We are proud to announce that the former Hyperic Forums have been successfully migrated to a new Hyperic VMware Community. As stated in a blog late last year, this is an important milestone for Hyperic users worldwide. This marks the final step in the transition of the customer experience into the larger family of products [...]

UPDATE: Migration will now start on January 31st, at 6 pm PST. On February 1st, we will migrate the independent Hyperic Forums over to the overall VMware Communities.  All forums, messages, threads, announcements and reward points will be migrated over to a new Hyperic VMware Community. User history will be attached based on email address. [...]

November is a big month for Hyperic customers! Earlier this month, we announced the general availability of Hyperic as part of the new VMware vFabric Application Performance Management solution that is leading VMware’s application management vision. We are also excited to announce that in early 2012, the Hyperic Forums will be migrating to incorporate them [...]

Hyperic + Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry is the revolutionary open platform as a service from VMware that supports multiple frameworks, application services, and clouds. The vFabric Hyperic team is pleased to announce the availability of the free Cloud Foundry plugin for Hyperic that brings Hyperic’s proven ability to monitor, alert, and control application infrastructure resources [...]

As of this week, organizations using the popular Zimbra next generation email and collaboration solution, can download a new VMware Zimbra Appliance that is set up for simplified management and monitoring with vFabric Hyperic. Requiring no additional setup, Hyperic gives Zimbra admins instant visibility to be able to pinpoint, correct, and prevent application performance problems [...]

The latest release for our award winning web application monitoring and management software, VMware vFabric Hyperic 4.5, is now available for download! Coming just three months after our 4.4 release, and five months after our 4.3 release, this release builds on previous releases for the Hyperic 4 family and focuses on updating the underlying infrastructure to a modern, lightweight, and modular architecture. Taking advantage of the deep capabilities of both the Spring java application framework and Apache Tomcat servlet container, the Hyperic development team has improved performance and streamlined development time for future features and provided faster turnaround for bug fixes.

Every year, InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Awards (aka Bossies) are selected by the InfoWorld  editors and reviewers. Bossie categories include application development, middleware, applications, and of course monitoring. We’re pleased to announce that VMware vFabric Hyperic has won a 2010 Bossie for best monitoring software! We appreciate the recognition, since it is a [...]

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 [...]

VMware SpringSource engineer Jon Travis was interviewed by InfoQ a few weeks ago on application monitoring with Hyperic and Spring Insight. You can find the interview here.

Javier Soltero was recently interviewed by BSMdigest on the history of VMware Hyperic, and the motivations that drove its development. The article highlights why today’s enterprise web applications require a different approach to management than what’s provided by the Big Four systems management vendors, and how Hyperic implements that approach. You can read the interview here.

The Hyperic product team is pleased to announce the general availability of Hyperic 4.4, featuring enhanced integration with VMware vCenter Server. Thanks to this integration, Hyperic now maintains a continually updated inventory of VMware vSphere ESXi and ESX hosts, enabling IT Administrators to more rapidly pinpoint, correct, and prevent application performance problems wherever they occur [...]

If you manage applications running on virtual infrastructure, you should check out two articles. The first describes how virtualization changes everything about systems and application performance management. The second describes the top five features to look for in virtualized application management. These articles describe how virtualized environments are much more dynamic from legacy physical server [...]

The Hyperic product team is pleased to announce the general availability of SpringSource Hyperic 4.3. This release contains a number of features and updates that our customers and users have requested. Hyperic Open Source 4.3 features include: SNMP version 3 — improved support for SNMP v3 authentication, plus SNMP v3 privacy services support. Extended Windows [...]

After many months of tireless hard work and ingenuity, SpringSource Hyperic HQ 4.2.0 is finally ready to find a home in your very own data center.  This major release brings some pretty exciting new features to the product, and incorporates some cool tricks we learned from our SpringSource family.  Please take a look at the [...]

Even though we were all a bit busy last week with a certain major announcement, Hyperic is pleased to announce the release of HQ 4.1.2, the second maintenance release in the SpringSource HQ 4.1 family.  As with all maintenance releases, this release fixes bugs since the last release and enhancements to existing functionality. You can [...]

It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the newest member of the HQ family, HQ 4.1.1! This is the first maintenance release in the HQ 4.1 series. You can get 4.1.1 here. Enjoy! And as always, thanks to the many users, customers, and engineers that contributed to this release.

The latest release of Hyperic HQ, 4.1 is live and full of the features and updates that our customers and the community have asked us for. Thank you to our community members who spent many hours hammering the 4.1 beta release over the past few weeks and got us to this point of a solid [...]

Attention all beta testers.  We are very pleased to announce the availability of HQ 4.1 beta for download. Now is your chance to become part of the next dot release of Hyperic HQ! We value your input and appreciate any comments, bugs or problems you may find. Not only does this make HQ 4.1 a [...]

For those of you who want a sneak peek into our upcoming 4.1 release of Hyperic HQ, look no further. Over the past several months, we have spent a lot of time listening to our customers which has helped sculpt and drive this upcoming release of Hyperic HQ. On top of that, we have decided to [...]

Recently we were reading up on our favorite hobby, ogling at WebOps Visualization (so what? we’re geeks), and we came across this post by Jesse Robbins from the O’Reilly Radar that got us thinking about the enormous amounts of data and visualization going on in our very own HQ user base. Some of the most [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.3 is the second maintenance release in the 4.0 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.2. Go get it! To find out what goodies await you in 4.0.3, please checkout [...]

// < ![CDATA[ window.location.href='http://blog-staging.hyperic.com/'; // ]]> This morning we announced the latest addition to our monitoring suite, Hyperic Operations IQ. It’s basically a very powerful and unique reporting suite providing business intelligence for IT and web operation personnel. Hyperic IQ allows you to report on any metrics, any resources, in any data center with support [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.2 is the first maintenance release in the 4.0 series (for those keeping score at home, 4.0.1 was our GA release), and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.1. Go get it! [...]

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 [...]

Paul McDonald and the App Engine Team spent some time gathering some video case studies of developers who have created scalable web applications on Google’s App Engine. Included are Dave Westwood of BuddyPoke, Charles Ying from PixVerse, and of course – Hyperic’s own Jon Travis on CloudStatus: