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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

CloudStatus Google App Engine is released…let the coverage roll in! Om Malik is the first to post on the CloudStatus announcement! Gartner releases its annual spending report…the forecast looks “cloudy” Though VMware and Microsoft are direct competitors, for the time being they are putting their qualms aside in the name of good business

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 [...]

At 8:46 PDT this morning, CloudStatus reported that several of the AWS services were experiencing outages. Amazon posted that they were aware of the issue at 9:05 PDT on status.aws.amazon.com. We saw internal server errors coming from the majority of our S3 and SQS monitoring agents. In addition, we experienced other problems with EC2 (many [...]

Hump Day HyperLINKS bring CloudStatus interviews and discussion of virtualization as mainstream Tom Sullivan of InfoWorld questions whether single-vendor open source is getting too risky Paolo Del Nibletto speaks with Forrester Research Analyst Frank Gillett about virtualization evolving into a mainstream market Robin Miller of Linux.com and Slashdot  interviews our very own Jon Travis on [...]

CloudStatus coverage continues while disgruntled San Franciscan blocks FiberWAN access… Hot off the press! Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer covers the CloudStatus announcement John Leyden writes about a peeved employee who blocked access to FiberWAN network, causing an uproar among San Francisco officials Glyn Moody discusses how cloud computers are deemed as “free [...]

HyperLINKS have been going strong for officially one month now and we hope you have enjoyed reading them! Now, without further ado here are today’s top stories: In his wrap-up from last week’s Structure Conference, Dennis Barker writes about cloud computing, and mentions Hyperic’s CloudStatus as one of the best management tools around to help [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]