Normally, I try to avoid reading business books. I especially avoid those promoting the secret sauce to building great companies. I figure the folks who actually do the building often tend to be too busy working, or otherwise enjoying the fruits of their labors instead of writing books. Plus, there are no shortcuts into building [...]

In today’s picks, open source continues its path of domination with its most recent prey being the cloud, among other things: Ostatic editor, Sam Dean writes about Eucalyptus as an open source alternative to Amazon’s EC2 Google is joining forces with IBM to train university students to be better equipped to succeed using cloud and [...]

It’s another award-winning day here at Hyperic. Well, almost… Hyperic HQ named runner up in the “Best Virtualization Tool” category of ServerWatch’s Annual Product Excellence Awards, considering we’re a monitoring tool and not actually a virtualization tool – that’s pretty cool. It shows how hard monitoring is in a virtual world. Can’t miss noting that [...]

It’s cloudy here in SF, and a “cloudy” day for news. Here are today’s top picks: Michael Vizard writes about cloud computing and outlines three different perspectives of the cloud: applications, platforms and infrastructure. We think the market will rally around these definitions. Eric Lundquist interviews VMware CEO Dianne Greene about the challenges facing VMware [...]

The week started off with a bang, and so will the HyperLINKs: Ok, so monitoring can’t solve EVERY problem…ThePlanet’s datacenter exploded this past weekend, leaving 9000 servers offline, including the LoopFuse servers that host part of our newsletter. Sorry for those who missed out on our graphics this weekend, they’re back up now. Ed Burnette [...]

Velocity Conference O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference is only weeks away! This is a conference we helped design and build just for our users, the web operations teams powering some of the coolest companies on the planet. As such, Hyperic is a Diamond Sponsor and our own Javier Soltero will deliver a keynote “Clouds Are no Substitute [...]

Day 2 of bringing you news you can use on the IT Management and Web Operations industry at large. Today’s top picks are: IBM will support cloud computing with its initiative, Blue Cloud Dan Kusnetzky continues to discuss virtualization 2.0, now explaining the benefits of the new phase of technology Om Malik on the ongoing [...]

I just saw that Atlassian, the provider of the essential community tools like Confluence wiki and JIRA ticket system, updated their wiki on the importance of monitoring the “lifeblood of your organization”. They even outline the important monitoring tasks you need, and stress that it will help when dealing with their own world class support. [...]

Welcome to the first edition of HyperLINKS! At Hyperic, we spend a lot of time listening to the overall web operations community at large, and we thought we’d pass on to our community on a daily basis the gems that stand out. Our hope is this is news you can use. So without further ado, [...]

It’s official, we’ve joined the micro-blogging storm! Actually, we joined a couple months ago, but I just decided to take over managing the account. We’ll be updating the website and forums over the next month or so, but if you want to follow us for now check out the account ‘hyperic’ on twitter. You can [...]

Joe Hernick from InfoWorld released a new report today with some surprising data. The New Sprawl: Managing Virtual Server Environments, published today, Joe announced that only 2% of the 323 InfoWorld Respondents were using a virtualization management strategy that reconciled the physical to the virtual servers (P2V). A whopping 27% were using a “wink and [...]

Once again, SourceForge.net is holding its annual community choice awards. As a former SourceForge.net worker bee, it’s great to be able to utilize what we built at VA Linux all those years ago. So, if you’re a fan of Hyperic HQ – and if you’re not, you really should be – nominate us in one [...]

Cruising my daily news feeds and just came across the fact that seemingly ALL CMP Media outlets, including the popular InformationWeek.com and CRN are down. At first the sites rendered a dreaded ’500 error’: 500 The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request. – Please try back later… The sites [...]

This past Monday, May 5th, I had the opportunity to speak at Community One on Scaling MySQL. The presentation was based on several months of work to integrate and tune MySQL in to our fastest supported database. MySQL is the fourth database I have developed on, and while working with it I have found a [...]

First Enterprise Application to Prove MySQL Supports Immense Scale JAVAONE—San Francisco, Calif. – News Release: Today at JavaOne, Hyperic (Booth #1028), announced the results of a large scale performance study on Hyperic using Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database as a backend. Results showed Hyperic monitoring upwards of 2.3 million metric transactions per minute. These results definitively [...]

HQ and Resin user’s might have noticed that somewhere around the Resin 3.0.2x release time frame HQ stopped collecting metrics from some key values that most folks found rather important. For example, per Webapp the following metrics were no longer being collected: Request Count Request Count per Minute Request Read Bytes Request Read Bytes per [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately talking to the management team here at Hyperic about the subject of search. Specifically, Google search since its what most of our users tend to find us with. (No disrespect to our good friends at Ask.com whose search engine seems to be less popular with the sysadmin [...]

Since the introduction of the HQU Plugin Framwork, we’ve seen a lot of activity in the Hyperic community around using this new capability to take HQ places it’s never been before.  I might be biased, but quite honestly the idea alone of HQU makes me a bit giddy.  Anytime I see this kind of power [...]

Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Now Available! Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Enterprise are now available! HQ 3.2.3 is a maintenance release with minor bugfixes. We recommend that all 3.2.x users upgrade to this latest version. Get it now: Download HQ 3.2.3 Read the Release Notes Meet and Greet, Part 1 While we may not [...]

Today, Hyperic is sharing an exciting new plugin as part of our ongoing preview of Hyperic HQ 4.0. The beauty of this plugin is it actually supports TWO products: Oracle Application Server Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J) As a relative new-comer to the Hyperic Engineering team, I would like to use this opportunity to introduce [...]

The good things keep happening every day here at Hyperic. Today’s good news is that Barry Klawans has officially joined our team! Many of you know Barry as the co-founder and longtime CTO of JasperSoft. Barry recently took leave of JasperSoft to find something that let him enjoy his family more. However, for those of [...]

Like clockwork, the good people of Hyperic Engineering have shipped the third maintenance release for the HQ 3.2 family.  This release is a roll-up of the handful of bug fixes since HQ 3.2.2.  We’d like to thank those customers and users that took the time to let us know how we could improve on HQ [...]

This phrase was used close to a dozen times by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com at his recent keynote at the MySQL conference. Werner used it to describe the day to day tasks of most web operations teams… tasks like racking boxes, configuring routers, and installing software. He mentioned ops teams at Amazon got to [...]

We’re adding a new event to our list this year – Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. The event takes place this week, and is promising to be a great experience. There will be over 10,000 people here in San Francisco focused on evolving Web 2.0 technologies, and consequently – managing them, which is where Hyperic [...]

Recently, I have gotten to know Roberto Galoppini. In our conversations, Roberto has asked some pressing questions on two of the more interesting areas of my job. The importance of Community and the importance of Microsoft to Hyperic in growing our business. I’ll talk about his recent post on Microsoft later, but right now, I’d [...]