems Management Tool

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! [...]

[ More ] August 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Events, IT Industry, PRs |

OSCON 2007

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 [...]

[ More ] July 23rd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Events |

LinuxWorld Expo – August 7 – 9, San Francisco

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.

[ More ] June 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Events |

Charles Lee's Database Performance Talk from CommunityOne

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 [...]

[ More ] May 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Events, Hyperic HQ |
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