Hyperic Newsletter – May 2008

Velocity Conference

O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference is only weeks away! This is a conference we helped design and build just for our users, the web operations teams powering some of the coolest companies on the planet. As such, Hyperic is a Diamond Sponsor and our own Javier Soltero will deliver a keynote “Clouds Are no Substitute for Competence.” With cloud computing lurking as the next big disrupter in the web operations world, you’ll want to hear what Javier has to say. And, for being a friend-of-Hyperic, you get a hefty discount!

To claim your 20% registration discount, use this code: vel08hyp

• Visit the Velocity Conference site

We’re Hiring!

Come join a stellar team of people to build, promote, sell, and service world-class Hyperic monitoring technologies. We have a wide range of positions available, and one is sure to catch your eye.

• See the list of open positions and apply today!

Vote for HQ in 2008

No, we’re not talking about Super Tuesday (there’s plenty enough candidates in that race already). We’re talking about the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards! If you think Hyperic HQ deserves some recognition for the hard work and determination it has shown you this year, cast your vote for HQ in the category of your choice.

• Click here to vote for HQ

Twittering Hyperic

If you’re not familiar with Twitter, then where have you been for the last 2 months? When the occasional tweet isn’t getting you out of a foreign prison or helping you report on up-to-the-minute world events, it can also be a great way to follow something you care about. Like Hyperic! We’ll soon be updating the website and forums to take advantage of this new form of communication with our community of users and interested onlookers.

• Read the blog post here
• Click here to subscribe to our tweets

Call For Survey Participants

AOTMP is the industry authority on best practices and standards for managing enterprise voice, wireless, and data network services. AOTMP is seeking to better understand enterprises’ challenges in network management for an upcoming report on industry trends and best practices, and who better to tell them than you, faithful reader?! Respondents to this survey will be enrolled in a drawing for opportunities to win a US$200 travelers check.

• Click here to take the survey

Upcoming and Archived HyperCASTs

Can’t get enough HQU? Want to get every last drop of performance out of MySQL? Would you like to see into Hyperic’s technological future? We’ve got you covered with these upcoming HyperCASTs. Click to RSVP.

• Practical Development of HQU Plugins & ResourcesJon Travis, Engineering and Marie McGarry, DocumentationJune 3rd, 2008 11:00 PDT / 18:00 UTC
• Using HQ to Performance Tune MySQLMike Mennis, Quality AssuranceJune 17th, 2008 11:00 PDT / 18:00 UTC
• Product Roadmap ReviewChip Witt, Product Management and Charles Lee, EngineeringJuly 8th, 2008 11:00 PDT / 18:00 UTC

If you’ve never seen any of our HyperCASTs, we have built a library of archives. Some of the recent ones include:

• Customizing Hyperic Enterprise Reports
• Tuning HQ Health
• Building JMX Plugins
• Building SNMP Plugins

Hyperic HQ Iterations for 4.0

Our engineers have been taking a community approach in plotting the develpment of Hyperic HQ 4.0. One of the most visible changes wrought by this change in approach is the publishing of iterations, very early pre-alpha versions of code, on SourceForge.net. If you’re very curious and love to tinker and hack on developmental code, take a look:

• Hyperic HQ 4.0 Iterations
• Hyperic HQ 4.0 Roadmap – Learn about the progress and goals of the HQ 4.0 release

Best of the Blog

• Hyperic Announces MySQL Performance Study Results – A very cool study of the performance and scale we’ve been able to achieve using MySQL with HQ.
• VMotion Sickness Epidemic Worse Than We Thought – Stacey Schneider offers some shocking analysis of the effects of Virtualization on otherwise normal, healthy SysAdmins.
• Atlassian Using Hyperic – We noticed something cool recently on their wiki. As big fans and users of Atlassian’s work, it’s nice to see the feeling is mutual.

Hyperic in the News

• Using agent-based monitoring despite reservations – Megan Santosus writes about the Contegix case study, including mention of Contegix’s use of Hyperic HQ.
• Guide to Server Management – Denise Dubie writes about virtual server management, noting Hyperic HQ as an open source tool that can manage virtual servers.
• Red Hat Heads For The JON 2.0 – Sean Michael Kerner writes about the JBoss ON announcement. Hyperic is mentioned in a quote from Katrinka McCallum about our involvement.

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