I just got back from 3 days off. In startup-land, that is virtually akin to 3 weeks. However, upon my return I was humbled by how much got done without me. In fact, really – how much even got done without a Hyperic employee. It is no secret Hyperic’s community is growing. We now have [...]

In the spirit of David Letterman (one often imitated by yours truly), the folks at Gartner Research have released the list of “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008″. The thing I find most interesting about this list is how truly un-new it is. My first reaction when reading it was “I thought most of this [...]

You may have heard Javier talk about our “BRE” software, which stands for Best Release Ever. It is what we call every one of our releases (yes, we have another one shaping up for this winter!). So, after our release last week, the team got together on Friday night to celebrate. Of course, as we [...]

Hyperic customer deployments are growing at a tremendous pace – they’re scaling out managing thousands of resources with 10s of thousands of metrics and events being tracked every minute. In this kind of environment, scale is an absolute requirement and something that takes sound technical architecture, talented engineering, and most of all, maturity in the [...]

What a great name for an award… punchy, accurate acronym along with an irresistible pun! We found out this morning that Hyperic was listed among the 4 ‘finalists’ of the award. Despite Infoworld’s decision not to publish a winner until they finish deeper reviews of each product, we’re eager to see the results. In the [...]

Hyperic days are generally very full days. So I sympathize with Dave Rosenberg’s apathy for blogging some days. Generally when I blog, I prefer to discuss a unique perspective on a meaningful topic that is relevant to today’s greater conversation. I have lots of these thoughts every day. What I don’t have is time. When [...]

I’ve always liked the word “enterprise”… even before I got into the software business. Star Trek references aside, the translation for the word enterprise in Spanish (my native language) is “empresa” which is just another word for “company”. Somehow in English, and especially in technology, the term Enterprise has always implied some larger, more complex [...]

One of the best parts about my job is seeing the HQ footprint increase on a daily basis. Sometimes it’s just the little things that make me happy. Like this job description for a unix system administrator. It reads like your usual sysadmin job description, until you get to this part: Restructuring the shared hosting [...]

IT Administrators have a love and hate relationship with alerts. They don’t want to miss any important outages or performance problems, because their jobs depend on it. However, those issues have a tendency to surface at 2am in the morning. Hyperic HQ may collect vast amounts of monitoring data from the IT infrastructure, but the [...]

Hyperic is happy to announce the first beta of HQ 3.1. Be sure to download the beta and give it a spin. This release will include the following new features: Expanded Alert Features Introduces the Alert Center for central management of alerts in a flat hierarchy, Alert Resolutions descriptions track how to resolve problems, expanded [...]

We’ve always been great at giving our customers the ability to manage their VMware servers and guest VM’s, but now we’ve taken the extra step of creating a ready-to-run VMware appliance. Basic platform: Debian 4.0 HQ version: 3.0.5-417 OS Basic install: Have VMware player installed (or server) Start the appliance and login either as root [...]

Come one, come all, and grab the Hyperic HQ 3.0.5, the latest and greatest from our engineering gurus. This version adds support for VMware Server on x86_64 Linux, fixes a couple of WebLogic issues, and improves performance. See the release notes and download now! Download Hyperic HQ 3.0.5

I love it when a community comes together! This morning I came across this blog post all about how easy it is to set up Tomcat monitoring on Ubuntu with HQ. As a bonus, the same process appears to apply to Nexenta, an OpenSolaris-based distribution, as well. You know your software is useful when people [...]

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 [...]

The Hyperic team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Hyperic HQ 3.0.4. This release marks some significant performance enhancements. See the full release notes and download today!

I just got off the phone with Jack Loftus, of TechTarget, and he was asking me some very pointed and insightful questions on open source business models. I’m sure he felt my enthusiasm on the subject as I highlighted some of the antiquated theories of what makes a good Open Source company and good Open [...]

Europe is catching on to Hyperic HQ, and this article in IDG.se proves it! It’s in Swedish, but we’ll give you the overview in English. Niklas Andersson comments on the continued progress of Web 2.0 and, like the O’Reilly Radar, notes how Web 2.0 is essentially a synonym for composite applications built on Open Source [...]

It’s a busy time at Hyperic. Here’s a rundown of what we released today: Hyperic HQ 3.0.2 – Here’s the latest rev of our Open Source systems management software. This release has more efficient database utilization, improving performance. Download from SourceForge.net. Support is now available for HQ! See details. Hyperic HQ 3.0 Enterprise Extensions – [...]

At Hyperic, usability is always our biggest concern, which is why Hyperic HQ is the easiest systems management software to get running. Now we’re going to make plugin development for HQ as easy as possible. We’ve created a separate release on SourceForge.net just for our plugin repository and development kit, which includes the most popular [...]

We just received word from the fine folks at EnterpriseDB they they have certified their database product for use with Hyperic HQ. Previously, we certified only Oracle and PostgreSQL as database backends. This is not to be confused, by the way, with database products we enable our customers to monitor and manage. That list includes [...]

Attention all 3.0 Beta Users. As you may have noticed, Hyperic has released our first Release Candidate for 3.0. That means the official release is coming very soon! We would really like to hear from you what your thoughts are on this beta product and the release process. And for any of you that would [...]

This beta features a less-buggy migration to Hibernate. See the release notes. As usual, download from SourceForge.net. There are still some issues with IE browsers, but they should be mitigated somewhat. After fiddling around with the beta, ask any questions in our specially-marked beta forum. warning: this is a beta and not intended for production [...]

HQ 3.0 Beta3 is now available for download. Changes include UI bugfixes for IE users. Please give us feedback on your experience with the 3.0 betas. check out the beta forum read the release notes file a bug

Come and get it – sourceforge.net/projects/hyperic-hq This release fixes some alert escalation bugs.

The first binary releases of HQ 3.0 beta have now appeared on SourceForge.net. Grab them, see the release notes, discuss in the HQ beta forum, and remember to submit bugs in our tracker. Hyperic HQ 3.0 marks a significant upgrade over HQ 2.7.x, with the following functionality added to open source HQ: Operations Dashboard ­ [...]