Nicholas Negroponte gives a TED talk about the first two years of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Even in it’s infancy it has created and made use of some truly amazing innovations: runs on less than 2W of manually rechargeable power powerful mesh networking capabilities dual mode display (works in direct sunlight) open [...]

Hyperic Launches CloudStatus Hyperic is pleased to extend the capabilities of Hyperic HQ with cloud monitoring. Use CloudStatus to monitor your Amazon AWS cloud performance. Part the Clouds Learn More Clouds Are No Substitute For Competence Hyperic CEO, Javier Soltero explains the cloudy nature of distributed computing during his Velocity keynote. When there’s an outage, [...]

Cloud computing continues to dominate attention, some noteworthy news: Yahoo announced today that it has created a Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure group From the better-late-than-never department, Microsoft (finally) releases its Hyper-V hypervisor to compete with VMware and Citrix At the Red Hat Summit, Jim Whitehurst encouraged users of open source to stop hoarding for [...]

GigaOm’s Structure Conference took center stage today and lots of interesting stories are coming down the pipeline. Here are today’s top picks: While participating on a panel at Structure titled “Working the Cloud: NetGen Infrastructure for New Entrepreneurs ,” Google’s Christophe Bisciglia, was forced by several other panelists to defend the openness of BigTable, Google’s [...]

The Velocity Conference wrapped up yesterday. It was a sold out show – and just the kind of crowd that we like to see! The whole conference was based on web operations, and the conference goers were very enthusiastic. Many of the sessions were standing room only. It was personally great for me to be [...]

The day is winding down for us in San Francisco, but not without HyperLINKS. Here are today’s top stories: Daniel Brusilovsky stopped by our booth at Velocity and interviewed the team regarding CloudStatus. Check out his podcast here In other news, IBM has opened up two new cloud computing centers, one in South Africa and [...]

It’s been a very exciting day today with the launch of our new service, CloudStatus, but we couldn’t forget about HyperLINKS. Here are today’s top picks: Speaking of CloudStatus, TechCrunch’s Nik Cubrilovic, posted about today’s launch In other cloud news, InformationWeek’s Richard Martin and J. Nicholas Hoover provide a comprehensive outlook on cloud computing, including [...]

As the world moves to cloud computing, service level insight gets foggier. Don’t let your performance get lost in the clouds. www.cloudstatus.com

It’s the first official day of summer, and it sure feels like it in San Francisco. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: More moving and shaking for Yahoo! The founder of del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter, has announced that he is leaving Yahoo as well, among several other higher-ups In an interesting article, Kara Swisher writes about the massive [...]

Another hot day in San Francisco means another hot day for HyperLINKS! After taking a couple weeks off for some “planned vacation and relaxation,” former open source developer at Yahoo, Jeremy Zawodny, has landed a job with Craigslist Seven years in the making, Red Hat has decided to open source the Red Hat Network satellite [...]

The day is not over without HyperLINKS! Here are our top picks: The stories about Google’s App Engine outage yesterday keep on coming. ComputerWorld’s Nancy Gohring reports on the outage CNET dubs Mozilla’s new release of Firefox 3 a worthy upgrade, giving it a review of 8 out of 10! It’ll take a week to [...]

I just can’t get enough of the code swarm visualization project. Michael Ogawa used Processing to create an “organic visualization” of well known open source projects like Python and PostgreSQL. It shows commits, by developer over time. Clouds of influence drift in and out of the core ring, branches tug one another back and forth [...]

Big downloads, mean big crashes. Here are today’s top stories: After attempting to break a world record for most Web downloads, Mozilla’s newest version of Firefox 3.0 crashes its servers Mozilla is not the only one experiencing technical difficulties, the application directory and all third party applications for Google’s App Engine are offline with developers [...]

(Obligatory Pink Floyd reference included) This afternoon we get another data point showing that despite the exciting promise of cloud computing, the realities of managing large scale infrastructure insist on rearing their ugly heads. TechCrunch is reporting that Google Apps had an outage today which caused the service to be completely down. There’s two serious [...]

Hyperic is making news today all on its own, with an addition of our new Director of Community Management, Jeremy Hogan and a separate write-up in NetworkWorld on virtualization management. Check out today’s picks: Jeremy Hogan joins Hyperic! Jeremy has some serious experience in growing great communities like Red Hat and Fedora, so we’ll expect [...]

This is my first blog post as the Director of Community Management for Hyperic, so I suppose I should begin with an introduction. I’m Jeremy Hogan, and I’m a hacker. If something works, I want to pull it apart and see how. If it’s broken, I have a compulsive need to try and fix it. [...]

Friday the 13th used to be so scary when we were kids. Now its just TGIF! DestinationCRM’s Lauren McKay sums up Nick Carr’s speech at Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit addressing that the movement towards cloud computing is allowing users to think beyond the barriers of tradional IT Slashdot got a conversation started [...]

Hyperic headlines today’s news, but as usual Yahoo! is all over everybody else’s news… Michael Vizard writes about the need for change in IT management as cloud computing becomes increasingly commonplace, citing Hyperic as a company that is helping to create this new approach to IT management Get your download finger ready! Mozilla confirmed its [...]

Today’s news is out of this world! OK, maybe only for Sergey Brin… but here you go: Dave Martinjak posted a review of Running Xen, a new book out on how to run a XenSource based virtualized environment. We’ll be helping flesh out that missing chapter on sys mgmt best practices here soon. CNET’s Charles [...]

The sun may be shining bright here in San Francisco, but “cloudy” news is still dominating HyperLINKS. Here are today’s top picks: Brian Braiker of Newsweek discusses the growing trend of cloud computing, and the concerns that are being raised about the migration to the cloud Larry Dignan talks about cloud computing as the “new” [...]

From time to time, I think about what the definition of a small company is vs a big company. Many know I came from Siebel, a big company that was swallowed up by an even bigger company Oracle. I have been at Hyperic for a couple years now, and when I started we were assuredly [...]

Two things today. First, thanks to Cote, Matt, Javier and others for their kind words. I am tremendously excited to be working with Hyperic. I’ve liked the company for a long time, and I’m even more impressed by the team and the strategy now that I am spending a couple of days a week here. [...]

By now, the entire world has heard about Amazon’s much publicized outage last Friday. The fact that they had an outage this severe is surprising given their track record. What really shook me was how the situation was explained (or *not* explained). The short answer, as revealed to ZDNet: “These are complicated systems” Perhaps they’re [...]

Apple is not the only one making headlines, systems management still gets some play amongst the noise… Oliver Marks writes an interesting piece discussing Management 2.0: the role of systems management in a world ruled by Web 2.0 technologies and the consumerization of IT Alan Shimel discusses the pros and cons of centralized computing and [...]

TGIF! This marks the first full week of our HyperLINKS – hopefully you’re finding that its news you can use. So without further ado, it looks like a Hyperic filled Friday. Our favorite :) We’re first to make news today – as Redmonk’s newest customer we had our first customer briefing. Michale Cote came up [...]