The team just finished our second successful MySQL Con. Many thanks to Marten & Zack and all the folks at O’Reilly that put on such a great conference. This year definitely had a different feel, and of course that had a lot to do with Sun’s influence. It felt like it was almost a new [...]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to Marten Mickos deliver the opening keynote at the MySQL conference here in Santa Clara. As usual, Marten does an enviable job at delivering a presentation which talks about MySQL’s business, its new relationship with Sun Microsystems, and what this all has to do with Open Source. I’ve [...]

Dan Fost, a freelance reporter for the New York Times, did an article today on virtualization. In the beginning part of his research, he came to me to understand more about how virtualization is changing IT. Dan’s article, titled Closing the Doors That Virtual Sprawl Leaves Open, covers a broad array of topics from the [...]

In this HyperCAST, Marty Messer walks through the creation and deployment of SNMP-based plugins in Hyperic HQ. New users to Hyperic HQ often don’t know that an HQ agent can be used to connect to other SNMP-enabled devices on a network. This session shows you how to leverage that.

The Linux Foundation is holding their Collaboration Summit in Austin, TX this week. After browsing through some of the videos, I was pleasantly surprised to see Javier getting an interview.

We are positively stoked to be going to this weekend’s Lug Radio Live in San Francisco! Lug Radio Live (LRL) will be held on April 12 and 13 at the Metreon on 4th and Howard, which you’ll note is approximately 2 blocks from Hyperic headquarters. LRL features a who’s who of prominent Open Source luminaries, [...]

Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Now Available! Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Enterprise are now available! This version features the hot new HQU Plugin framework and the first stages of OpenNMS integration. Also new is an MSI installer for Windows and RPM’s for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora. Get this release now: Download HQ [...]

[via the good folks at Engadget] This has to be the most unique use of data center energy ever devised. It seems IBM has opted to use excess heat from a new facility in Uitikon, Switzerland to heat a nearby swimming pool. Use this: To warm this: The article from the AP states: In a [...]

Yesterday was indeed April 1st aka April Fools Day. It also happened to be a Board of Directors meeting day here at Hyperic. Combine the two, and I pretty much combust over the need to have a little fun afterwards. In a previous job, I almost always played the April Fools Day prank on my [...]

Jon Travis, Principal Engineer at Hyperic and the guru behind HQU, did a HyperCAST yesterday on our newly released HQU UI plugin framework. To read more about HQU, see hquplugins.org – basically, HQU lets you build custom UI views, integrate with web services, interact directly with the HQ engine, and script out automated tasks. The [...]

HQU Plugin Framework Provides Full Access To Deploy Zero-Touch, Zero-Downtime Web Infrastructure Management Automation SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – March 26, 2008 Hyperic today announced a new version of both the open source and enterprise versions of its flagship software, Hyperic HQ The centerpiece of the new release is a plugin framework, HQU, that makes it [...]

What do Hi5, Facebook, or MySpace have to do with enterprise computing? I’ve been asking myself this question for over a year, as I have continued to hear about social networking’s imminent impact on business applications. Frankly, my answer up until recently was “not a whole lot”. It seemed all too convenient for the technology [...]

InfoWorld has published extensive interviews with a stable of Open Source thought leaders on the eve of the Open Source Business Conference. Dubbed The Open Source Roundtable, it delivers a series of interviews with 11 individuals on the vanguard of Open Source, including, I was pleased to learn, Javier Soltero. For the sake of completeness, [...]

This was an interesting article by Nick Carr that popped up in Google Reader today – it’s about the Bebo acquisition by AOL and how the founders have been rewarded handsomely, to the tune of $800 million, with diddly squat going to the artists who contributed site content. From the article: As for the millions [...]

In addition to our post yesterday on the subject of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and whether they represent us, I was encouraged to see a few others pop up with a similar line of thinking. Mark Hinkle actually delved into the OSI by-laws and reported what he found. Reuven Lerner opened the question of [...]

There has been significant conversation around the OSI of late, spurred by Bruce Perens campaign to become a board member. Having had a long history myself in Free and Open Source Software, the recent activity bears reflection and begs the question “What is the purpose of the Open Source Initiative?” Let’s take a look at [...]

Sys-Con just announced that Hyperic HQ has been nominated for this summer’s Reader’s Choice Awards. The category we were nominated for is Best Virtualization Platforms Monitoring & Reporting. The nomination process is open until Sunday June 22nd, and the voting period will be until November 15. The final results will be at the upcoming 4th [...]

I was quite startled to learn yesterday that next week is OSBC (the Open Source Business Conference). As in, 7 days from now. We’ve got a few things going on at this year’s edition. Javier will appear in the panel I’ll Show You My Forge If You Show Me Yours at 10:30am on Wednesday, March [...]

Via 451 CAOS Theory, just learned that the Software Freedom Law Center settled its GPL infringement suit with Verizon. I’ll leave the details of the case as an exercise for the reader, but it basically involves a company not adhering to the terms of the GPL. As Jay Lyman of The 451 Group notes, this [...]

Among the business news for the day, the acquisition of Blade Logic by BMC definitely stands out. Because some of our customers use Blade Logic, we’ve been asked how we feel about today’s news. The answer? We feel fine :) On paper, it looks like a fine marriage, but of course the devil is in [...]

As I tossed away requests from pleading charities, climbed over some people to get the last bus seat, and rushed to push the close button on the elevator so as not to share the space with the person running through the lobby, I came across this list from Forbes of America’s greediest cities. As I [...]

Those crazy Europeans. They have now issued a statement “quietly” endorsing Open Source software for use by local governments. Simon Phipps says it’s a matter of sovereignty. Glyn Moody likes the announcement overall but questions the use of “weasel words” like interoperability. And Matthew Aslett notes that the strategy document “was actually adopted in February [...]

Jonathan Bryce, co-founder of Mosso, is gaining lots of notoriety in the media for his expertise in deploying and managing a complex production environment that includes lots of virtualization. While Jonathan & team deserve their just glory for their achievements and pure smarts on the subject – Hyperic also manages to get a mention as [...]

As I listened to today’s OpenNMS and Hyperic HyperCAST, it occurred to me that I haven’t posted a couple of previous archives. Which is a shame, because there have been some great ones. HyperCAST 8 was all about upgrading to Hyperic HQ 3.2.x. It includes some live demos of upgrades in action, and covers upgrades [...]

Let the good times begin! The official HyperCAST on HOWTO integrate Hyperic and OpenNMS is now ready for your viewing pleasure! David Hustace, OpenNMS President and Charles Lee, co-founder and VP of Engineering at Hyperic, teamed up together to discuss and show how Hyperic & OpenNMS work together. The HyperCAST was popular indeed, with for [...]