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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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! [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]