I am very pleased to announce, that among all the systems management vendors who are going to be at Linux World, the event producers, IDG World Expo, and the judging staff from LinuxWorld.com, have selected Hyperic HQ 3.1, as a finalist for the Best Systems Management Tool Award. This is especially exciting as it is [...]

The 451 Group just released a report, Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management, which focuses on how the big 4 management vendors are ripe for a shake-up. This is not all that surprising to me, as Hyperic has based its business plan on the opportunity in this market and it is [...]

Its that time of year again. Yes, a very SAAD day, indeed. That is, Sys Admin Appreciation Day! On this day, I encourage all you “users” out there to follow 10 simple rules to really show your appreciation: 1. Remember your password 2. Fix your printer yourself. 3. If you get the message “Critical System [...]

This has been quite possibly one of the most exciting days to work at Hyperic. And by that, I mean 609 Mission Street, on the corner of 2nd Street in San Francisco, not necessarily the company. Its such a surreal day, I just have to share. The day starts off with an apparent dead guy [...]

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 [...]

Today marks the one year anniversary of the release of Hyperic HQ under the GPL. It’s quite an amazing thing to look back on everything that has happened to our product and our team since we went through that process last year. From the discussions we had about wanting to make sure the code was [...]

NetworkWorld’s Barry Nance just posted his bakeoff of open source management tools. This test focused on the open source products available from 3 vendors, Hyperic, Zenoss and Groundwork. The test was based on functionality alone, and did not consider other specialized topics such as scalability, setup or any special management of specific technologies. In Barry’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CMP issued a press release today that announced “Based on shifting audience and market conditions, CMP is closing SysAdmin.” If you didn’t see it, that may have something to do with this nugget being buried in the 28th paragraph. This is a great loss for the community since SysAdmin was one of the few (if [...]

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 [...]

What a difference a year makes… Last year we were 5 guys with a killer product, a profitable business, and big ambitions. Today we’re 25 people with an even better product, a thriving community of users and contributors, hundreds of paying customers, and even bigger ambitions. I wish I could say all it took was [...]

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 [...]

Virtualization is one of the most disruptive trends in IT today, and it’s going through a major change. EMA’s Andi Mann, recently told us that about a quarter of all implementations of virtualization are outside of test and development. And this number is growing quickly. This means that there are newfound pressures for production ready [...]

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 [...]

Two things happened today that got me thinking. One, I read Alex Fletcher’s blog post on Open Source and the Numbers Game and two, I went grocery shopping (you’ll see how they’re related in a minute). As I was wondering the aisles trying to remember what I was there to buy, it occurred to me [...]

At the heart of every good open source project is a vibrant community. But what is the measure that your community is successful? Is it the first time someone contributed a patch? Wrote up some documentation? Wrote a plugin? Really, there’s no easy way to tell when a community catches fire, but when all of [...]

A lot has happened in the past 3 years. We bought the rights to software we developed at Covalent, and the customers that came with it. We believed this problem was bigger then anyone recognized at the time, and we believed in ourselves and in the software we had started to solve it. Starting a [...]

There’s a lot of buzz around these days about what makes or breaks open source. Nat Torkington recently blogged about Is “Open Source” Completely Meaningless?. He asks a good question when asking for feedback on the future direction of OSCON. The recent Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) announcement has had a number of folks wallowing in [...]

Our friend, Michael Cote’, mused a couple weeks ago about the idea of the “little 4″ going up against the “big 4″ in systems management, the newly anointed “little 4” includes Zenoss, Groundwork, Qlusters and Hyperic, of which I am the CEO. It was amusing when Cote’ put this together, aiming at a new class [...]

We were happy to hear of the recent merger between the Free Standards Group and OSDL. The newly minted organization, the Linux Foundation, was a necessary development, as there was duplication of effort among both groups. As they say, two heads are better than one… but not when they’re setting out to accomplish the same [...]

This morning we’ve released the first beta of the next generation of the HQ platform. This release includes a number of significant changes in both the internals of the platform, as well as the feature set offered as part of the open source product. The internal changes to the platform are significant, but I’d like [...]