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 [...]

It’s cloudy here in SF, and a “cloudy” day for news. Here are today’s top picks: Michael Vizard writes about cloud computing and outlines three different perspectives of the cloud: applications, platforms and infrastructure. We think the market will rally around these definitions. Eric Lundquist interviews VMware CEO Dianne Greene about the challenges facing VMware [...]

The week started off with a bang, and so will the HyperLINKs: Ok, so monitoring can’t solve EVERY problem…ThePlanet’s datacenter exploded this past weekend, leaving 9000 servers offline, including the LoopFuse servers that host part of our newsletter. Sorry for those who missed out on our graphics this weekend, they’re back up now. Ed Burnette [...]

Welcome to the first edition of HyperLINKS! At Hyperic, we spend a lot of time listening to the overall web operations community at large, and we thought we’d pass on to our community on a daily basis the gems that stand out. Our hope is this is news you can use. So without further ado, [...]