I woke up this morning to discover even more coverage of our HQ for VMware piece from earlier this week. LinuxToday posted a blurb on the NetworkWorld article by Denise Dubie. Even better, Cate at ITManagement.com posted a nice writeup on our VMware management saying “Hyperic is ahead of its time.“

Doug MacEachern, our CTO and the founder of mod_perl, has posted an insightful article on TheServerSide.com about how we use virtualization in our dev environment. Doug also mentions how the internal use of VMware led to a transformed Hyperic HQ, our systems monitoring and management software, that is able to give admins visibility into their [...]

You may recall that we engaged with Fortify Software to do a full code audit of Hyperic HQ. Now, Fortify and the FindBugs project have teamed up on a new initiative, the Java Open Review Project. We’re proud to have Hyperic HQ as one of the charter open source projects. This is all about making [...]

Hyperic HQ 2.7.6 is an exciting frontier for Hyperic. With this release, we’ve added open source support of VMware Server, ESX, and GSX. dougm will be around later today to spell out what this release means in terms of VMware management, but suffice it to say that HQ now has more comprehensive monitoring of VMware [...]

You can find the press release here. You may have noticed that multiple companies have now decided to add Hyperic technology to their enterprise offerings. It turns out that integrated management capabilities are a big deal. Who knew? Those rascally IT ops managers don’t want to add anything to their data center that’s going to [...]

Jack Loftus has published an interview of Javier Soltero, Hyperic CEO, over at SearchOpenSource. In this interview, Javier gets to the heart of why open source is marching into the IT management arena: “There is a notion that as we roll more and more technology into the data center, you – administrators – end up [...]

JBoss, MySQL first to integrate Hyperic technology into their offerings SAN FRANCISCO – October 30, 2006 – Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open-source IT management, today announced a partner program that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to add enterprise-class, multi-platform IT management capabilities to their products. MySQL and JBoss are among the first companies [...]

My all time favorite distribution of Linux is Red Hat 6.2, yes, Red Hat 6.2. Hyperic’s HQ product includes binary versions of SIGAR for each supported platform. In general, that means one binary for each supported OS and architecture combination. Each binary supports a number of release for each OS, with the exception of FreeBSD [...]

Hyperic is happy to announce the latest version of the open source IT management platform, Hyperic HQ 2.7.5 (release notes). Note that existing customers should consult with support before contemplating an upgrade. For almost all customers, we recommend sticking with HQ 2.6.x, as bug fixes are maintained in both the 2.6 and 2.7 series. Download [...]

Hyperic HQ Undergoes Code Audit From Fortify SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management, today enhanced the security of its Hyperic HQ IT management platform with a comprehensive code audit, courtesy of Fortify Source Code Analysis. The audit, together with the addition of Fortify Source Code Analysis to Hyperic’s development [...]

Neil McAllister, editor extraordinaire at InfoWorld, gives BEA a tongue-lashing (keyboard-lashing?) for recent statements by Rob Levy, BEA CTO. Although I have to admit, I don’t see what the story is here. Here is another traditional proprietary company suddenly realizing that it’s market is collapsing beneath them, and then they lash out at open source [...]

With Latest Hyperic HQ Version, System Administrators Can More Easily Manage Heterogeneous Environments with Free Downloads SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management, today announced the availability of the latest version of Hyperic HQ. The new version adds Windows support to the eight operating systems and platforms already supported by [...]

Glyn Moody (of Rebel Code fame) posted a nice article on LWN.net (subscribers only) with a rundown of the companies that founded and now comprise the Open Management Consortium (OMC). And Glyn was kind enough to include this quote from yours truly: “The problem that existing management software strives to address – integrating with every [...]

Phil Wainright has written a post on his blog at ZDNet about the “commoditization of systems management.” Phil’s blog focuses on SaaS, so that’s his perspective when he discusses being able to manage systems from afar without the need for an agent (Hyperic HQ uses an agent-server architecture). There are a couple of points he [...]

Opening Move with Scott Mace, a series of podcasts on the Open Source Conversations channel, has just posted a podcast with Javier, “From Proprietary to Open Source“. It’s a wide-ranging discussion about Hyperic’s decision to release software under the GPL, why we chose the GPL, and with whom we compete. On the competitive landscape, Javier [...]

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Hyperic HQ 2.7.4. You may download this release from the SourceForge.net project page. Please read the release notes before proceeding! As always, report any issues on our Jira tracker and collaborate with other HQ users on our forums.

I somehow failed to see this the first time around, so this is a month late. Rob Lackey, Manager of Information Technology at SugarCRM, included us in his LinuxWorld roundup. Here’s the relevant snippet: ” 3) Hyperic – System Management with Open Source System management seemed to be a frequent theme for the show, with [...]

As Redmonk’s Cote has noted, Hyperic HQ has a couple of nice, simple RSS feeds built-in. These give you great flexbility when monitoring the status of your web infrastructure, allowing you to view the feeds from any RSS reader. Right now, those feeds are for trouble alerts and “favorites” – whatever systems, services or applications [...]

In yesterday’s post about the ITManagement.com interview with Javier, you may have noticed this bit: “Sure. [picks up a pen and draws what looks like a capital "E"] Every product has a unique management interface that we’ll represent by this figure. The deeper the grooves, the more manageable the software, and the more closely your [...]

You may now get all the source code you want from a read-only Subversion repository on SourceForge.net. Here’s the command: svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hyperic-hq hyperic-hq Enjoy!

Stephen Walli, of Optaros, has taken a liking to Hyperic lately. After meeting him at OSCON and then running into him again at LinuxWorld, it was interesting to listen to him talk about how cool Hyperic is. And now he’s blogging about us. Basically, the main thrust is thus… – Hyperic wants community-contributed plugins, and [...]

HYPERIC HQ SURPASSES 10,000 DOWNLOADS IN 60 DAYS Open Source IT Management Platform Will Be Demo’ed at LinuxWorld Expo SAN FRANCISCO, CA –August 15, 2006 – Hyperic, Inc., announced today that Hyperic HQ, the first open source platform for managing all commercial and open source components of the web infrastructure and the first IT management [...]

Hyperic is pleased to announce the release of HQ 2.7.3. This marks the first GPL release with binaries for supported platforms: Linux x86, Linux AMD64, Solaris SPARC, Win 32, HPUX PA-RISC, and OSX PPC Get your fresh source and binary releases from sourceforge.net.

Greetings fellow Hypericons, You’ll be happy to note that we now have a live subversion repository for HQ: svn co http://svn.hyperic.org/projects/hq To browse the source tree, go to svn.hyperic.org/?root=Hyperic+HQ

As of last week, the cat is officially out of the bag, as Hyperic has released HQ under the GNU GPL. You can read our release and outside media coverage about it here (ZDNET) here (SYS-CON) and here (InfoWorld).