Charles Lee, Hyperic’s VP of Engineering, will speak at the MySQL Conference and Expo on April 25 on the subject of Migration to Hibernate, which will recount our adventure in Hibernate. We went from EJB2 in HQ 2.7.x to Hibernate as part of the newly released HQ 3.0. We did it for several reasons, mostly [...]

Doug MacEachern, Hyperic CTO and founder of mod_perl, will speak at MuleCon 2007, in San Francisco. Doug will talk about how we took HQ and integrated it with MuleSource’s enterprise offerings. Now Mule customers can also enjoy the benefits of HQ’s systems management.

Hyperic is giving away $5,000 in scholarship money to the winner of an essay contest on the subject of “Managing the Next Generation Data Center”. Open to all university students and employees (including faculty). If you’re an employee, the money goes to your departmental budget. Details at hyperic.com/essaycontest/ read more | digg story

We’ve introduced something new here at Hyperic. Every member of our community forums now has a tiny icon next to their user name. For Hyperic employees, it’s the “H” logo. For everyone else, you’ll see one of 6 icons, depending on how many points you’ve accumulated. This is part of our new rewards program, where [...]

It’s a busy time at Hyperic. Here’s a rundown of what we released today: Hyperic HQ 3.0.2 – Here’s the latest rev of our Open Source systems management software. This release has more efficient database utilization, improving performance. Download from SourceForge.net. Support is now available for HQ! See details. Hyperic HQ 3.0 Enterprise Extensions – [...]

Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, has written the first in a series of articles to be featured in the Java Developers Journal titled, “Bridging the Gap Between Open Source and Commercial Applications.” The series of articles is about the migration of HQ from EJB2 to Hibernate and is a fascinating case study about the [...]

At Hyperic, usability is always our biggest concern, which is why Hyperic HQ is the easiest systems management software to get running. Now we’re going to make plugin development for HQ as easy as possible. We’ve created a separate release on SourceForge.net just for our plugin repository and development kit, which includes the most popular [...]

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 [...]

We just received word from the fine folks at EnterpriseDB they they have certified their database product for use with Hyperic HQ. Previously, we certified only Oracle and PostgreSQL as database backends. This is not to be confused, by the way, with database products we enable our customers to monitor and manage. That list includes [...]

Blogging with a loaned nokia n800. LinuxWorld NY has been a hit. Our booth has been swamped, hq’s 3.0 release has been enthusiastically received, and the OSA announcement generated plenty of interest. This conference has been a win-win-win. I’ll post a news round-up later – quite a few news outlets covered our releases.

If you happen to glance at a copy of InformationWeek this week, you might notice something on page 43:

Attention all 3.0 Beta Users. As you may have noticed, Hyperic has released our first Release Candidate for 3.0. That means the official release is coming very soon! We would really like to hear from you what your thoughts are on this beta product and the release process. And for any of you that would [...]

Charles Babcock has written an interesting article discussing how to project an open source project’s success or failure. There’s also a nice bit about the role of user communities, which includes a quote from Javier: Many think of an open source “community” as a passel of unpaid developers who code because they love it, but [...]

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 [...]

This beta features a less-buggy migration to Hibernate. See the release notes. As usual, download from SourceForge.net. There are still some issues with IE browsers, but they should be mitigated somewhat. After fiddling around with the beta, ask any questions in our specially-marked beta forum. warning: this is a beta and not intended for production [...]

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 [...]

HQ 3.0 Beta3 is now available for download. Changes include UI bugfixes for IE users. Please give us feedback on your experience with the 3.0 betas. check out the beta forum read the release notes file a bug

Come and get it – sourceforge.net/projects/hyperic-hq This release fixes some alert escalation bugs.

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 [...]

The first binary releases of HQ 3.0 beta have now appeared on SourceForge.net. Grab them, see the release notes, discuss in the HQ beta forum, and remember to submit bugs in our tracker. Hyperic HQ 3.0 marks a significant upgrade over HQ 2.7.x, with the following functionality added to open source HQ: Operations Dashboard ­ [...]

We are busily preparing for the beta of Hyperic HQ 3.0. This will be a major advance for HQ. For open source users, some features that were previously only available for enterprise users will now be available for all – including application control. If you want to try out the code that will be tagged [...]

I woke up this morning to discover even more coverage of our HQ for VMware piece from earlier this week. LinuxToday posted a blurb on the NetworkWorld article by Denise Dubie. Even better, Cate at ITManagement.com posted a nice writeup on our VMware management saying “Hyperic is ahead of its time.“

Doug MacEachern, our CTO and the founder of mod_perl, has posted an insightful article on TheServerSide.com about how we use virtualization in our dev environment. Doug also mentions how the internal use of VMware led to a transformed Hyperic HQ, our systems monitoring and management software, that is able to give admins visibility into their [...]

Hot on the heels of the coverage of our newly-announced HQ for VMware release as well as our appearance at USENIX LISA, we sent out our latest newsletter yesterday. In addition to the above, read about how we wowed ‘em at LISA, gave away a Nintendo Wii, and a news follow-up of our MySQL announcement [...]