Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…Virtualization liscensing about to go underway Microsoft making some major changes to its’ liscensing program Some interesting insight to cloud computing in the Seattle P-I…with a mention of Hyperic’s involvement Get ready…the Xen Community is about to release it’s next feature for review

Monday’s HyperLINKS…Open Source receives some well-deserved recognition No “cloud computing” for Dell…case closed Business Week recognizes open source at Red Hat convention Dan Woods takes a trip down the open source memory lane

Dave was kind enough to invite me to guest post on his blog at CNET about the subject of operations and the cloud. For those who dont regularly read Dave’s blog, here’s the post in its entirety… The separation of Cloud offerings around consumption of resources versus consumption of applications makes a lot of sense. [...]

Almost time for the weekend, but not without HyperLINKS! Dana Blankenhorn names virtualization “the secret sauce of the cloud” and Firefox as the threat to open source Gmail users aren’t catching a break with another outage complication Sarah Perez raises the question…is there more security with traditional computing?

In today’s LINKS…Open Source networks officially under protection It’s official…court ruling states that open source will be protected under copyright law Dave Rosenberg creates two buckets of the cloud to help place your enterprise into Server outages cause a distrust in the cloud

Hump Day HyperLINKS…Private clouds and Hype Cycles abound Fidelity Investments is aiming to virtualize its server Gartner releases the Hype Cycle, outlining important technology trends to pay attention to John Foley examines the private cloud

Another day is about to come to an end, but not without HyperLINKS! Jeff Vance writes about the future of VMWare The Gmail outage continues to be reported on with Larry Dignan noting the instability of web services and clouds John Suit examines the question, “Is Virtualization the “Cloud” of the Enterprise?”

Monday’s HyperLINKS…A LinuxWorld recap, while cloud computing is creating another storm “Private clouds“….the newest branch of cloud computing for IT departments Gartner analysts link cloud computing with the hype cycle Derrick Harris gives his LinuxWorld wrap up

A bit dated, but I finally got a break from conferences to watch all the great videos that were made about CloudStatus. Amazon AWS Loves CloudStatus.com, Here’s The Proof (Hyperic Video 2/2) from Toon Vanagt on Vimeo. My favorite is Virtualization.com’s for a few reasons: Trav still had the mohawk in that video. Yes, people [...]

TGIF!  Here are today’s HyperLINKS.  Have a great weekend and we will see you back here on Monday More coverage from the Google Gmail downage as Clint Boulton reports on the outage James Maguire looks at some of the dangers of cloud computing IBM executives call on the open source community to do more to [...]

Thursday’s topics…Dell case lingers on, Gmail shines a bad light on the cloud Google outage causes frustration with the Cloud US Patent Office decides to drag Dell’s case back under examination School’s in session for cloud computing

Mid-Week HyperLINKS…The Cloud is still too shady for some A Newsweek article points out that there are plenty of storms within the Cloud Dell faces a setback in the case of patenting “cloud computing” IBM research finds that virtualization is helping to revive Linux, putting it into the high end status

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…LinuxWorld coverage rolling in, Cloud Computing discussion continues IBM has full confidence in the cloud, investing $360 million into the service Mike Gunderloy questions the boundaries of open source A plethora of companies express growing interest on the cloud

Happy Monday! Today marks the first day of LinuxWorld and we will be watching the show closely this week to bring you its headlines. Now without further ado, here are today’s HyperLINKS: Dan Kusnetzky prepares for future posts from LinuxWorld and outlines the meaning of virtualization Cloud Computing is making waves in the world…Merrill Lynch [...]

Every year InfoWorld recognizes the top free and open products for business, IT, and personal productivity for the Best of Open Source Software, the BOSSIES. Chosen by InfoWorld Test Center editors, analysts, and reviewers, InfoWorld’s annual Best of Open Source Software awards (or Bossies, for short) celebrate the best products that open source has to [...]

Your favorite open source based monitoring and management suite just got sweeter. After working with the Xensource/Citrix team for two years, Hyperic HQ now supports Citrix Xen Server, giving customers a 360 degree view into their Xen-frastructure. “With the rapid proliferation of virtualized infrastructure, effectively managing virtual resources is critical to successfully realizing consolidation benefits [...]

Friday the first…Everyone, everywhere trying to claim the cloud Dell puts dibs on “cloud computing” as trademark Who will dominate the cloud? Allan Leinwand thinks the answer is a decade away Mike Gunderloy writes that architecture will hold precedence over licensing laws with open source and the cloud…Tim O’Reilly provides input with his own essay

The end of July brings new possibilities of an open source cloud The industry is still talking about the Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo announcement. InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder adds his take to the news 451 Group releases their CAOS Theory, reporting the increase of community Linux distributions Here it comes! The virtual sprawl is hitting Wall [...]

Join With Other Hypericans on LinkedIn! We have a new group on LinkedIn, and you’re invited to join now! OSCON, 2008 OSCON was a blast this year, as usual. Every year, Portland becomes ground zero for free and open source companies and advocates. Sessions, panels, BoFs and parties. Hyperic sponsored the Community Choice Awards, and [...]

Mid-week HyperLINKS bring cloud coverage and virtualization to the surface The Yankee Group foresees virtualization as the solution for corporate enterprises Matthew Aslett raises a good question for the future…who will be the first to establish an open source cloud? More and more companies drifting into the cloud…eBay is in the works of creating a [...]

Lots of moving and shaking today and we are not just talking about the earthquake in Southern California. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering with governments and academic institutions to create an open source cloud computing test bed with six distributed centers Gunjan Trivedi offers a great analysis of cloud computing [...]

In today’s HyperLINKS…Amazon gets to the bottom of S3 outage Michael Krigsman of ZDNet writes on Amazon’s analysis of their service failure, calling their post-mortem “mature” A Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates the likelihood of significant decreases in IT jobs, both with in-house and contract staff Forbes’ Bob Worrall discusses the need for more [...]

We just found out that Hyperic has been nominated for two, count ‘em two, LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards. Hyperic HQ is in the running for Best System Management tool and our newest product, the CloudStatus.com cloud monitor, is nominated for Best Clustering or Grid Solution. Hopefully you’ll be able to attend the LinuxWorld Conference and [...]

I decided that there is way too much to recap in one post, so I will summarize a single day at OSCON. Told in the style of television’s “24″. Hyperbole added to incriminate the guilty. OSCON — Portland — 7/23 – 7/24 The following happened between 6:00p – 8:00p (7/23) It was a long day. [...]

OSCON comes to a close while System Administrators are celebrated Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller posted a CloudStatus demo video and interview with engineer Jon Travis. Stacey Higginbotham writes about VC’s increasing interest in the cloud, mentioning Hyperic as an option for monitoring Denise Dubie highlights today’s Sys Admin holiday Dan Kusnetzky ponders on the question, “If [...]