Hyperic HQ and Gutsy Gibbon

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 [...]

[ More ] October 24th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

Wii Smackdown… Mule Asks For More ‘Prep’ Time

Well, we were expecting our good friends from MuleSource to show up tomorrow. As it turns out, they’ve asked for a postponement in order to accomodate the arrival of Dave’s tag-team partner Ross. Not sure how much Wii Tennis Ross is bringing to the fold, but we’ll be more than happy to give them more [...]

[ More ] October 24th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Events, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Hows and Whys are the Who’s Who of Ops

I had a pretty fabulous week this week as I got to go to a meeting with some of the most sophisticated website operations teams in the world. I can’t name names, but I did ask one of them if I could write up his conversation at dinner last night. He said yes, so here [...]

[ More ] October 24th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Growing a Global Community

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 [...]

[ More ] October 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

What’s Your Worst Ops Nightmare?

Some days feel like walking nightmares to the ops folks that power the websites we all take for granted. I’m sure the folks at 365 Main enjoyed their 24 hour outage crisis. Skype’s outage became a worldwide headline for 3 days. Not all website outages are headliners, but all of them are painful for the [...]

[ More ] October 16th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Events, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Nobel Prize Implies Open Source is a Perfect Market

I have a degree in Economics, however, I have never actually worked as an Economist. I am still interested though, and religiously read all the reports on the Fed, the business section of the newspaper, and once a year, the winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics. This year, Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger [...]

[ More ] October 16th, 2007 | 5 Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

SaaS fueled the OSS fire

My friend Dave Rosenberg got me thinking this morning about the market dynamics of closed source, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Open Source Software (OSS). In his post on InfoWorld, Dave muses on the differences of SaaS vs OSS. He cites that there are relatively few standouts in SaaS and many shining stars in OSS. I have [...]

[ More ] September 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in IT Industry |

Infoworld Gets BOSSie on Hyperic (Or is it the Other Way Around?)

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 [...]

[ More ] September 10th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

The XenSource Acquisition & the Debate on the Death of Open Source or the Victory?

Huge news today. Citrix has agreed to acquire XenSource for a whopping $500 Million dollars. In the wake of this news, I figured I’d offer some commentary and a perspective. First, as a sister investment company (XenSource and Hyperic are backed by Accel Partners and share Larry Augustin as a board member), I am excited [...]

[ More ] August 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

August Newsletter

Our August newsletter is out. In this issue, you’ll find updates on HQ 3.1, our HQ 3.1 Enterprise Beta release, triumph at LinuxWorld, a case study with eHarmony, new plugins galore, and a bunch more. Read the newsletter here. Sign up for future newsletters.

[ More ] August 14th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Hyperic HQ 3.1 Wins Best Systems Management Tool

I just wanted to pipe in and let everyone know that there is exactly one winner of Best Systems Management Tool at LinuxWorld Expo. And that winner is, of course, Hyperic HQ 3.1! See the press release here. Here is photo evidence: (from left to right: Stacey, John Mark, and Javier) Hail to the victors! [...]

[ More ] August 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Events, IT Industry, PRs |

A Different Kind of Enterprise

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 [...]

[ More ] July 23rd, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Stay Alert!

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 [...]

[ More ] July 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Hyperic HQ, IT Industry |

Matt Asay Gets in the Trenches With Ryan Morgan

Matt Asay has posted a great profile of our very own Ryan Morgan, Hyperic co-founder, Chief Software Architect, and the most talented Hyperican with a golf club. He was also a driving force behind Apache’s mod_ftp. Go Ryan – you can’t stop him, you can only hope to contain him.

[ More ] July 5th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry, PRs |

Mysterious “Computer Glitches” Strike Again

This week there are a couple scary headlines that affected millions of people, all of which were blamed on the infamous “computer glitches.” FAA Computer Glitch Causes Flight Delays – read full article United Airlines suffers computer glitch – ZDNET Blog I don’t know the specifics of these “glitches” but I suspect you really can’t [...]

[ More ] June 20th, 2007 | 7 Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Doug MacEachern on SYS-CON.TV

Doug MacEachern, Hyperic’s CTO, was interviewed by Roger Strukhoff, Group Publisher and Editorial Director of SYS-CON Media. Here’s the video of that encounter: Video webcast from SYS-CON.TV. See original page of Doug’s interview.

[ More ] June 14th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Hyperic and the "New Wave" of Management

Jack Hughes, of OPENXTRA Limited, a privately held network management VAR in the UK, has been writing a series this week on the “New Wave” of systems management. Jack touched on an important topic today when evaluating vendors: “One of the odd things about the three new wave players is that, of the three, only [...]

[ More ] June 14th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Open Source Business 3 + 3

Stephen Walli was kind enough to request my opinion on 3 success factors and 3 things to avoid when building an open source business. It’s hard to beat Stephen’s 3, I agree with all of them – one of the most gratifying being the user is in control, acting as a catalyst to spread the [...]

[ More ] June 11th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |

Dan Kusnetzky on Hyperic and Virtualization

Dan Kusnetzky, the “Virtual Man” and former analyst with IDC, has written a great article, based on a conversation with Javier, that’s all about our approach to managing virtualization. A few highlights: The two major pillars upon which [Hyperic] built their plans were to avoid dependencies on any specific hardware architecture or operating system. This [...]

[ More ] June 8th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Javier Soltero Featured in LatinConnect Magazine

I was pleasantly surprised to come across this feature on Javier Soltero, Hyperic CEO, in The LatinConnect Magazine. Lots of good stuff there: What’s in store for the future? Big things! We’re growing in all directions – product, customers and employees. We aim to be the undisputed leader in a busy and emerging marketplace for [...]

[ More ] May 30th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Paul Roberts at InfoWorld Profiles Hyperic

Paul Roberts at InfoWorld has written a great piece featuring Hyperic as part of his “Month of Enterprise Startups” series. The article features a nice recap of Hyperic’s beginnings and what we’ve been able to accomplish since. From the article: Since launching in July 2006, the Hyperic product has been downloaded more than 75,000 times [...]

[ More ] May 22nd, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

Charles’ 3rd in the Hibernate Migration Series

Charles Lee’s 3rd article on our migration from EJB2 to Hibernate is now available for your reading pleasure. In this tale of creating a database-independent application, Charles gives details on creating the database schema, populating the data, upgrading to your newly-created database schema, and coding nuances that result from a Hibernate transition, particularly with respect [...]

[ More ] May 21st, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in IT Industry |

More JavaOne Highlights

There were a couple of interviews of Hyperic executives. SYS-CON TV interviewed Doug MacEachern, the video of which is not yet available. Also, James Governor and Michael Cote of Redmonk stopped by to interview Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. They covered a lot of ground, including what’s coming up in future releases of Hyperic HQ, the [...]

[ More ] May 11th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Events, IT Industry |

Highlights From JavaOne

It was quite a week at JavaOne here in San Francisco, what with recent announcements on OpenJDK, and Java FX. Hyperic had a booth on the floor, a pod in the .orgZone, and a pod and talk at CommunityOne. Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, gave a talk on Monday at CommunityOne about how we [...]

[ More ] May 11th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Events, IT Industry |

Open Source Think Tank Redux

I had meant to write up my thoughts on this a month ago, but they got buried…Thankfully, the Olliance Group published their summary on the event to remind me to put my thoughts out on it as well. To see theirs – check out their site thinktank.olliancegroup.com. First, let me say I’m inherently skeptical of [...]

[ More ] May 9th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in IT Industry, Javiers Blog |