May Newsletter – HQ 3.0.4 Now Available

Much has been happening here in Hyperic-land, and I’d like to share all of the goings-on with you. From MySQLConf to JavaOne, from the Java Developers’ Journal to InfoWorld, the reverberations of Hyperic’s activities have been felt far and wide.

Without further ado, here’s what we’ve been up to:

Hyperic HQ 3.0.4 Now Available!

The latest maintenance release of Hyperic HQ, version 3.0.4 is now available. This version is a minor release that marks significant improvement in UI page load times, most notably when using Browse Resources or viewing groups. This minor release also provides improved auto-discovery and monitoring of Sybase, as well as initial support for monitoring mod_jk.

Reminder: $5000 Scholarship Ends In June!

Hyperic is currently running an essay contest for a scholarship worth $5000 that ends on June 15, 2007. The $5000 award will go to the individual who can most clearly define the IT requirements for systems management of the Next Generation Data Center.

The scholarship is open to all members of university-level IT departments. Interested individuals are invited to visit www.hyperic.com/essaycontest for essay requirements and contest rules. Winning essays must include specific requirements, background and use-case scenarios, real or imagined, that describes the types of IT monitoring and analysis that will be required by Next Generation Data Centers.

Time is running out! Spread the word to willing students and ensure all submissions are recieved by June 15, 2007.

Charles Lee’s Series on Hibernate Featured in JDJ

Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, is writing a series of articles for the Java Developer’s Journal covering Hyperic HQ’s migration from EJB2 to Hibernate. The first in the series was published in the February issue of the JDJ. Charles’ second installment appeared on April 26 and dives into more on our change from EJB2 to POJOs. Look for another issue coming up in May!

MySQLConf Report

Hyperic showed up in full force to MySQL Conference in April. We had a booth where we met a lot of new potential Hypericans, and reconnected with some seasoned veterans. Thanks for all who came by to hang out with us!

In addition, Charles Lee presented Hyperic’s Hibernate Migration Case Study to a rapt audience at the on Wednesday at the conference. We also showed the crowd of MySQL enthusiasts a little about how we were able to port the Hyperic backend database to MySQL using Hibernate. This is part of our summer release, and for anyone who wants to check it out a
bit early jump on our Product Roadmap Forum. MySQLConf was a blast. If you missed it, hopefully we’ll see you next year!

JavaOne Report

It was quite a week at JavaOne. We had a booth on the floor, a pod in the .orgZone, and a pod and (well-attended) talk at CommunityOne. Thanks to all those using Hyperic that took the extra effort to come by and meet us in person! There was quite a number of you, and we were happy to finally meet! For those that couldn’t make it, here’s a quick recap:

• Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, gave a talk on Monday at CommunityOne about how we managed to remove data bottlenecks and scale our PostgreSQL usage to accommodate our large data aggregation demands.
• Heather and John Mark hung out at our CommunityOne pod, where they would assault unsuspecting passersby. Ok, not really, but they enjoyed chatting up attendees.
• All sorts of things happened in the Hyperic booth on the main JavaOne floor.

The Latest on Javier’s Blog

Javier spent a lot of last month talking to analysts, peers and customers. One continuous conversation seems to be virtualization optimization and how significant a role Hyperic can play in that effort. Check out his post on The Virtual Divide: Systems Management vs Virtualization Optimization – its a follow up to the white paper we posted last month called Bridging The Virtual Divide.

Javier also posted his recap on the Open Source Think Tank, which was organized by Andrew Aitken of the Olliance Group. Highlights include discussions on what customers really want, whether they buy Open Source or just the software product, confusion around the GPL, and leveraging the sales pyramid. It’s a fun read – check it out.

As our community grows in size and level of product involvement, it’s fun to see people get real value from what we do – so much value, in fact, that they feel motivated to contribute back. Watch our community in action on the discussion forums.

Hyperic in the News

Customers once again headline our news, with the Human Neuroimaging Lab at Baylor College of Medicine announcing their success in using Hyperic HQ 3.0. The lab has 30 servers managing intense data computations and covering 30 terabytes of data! The lab deployed Hyperic HQ and began managing all their servers and custom-built Java and ColdFusion apps in just 4 hours. From start to pretty graphs in 4 hours. Thanks to Justin King at the lab for so proudly announcing his success with Hyperic.

In other news, Matt Asay’s blog on InfoWorld gave us props a few times in the post Who owns a Product? and Let a thousand open source flowers bloom.
Doug and Stacey also spent some time with Dan Kuznetsky, the Virtual Man, from ZDNet this past month and he’s been talking us up quite a bit ever since. He even posted about a conversation he had with John Engates, Rackspace’s CTO.

And of course, there is always the news that Gartner finally recognized Open Source vendors as a threat to the “big 4″ Systems Management vendors. Harper Mann, at Infoworld does a nice recap entitled Gartner Jumps on the Bandwagon. We particularly like that he starts out saying: If one uses the “Shift Key” to spell out “Big 4″- he gets “BIG $.” Nice touch!

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