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 [...]

We’ve always been great at giving our customers the ability to manage their VMware servers and guest VM’s, but now we’ve taken the extra step of creating a ready-to-run VMware appliance. Basic platform: Debian 4.0 HQ version: 3.0.5-417 OS Basic install: Have VMware player installed (or server) Start the appliance and login either as root [...]

With our recent news of series B funding and a new HQ release just yesterday, we have once again become the subject of a few news articles. Here are a few of them that we discovered this morning: Conversation with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic – Dan Kuznetzky’s blog post for ZDNet’s Virtually Speaking on [...]

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 [...]

Come one, come all, and grab the Hyperic HQ 3.0.5, the latest and greatest from our engineering gurus. This version adds support for VMware Server on x86_64 Linux, fixes a couple of WebLogic issues, and improves performance. See the release notes and download now! Download Hyperic HQ 3.0.5

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 love it when a community comes together! This morning I came across this blog post all about how easy it is to set up Tomcat monitoring on Ubuntu with HQ. As a bonus, the same process appears to apply to Nexenta, an OpenSolaris-based distribution, as well. You know your software is useful when people [...]

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 [...]

Here’s the PDF of Charles’ presentation on improving database performance for an application. In this case, he goes through our migration away from EJB2 to Hibernate and how we managed to squeeze better performance from PostgreSQL. As he mentions, database performance tuning is often about tuning the app to make more efficient use of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Hyperic team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Hyperic HQ 3.0.4. This release marks some significant performance enhancements. See the full release notes and download today!

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 [...]

Jack Loftus of SearchEnterpriseLinux has written an article about mynewplace.com’s experience monitoring Resin-based apps with Nagios and the search for systems management software with better Resin support. They didn’t want to pay the license fees for Openview, and it’s important to note that Openview would not have supported their Resin deployment without significant customization. In [...]

Charles Lee posted an article on theserverside.com on the flexibility afforded us by our migration to Hibernate. In our case, it was the first step towards MySQL compatibility, and we wonder how many other enterprise developers have used it for similar purposes. Or course, the overall benefits of Hibernate go far beyond MySQL compatibility, but [...]

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 [...]

Europe is catching on to Hyperic HQ, and this article in IDG.se proves it! It’s in Swedish, but we’ll give you the overview in English. Niklas Andersson comments on the continued progress of Web 2.0 and, like the O’Reilly Radar, notes how Web 2.0 is essentially a synonym for composite applications built on Open Source [...]

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 [...]