Hyperic days are generally very full days. So I sympathize with Dave Rosenberg’s apathy for blogging some days. Generally when I blog, I prefer to discuss a unique perspective on a meaningful topic that is relevant to today’s greater conversation. I have lots of these thoughts every day. What I don’t have is time. When [...]

Skype’s outage this morning (and the ensuing uproar from it’s dedicated users) served as yet another example of how a critical online service is under constant risk of upsetting its users and losing business due. While the true cause of the outage has not been officially communicated by the folks at Skype, it’s precisely these [...]

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 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 [...]

Released today, administrators of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System now have access to a fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management solution with Hyperic HQ for Alfresco. The new Hyperic HQ plugin instantly enables HQ and Alfresco administrators to take full advantage of Hyperic’s powerful management capabilities, including auto-discovery, monitoring, complex alerting and remediation. With today’s [...]

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 [...]

The Open Source Convention is always an entertaining mix of the old guard and those new to open source. I look forward to crashing quite a few talks this year and mixing it up a bit. If you happen to be there, feel free to drop me a line at johnmark _at_ hyperic.com. And it [...]

Redmonk’s Michael Cote got around to posting this interview of Javier from JavaOne. The wait was worth it – the audio is far better than the one I posted of the same interview. Coté and James talked with Javier about SIGAR, Hyperic’s open source library for getting low-level system information, the perennial question of single- [...]

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 [...]

One of the best parts about my job is seeing the HQ footprint increase on a daily basis. Sometimes it’s just the little things that make me happy. Like this job description for a unix system administrator. It reads like your usual sysadmin job description, until you get to this part: Restructuring the shared hosting [...]

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 [...]

Hyperic is happy to announce the first beta of HQ 3.1. Be sure to download the beta and give it a spin. This release will include the following new features: Expanded Alert Features Introduces the Alert Center for central management of alerts in a flat hierarchy, Alert Resolutions descriptions track how to resolve problems, expanded [...]

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.

Hyperic will have a booth at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, from August 7 to 9. We will post the booth number when it’s finalized.

Beginning today, administrators of Zimbra Collaboration Suite, the leader in open source, next-generation email and collaboration software, now have a fully supported, enterprise-ready solution for managing their complex, mission critical environments with the general availability of Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra. The plugin made available by Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, will [...]

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 [...]

Doug and Javier had a great conversation with Sam Ramji of Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab. You can read about it at Port 25. Some choice tidbits: We had a great discussion, which I opened bluntly by saying, “You don’t need to tell me about your software; I’ve seen it, my lab team thinks it’s [...]

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 [...]