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 [...]

Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Management and Professional Services, 2009” report by analysts Milind Govekar, Cameron Haight, David W. Cearley and Lydia Leong references Hyperic as the vendor to talk to about your cloud management initiatives. Gartner’s report states that key innovation in cloud computing management will be provided by startup vendors. According to [...]

Kevin Burton’s New Feedblog wants help finding good open source software for IT monitoring.  Although Mr. Burton needs an IT monitoring solution, almost anybody making a software choice faces the same challenge. Not so long ago, when a business decided to solve a problem with software, the calculus was simpler: make or buy. Software products [...]

We at Hyperic have been speaking with lots of companies about their plans to move various development efforts into the cloud.  Over the last few years our strongest relationships have been with operations teams and systems administrators, but since launching Cloudstatus and our AMI version of Hyperic HQ we are speaking with more and more [...]

IDC confirmed my amateur predictions that the current economic turmoil will indeed be very good for those looking to the cloud. Both from a user perspective, as well as a vendor perspective. In fact, IDC’s Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst, is predicting adoption will accelerate due to market pressures in a recent [...]

Cloud Computing has been a much used and misunderstood term. You know its become mainstream when it attracts pundits of the caliber of Larry Ellison, who last week confessed his own confusion during an anti-cloud computing rant: Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s [...]

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 [...]

On this most hallowed and revered holiday, we decided to salute the unsung and often unwashed heroes of IT the only way we know how… by poking a little fun at the Real Men of Geekness. So, here’s to you, Mr. Underappreciated Sys Admin Guy (or Gal).

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 [...]

Very interesting headlines in today’s HyperLINKS. Here are Tuesday’s tidbits: VMware’s CEO and co-founder, Diane Green, has been let go and Paul Maritz (a former Microsoft Exec) is replacing her Larry Dignan writes about a study that has shown the staggering rise in enterprise IT investment since 1994, from $3.5k per employee then, to $8k [...]

After the long weekend, HyperLINKS are back! Here are today’s top stories: InfoWorld’s Ephraim Schwartz writes about the lack of standardization and security for the cloud And in more cloud news, George Crump writes about cloud storage, mentioning that storage solutions will need to be able to scale, as well as be reliable as companies [...]

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

(Obligatory Pink Floyd reference included) This afternoon we get another data point showing that despite the exciting promise of cloud computing, the realities of managing large scale infrastructure insist on rearing their ugly heads. TechCrunch is reporting that Google Apps had an outage today which caused the service to be completely down. There’s two serious [...]

From time to time, I think about what the definition of a small company is vs a big company. Many know I came from Siebel, a big company that was swallowed up by an even bigger company Oracle. I have been at Hyperic for a couple years now, and when I started we were assuredly [...]

I just saw that Atlassian, the provider of the essential community tools like Confluence wiki and JIRA ticket system, updated their wiki on the importance of monitoring the “lifeblood of your organization”. They even outline the important monitoring tasks you need, and stress that it will help when dealing with their own world class support. [...]

Joe Hernick from InfoWorld released a new report today with some surprising data. The New Sprawl: Managing Virtual Server Environments, published today, Joe announced that only 2% of the 323 InfoWorld Respondents were using a virtualization management strategy that reconciled the physical to the virtual servers (P2V). A whopping 27% were using a “wink and [...]

Once again, SourceForge.net is holding its annual community choice awards. As a former SourceForge.net worker bee, it’s great to be able to utilize what we built at VA Linux all those years ago. So, if you’re a fan of Hyperic HQ – and if you’re not, you really should be – nominate us in one [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately talking to the management team here at Hyperic about the subject of search. Specifically, Google search since its what most of our users tend to find us with. (No disrespect to our good friends at Ask.com whose search engine seems to be less popular with the sysadmin [...]

Today, Hyperic is sharing an exciting new plugin as part of our ongoing preview of Hyperic HQ 4.0. The beauty of this plugin is it actually supports TWO products: Oracle Application Server Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J) As a relative new-comer to the Hyperic Engineering team, I would like to use this opportunity to introduce [...]

The good things keep happening every day here at Hyperic. Today’s good news is that Barry Klawans has officially joined our team! Many of you know Barry as the co-founder and longtime CTO of JasperSoft. Barry recently took leave of JasperSoft to find something that let him enjoy his family more. However, for those of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to Marten Mickos deliver the opening keynote at the MySQL conference here in Santa Clara. As usual, Marten does an enviable job at delivering a presentation which talks about MySQL’s business, its new relationship with Sun Microsystems, and what this all has to do with Open Source. I’ve [...]

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, [...]

[via the good folks at Engadget] This has to be the most unique use of data center energy ever devised. It seems IBM has opted to use excess heat from a new facility in Uitikon, Switzerland to heat a nearby swimming pool. Use this: To warm this: The article from the AP states: In a [...]