If You Can’t Monitor Performance, How Do You Manage It? Applications and infrastructure performance must be consistently and vigilantly monitored, and expertly managed to maintain business efficiencies and assurances that service level agreements (SLAs) are being met. Unfortunately, with networks operating across numerous remote locations and business functions managed across a spectrum of platforms, services [...]

Attention all beta testers.  We are very pleased to announce the availability of HQ 4.1 beta for download. Now is your chance to become part of the next dot release of Hyperic HQ! We value your input and appreciate any comments, bugs or problems you may find. Not only does this make HQ 4.1 a [...]

For those of you who want a sneak peek into our upcoming 4.1 release of Hyperic HQ, look no further. Over the past several months, we have spent a lot of time listening to our customers which has helped sculpt and drive this upcoming release of Hyperic HQ. On top of that, we have decided to [...]

SCaLE 7x is the premier Open Source Community conference in the southwestern US. It’s taking place at the Westin LAX Hotel which is the same venue as last year. Registration begins at 8am (yes it’s early but not my idea!) with the keynote starting at 9am. The agenda is packed with great sessions and speakers and Hyperic [...]

Recently we were reading up on our favorite hobby, ogling at WebOps Visualization (so what? we’re geeks), and we came across this post by Jesse Robbins from the O’Reilly Radar that got us thinking about the enormous amounts of data and visualization going on in our very own HQ user base. Some of the most [...]

We at Hyperic have been speaking with lots of companies about their plans to move various development efforts into the cloud.  Over the last few years our strongest relationships have been with operations teams and systems administrators, but since launching Cloudstatus and our AMI version of Hyperic HQ we are speaking with more and more [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.3 is the second maintenance release in the 4.0 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.2. Go get it! To find out what goodies await you in 4.0.3, please checkout [...]

// < ![CDATA[ window.location.href='http://blog-staging.hyperic.com/'; // ]]> This morning we announced the latest addition to our monitoring suite, Hyperic Operations IQ. It’s basically a very powerful and unique reporting suite providing business intelligence for IT and web operation personnel. Hyperic IQ allows you to report on any metrics, any resources, in any data center with support [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.2 is the first maintenance release in the 4.0 series (for those keeping score at home, 4.0.1 was our GA release), and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.1. Go get it! [...]

I would like to issue a hearty congratulations to the App Engine team on their recent announcements of quota and dashboard improvements.  We work with many, many software teams, and out of them all, the App Engine team stands out as a bunch of folks excited about making web application development easier, and pushing the [...]

After almost 12 months of design and development, I am proud to announce the general availability of HQ 4.0! Now past its 5th year of production usage, it’s incredibly cool for me to see how this product has evolved from what we conceived back in 2002. With the help of hundreds of customers and thousands [...]

Paul McDonald and the App Engine Team spent some time gathering some video case studies of developers who have created scalable web applications on Google’s App Engine. Included are Dave Westwood of BuddyPoke, Charles Ying from PixVerse, and of course – Hyperic’s own Jon Travis on CloudStatus:

IDC confirmed my amateur predictions that the current economic turmoil will indeed be very good for those looking to the cloud. Both from a user perspective, as well as a vendor perspective. In fact, IDC’s Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst, is predicting adoption will accelerate due to market pressures in a recent [...]

The scariest part of today’s economic turmoil is how preventable it was. I am not talking about additional supervision of an uncontrolled finance sector. While the sub-prime market was risky and obviously short-sighted, the overall laws of supply and demand eventually punish those who take unnecessary risks. What is more irresponsible and scary is the [...]

Cloud Computing has been a much used and misunderstood term. You know its become mainstream when it attracts pundits of the caliber of Larry Ellison, who last week confessed his own confusion during an anti-cloud computing rant: Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s [...]

Hyperic 4.0 Beta 4 We are one release closer to the launch of 4.0! Hyperic HQ 4.0 is designed for greater ease of implementation, management and scale. It also features a swank new UI, a new API, JMX MBean Query tool and more plugins. If you’re thinking about deploying 4.0, you can start testing it [...]

It’s no secret that Hyperic is a web-driven open source project and business. All our web properties from hyperic.com, to the wiki, forums and support are invaluable resources for us and our users. When we first started, we managed all these properties ourselves. In fact, as many scrappy startups do – they all started on [...]

It seems like ages since I’ve had the time to blog about Hyperic. Some is due to the addition of the far more eloquent and far more entertaining Jeremy Hogan as the voice of our community. But more it seems that growth is ironically reducing my capacity to cover all the new topics. I was [...]

Don’t be the last on your block to check out the 4.0 Beta! The Beta 2 builds are now available – go and get ‘em here. Don’t forget to check out Jeremy’s Beta Program Overview HyperCAST and log your 4.0 Beta Bugs in the Bugs Forum. Remember – those who bug stomp win some hot [...]

At this years annual JavaOne conference SYS-CON TV sat down with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic to find out more about Hyperic’s world-class monitoring solutions. SYS-CON.TV is a unique multimedia resource enabled by Flash video which allows them to bring timely interviews, news, expert panels, and features on all that’s new and all that’s best [...]

I really hate to trump Marty’s stellar 3.2.5 release blog so soon after he crafted it, but today we launch the Hyperic HQ 4.0 Beta Program. That’s right, 4 dot Oh-My-Stars-and-Garters, this is some sweet suite. This is a community initiative, geared to stomp as many bugs out of the 4.0 Beta as we can [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 3.2 family. HQ 3.2.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 3.2 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 3.2.4. Go get it! To find out what goodness 3.2.5 brings (and there’s a lot [...]

Hyperic 3.2.5! The latest release of Hyperic HQ, 3.2.5, is live and chock full of the good stuff. Notable changes and additions include: Changes in a platform’s fully qualified domain name are autodiscovered, the new JMX console allows you to display and control MBeans and troubleshoot JVM issues, script actions for alerts, metric display auto-reset [...]

Dear valued and loyal HyperLINKS reader, That day we thought would never come, is upon us. The day when we decide to move from daily HyperLINKS posts, to weekly HyperLINKS posts. Please join us in solemn reverence and remembrance. Now enjoy this, your final daily dose of HyperLINKS. Business execs vs. IT professionals…how do they [...]

Today’s HyperLINKS…Important things to remember and be aware of with the cloud More security issues afloat in the cloud Margaret Lewis predicts that there will be complications in the future of virtualization Gordon Haff reminds us not to forget latency when it comes to cloud computing