November is a big month for Hyperic customers! Earlier this month, we announced the general availability of Hyperic as part of the new VMware vFabric Application Performance Management solution that is leading VMware’s application management vision. We are also excited to announce that in early 2012, the Hyperic Forums will be migrating to incorporate them [...]

Hyperic + Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry is the revolutionary open platform as a service from VMware that supports multiple frameworks, application services, and clouds. The vFabric Hyperic team is pleased to announce the availability of the free Cloud Foundry plugin for Hyperic that brings Hyperic’s proven ability to monitor, alert, and control application infrastructure resources [...]

Recently we were reading up on our favorite hobby, ogling at WebOps Visualization (so what? we’re geeks), and we came across this post by Jesse Robbins from the O’Reilly Radar that got us thinking about the enormous amounts of data and visualization going on in our very own HQ user base. Some of the most [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.3 is the second maintenance release in the 4.0 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.2. Go get it! To find out what goodies await you in 4.0.3, please checkout [...]

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 [...]

It’s no secret that Hyperic is a web-driven open source project and business. All our web properties from hyperic.com, to the wiki, forums and support are invaluable resources for us and our users. When we first started, we managed all these properties ourselves. In fact, as many scrappy startups do – they all started on [...]

I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 3.2 family. HQ 3.2.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the 3.2 series, and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 3.2.4. Go get it! To find out what goodness 3.2.5 brings (and there’s a lot [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am very excited to have finally formalized our relationship with the Order of the Green Polo, the folks that run OpenNMS. This new partnership and product roadmap highlights the right answer to many questions mulling around our industry. Systems Management Taxonomy – Systems Management is a BIG term. It has many disciplines within it. [...]

As you probably know, Hyperic HQ is an agent-based system management system. That means there is an HQ Server component and a separate HQ Agent component. When you have the HQ Server on one platform and the HQ Agent on a different platform, you run into an interesting trust issue. The HQ Agent operates independent [...]

I love my job. For those that don’t know me too well, I have the privilege of looking after all outbound activity here at Hyperic. In that capacity I get to interact with the community, customers, press and analysts. Sometimes all at once. Thing is, I don’t get to see them that often – its [...]

Today I learned that Hyperic won Enterprise Management Associate’s Award for Open Source Systems Management. What’s more, we discovered that we won the top slot, what EMA calls the ‘First Team All-Star’ position. The idea here is that all teams have a starting lineup, or ‘First Team’ and then a series of reserves, which is [...]

With the new Nagios plugin to be released with Hyperic HQ 3.2, we did a HyperCAST yesterday on its feature set and how to import an existing Nagios configuration. You can view the replay by clicking on the following link. Enjoy!

It’s been a crazy week for us over here at Hyperic. We had partner announcements, board meetings, and big customer wins. In the middle of the usual ‘controlled chaos’ state that we operate in, I came across this recent post from Jesse Robbins over at O’Reilly Radar. For those of you who dont know Jesse [...]