We are proud to announce that the former Hyperic Forums have been successfully migrated to a new Hyperic VMware Community. As stated in a blog late last year, this is an important milestone for Hyperic users worldwide. This marks the final step in the transition of the customer experience into the larger family of products [...]

UPDATE: Migration will now start on January 31st, at 6 pm PST. On February 1st, we will migrate the independent Hyperic Forums over to the overall VMware Communities.  All forums, messages, threads, announcements and reward points will be migrated over to a new Hyperic VMware Community. User history will be attached based on email address. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The term innovation opportunity has been discussed by Matthew Aslett, who described it as “the potential to lower development costs for business users, while at the same time raising their potential to focus on innovative development.” This falls in line with the view that an open model is more efficient, but how exactly is it [...]

The first release of Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta is now available for download. This exciting new release is designed to provide a more powerful “single pane of glass” to monitor, diagnose and manage today’s complex, custom, web-based IT environments. In addition, significant infrastructure enhancements to the core Hyperic HQ platform were added to deliver the [...]

I just got back from 3 days off. In startup-land, that is virtually akin to 3 weeks. However, upon my return I was humbled by how much got done without me. In fact, really – how much even got done without a Hyperic employee. It is no secret Hyperic’s community is growing. We now have [...]