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 [...]

The built-in HQ database is PostgreSQL. Recently, users have been discovering PostgreSQL has a certain limitation: it will not execute more than 2 billion transactions between vacuums. In rare cases, an HQ built-in database can get into this state. If this happens, the database will stop accepting connections and HQ, which needs a data store, [...]

Apple announced its latest version of its popular Mac OS X distribution, code named Leopard, on Friday, October 26. Today, November 12, Hyperic announced that Hyperic HQ now includes support for Leopard, giving Mac developers and administrators alike access to fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management for the new OS. Businesses, particularly in the technology sector, [...]

It has been a couple of years since the Hyperic development team decided to adopt Macs and OS X as our standard development environment, probably around the time when my Toshiba Windows XP laptop was threatening to spiral itself into oblivion for the second time in as many years. Eventually, I paid a second $600+ [...]

Ubuntu, the outstandingly popular desktop Linux distribution, announced its latest version on Thursday, October 18. Today, October 25th, Hyperic announced that Hyperic HQ now includes support for Gutsy Gibbon, giving administrators of the Linux-based operating system access to fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management for the new OS, and becoming the first IT management provider to [...]

You may have heard Javier talk about our “BRE” software, which stands for Best Release Ever. It is what we call every one of our releases (yes, we have another one shaping up for this winter!). So, after our release last week, the team got together on Friday night to celebrate. Of course, as we [...]

It’s been a big month here at Hyperic. We left off last month shipping the GA version of Hyperic HQ 3.1, and now today, we have just shipped our shiny new version of Hyperic HQ 3.1 Enterprise.  Releases are always a major event for a company, but this release also marked an important milestone in our [...]

Hyperic customer deployments are growing at a tremendous pace – they’re scaling out managing thousands of resources with 10s of thousands of metrics and events being tracked every minute. In this kind of environment, scale is an absolute requirement and something that takes sound technical architecture, talented engineering, and most of all, maturity in the [...]

Skype’s outage this morning (and the ensuing uproar from it’s dedicated users) served as yet another example of how a critical online service is under constant risk of upsetting its users and losing business due. While the true cause of the outage has not been officially communicated by the folks at Skype, it’s precisely these [...]