This was an interesting article by Nick Carr that popped up in Google Reader today – it’s about the Bebo acquisition by AOL and how the founders have been rewarded handsomely, to the tune of $800 million, with diddly squat going to the artists who contributed site content. From the article: As for the millions [...]

Sys-Con just announced that Hyperic HQ has been nominated for this summer’s Reader’s Choice Awards. The category we were nominated for is Best Virtualization Platforms Monitoring & Reporting. The nomination process is open until Sunday June 22nd, and the voting period will be until November 15. The final results will be at the upcoming 4th [...]

Via 451 CAOS Theory, just learned that the Software Freedom Law Center settled its GPL infringement suit with Verizon. I’ll leave the details of the case as an exercise for the reader, but it basically involves a company not adhering to the terms of the GPL. As Jay Lyman of The 451 Group notes, this [...]

As I tossed away requests from pleading charities, climbed over some people to get the last bus seat, and rushed to push the close button on the elevator so as not to share the space with the person running through the lobby, I came across this list from Forbes of America’s greediest cities. As I [...]

Jonathan Bryce, co-founder of Mosso, is gaining lots of notoriety in the media for his expertise in deploying and managing a complex production environment that includes lots of virtualization. While Jonathan & team deserve their just glory for their achievements and pure smarts on the subject – Hyperic also manages to get a mention as [...]

If you still have not registered for today’s HyperCAST on OpenNMS and Hyperic HQ integration, you still have a couple of hours! You’ll get to hear David Hustace of OpenNMS and Charles Lee from Hyperic demo the new integration functionality they’re putting into both products. This should be a great one.Register for the HyperCAST. Note: [...]

As you probably know, Hyperic HQ is an agent-based system management system. That means there is an HQ Server component and a separate HQ Agent component. When you have the HQ Server on one platform and the HQ Agent on a different platform, you run into an interesting trust issue. The HQ Agent operates independent [...]

I love working in technology. One of the main reasons is because there are guaranteed to be at least three new things I see every day. This ranges from technology innovation (today, I am impressed by a boat powered by waves, although I definitely note it has not made a sail obsolete) to new business [...]

I love my job. For those that don’t know me too well, I have the privilege of looking after all outbound activity here at Hyperic. In that capacity I get to interact with the community, customers, press and analysts. Sometimes all at once. Thing is, I don’t get to see them that often – its [...]

I had the great pleasure of co-hosting one of Hyperic’s regular webinar series with Jonathan Bryce and Jason Bartels from Mosso. I have spent quite a bit of time with these guys over the past couple months, as Jonathan worked with me to build a case study. Through that experience, I became totally intrigued with [...]

Hyperic is pleased to accept the honor of having Hyperic HQ named as SourceForge.net’s project of the month for January 2008. The popular Hyperic HQ project has been hosted on Sourceforge.net since its launch just 18 months ago. With nearly 2 million registered users and more than 166,500 software projects, SourceForge.net is world’s largest Open [...]

The 4th beta for Hyperic HQ 3.2 has been released! We’re about to wrap up the HQ 3.2 beta process, so if you haven’t kicked the tires yet, you have a limited time to do so. Speak now or forever hold your peace. See the release notes: http://support.hyperic.com/confluence/display/DOC/HQ+3.2+Release+Notes Download here: http://www.hyperic.com/downloads/dl-hq-beta.html After downloading, share your [...]

It’s been a crazy week for us over here at Hyperic. We had partner announcements, board meetings, and big customer wins. In the middle of the usual ‘controlled chaos’ state that we operate in, I came across this recent post from Jesse Robbins over at O’Reilly Radar. For those of you who dont know Jesse [...]

The first release of Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta is now available for download. This exciting new release is designed to provide a more powerful “single pane of glass” to monitor, diagnose and manage today’s complex, custom, web-based IT environments. In addition, significant infrastructure enhancements to the core Hyperic HQ platform were added to deliver the [...]

The built-in HQ database is PostgreSQL. Recently, users have been discovering PostgreSQL has a certain limitation: it will not execute more than 2 billion transactions between vacuums. In rare cases, an HQ built-in database can get into this state. If this happens, the database will stop accepting connections and HQ, which needs a data store, [...]

Normally I don’t make a point of calling out other vendors by name, but this time I can’t resist. See, Oracle’s big party-turned-conference is this week. “Larry-fest” — I’ve heard it called by some cynics. I believe the tagline is something to the effect of “100,000 reasons to say thank you.” Thank you indeed, Oracle. [...]

It has been a couple of years since the Hyperic development team decided to adopt Macs and OS X as our standard development environment, probably around the time when my Toshiba Windows XP laptop was threatening to spiral itself into oblivion for the second time in as many years. Eventually, I paid a second $600+ [...]

Yesterday, Hyperic published a case study about Mosso, a division of Rackspace. Co-founder Jonathan Bryce tells a great story. They manage 30,000 websites and applications using a sophisticated architecture that is 100% clustered and 100% virtualized using VMware. Of course, the case study talks all about how Hyperic HQ is the software that made this [...]

Well, the name says it all. CMU names their car “Boss” and wins. Stanford calls it Junior and comes in second. I have to admit, it’s not easy being a Carnegie Mellon alumni… especially out here in Stanford territory. When CMU makes news, it’s because we win robot car races. Don’t get me wrong, I [...]

It was with much interest that I read a post on javalobby.org yesterday all about Leopard and its lack of a Java 6 package as well as a buggy Java 5. Hyperic being a software house that does much of its engineering in Java, as well as ardent fans of OS X, this was of [...]

In the spirit (pun intended) of Halloween, Hyperic sponsored a Nightmare on Web Street contest, where folks were encouraged to tell their grim tales of IT woe for a chance at trick-or-treating for a Wii! The day has come, and the contest winner has been selected. Without further ado, I would like to congratulate “Mr [...]

It’s a question we all wonder. Who will prove their technology team can crank out the best efforts in the industry? Who will be recognized for thier prowess in this fast-moving industry of open source software? To answer this question, we have devised an extremely competitive gauntlet to decide. The showdown begins tomorrow at 5:30 [...]

Enterprise Systems Management blogger John Willis recently attended a Tivoli user group (SOTUG) up in Canada, and met Brett Gillett, a veteran Tivoli user who has turned to Hyperic in the past couple years. Brett offered John a good perspective on why he made the switch and for what functionality. Acknowledging that Tivoli is [...]

When I first with Javier, Hyperic CEO, there were two things that struck me. One, Javier’s complete enthusiasm for the Hyperic HQ software and the team he was building, customers included. And two, he was right – Hyperic HQ actually provided real value to its users and customers through automating really tough processes and providing [...]

It’s become quite a tradition these last couple of years – whenever we are about to “spring forward” or “fall behind” it can only mean one thing: it’s time for another Ubuntu release. Indeed, Ubuntu 7.10, aka “gutsy gibbon” was released last Friday, October 19. Good thing Hyperic HQ is pretty flexible about these things [...]