As a tech entrepreneur and startup veteran, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to start a new company these days. Assuming an entrepreneur wants to be successful, my conclusion is that the only real choices for the basis of a new technology company are open source, the cloud (including SaaS) or innovation [...]

Kevin Burton’s New Feedblog wants help finding good open source software for IT monitoring.  Although Mr. Burton needs an IT monitoring solution, almost anybody making a software choice faces the same challenge. Not so long ago, when a business decided to solve a problem with software, the calculus was simpler: make or buy. Software products [...]

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 [...]

Almost time for the weekend, but not without HyperLINKS! Dana Blankenhorn names virtualization “the secret sauce of the cloud” and Firefox as the threat to open source Gmail users aren’t catching a break with another outage complication Sarah Perez raises the question…is there more security with traditional computing?

In today’s LINKS…Open Source networks officially under protection It’s official…court ruling states that open source will be protected under copyright law Dave Rosenberg creates two buckets of the cloud to help place your enterprise into Server outages cause a distrust in the cloud

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…LinuxWorld coverage rolling in, Cloud Computing discussion continues IBM has full confidence in the cloud, investing $360 million into the service Mike Gunderloy questions the boundaries of open source A plethora of companies express growing interest on the cloud

Friday the first…Everyone, everywhere trying to claim the cloud Dell puts dibs on “cloud computing” as trademark Who will dominate the cloud? Allan Leinwand thinks the answer is a decade away Mike Gunderloy writes that architecture will hold precedence over licensing laws with open source and the cloud…Tim O’Reilly provides input with his own essay

The end of July brings new possibilities of an open source cloud The industry is still talking about the Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo announcement. InfoWorld’s Bill Snyder adds his take to the news 451 Group releases their CAOS Theory, reporting the increase of community Linux distributions Here it comes! The virtual sprawl is hitting Wall [...]

Mid-week HyperLINKS bring cloud coverage and virtualization to the surface The Yankee Group foresees virtualization as the solution for corporate enterprises Matthew Aslett raises a good question for the future…who will be the first to establish an open source cloud? More and more companies drifting into the cloud…eBay is in the works of creating a [...]

Lots of moving and shaking today and we are not just talking about the earthquake in Southern California. Here are today’s HyperLINKS: HP, Intel and Yahoo are partnering with governments and academic institutions to create an open source cloud computing test bed with six distributed centers Gunjan Trivedi offers a great analysis of cloud computing [...]

OSCON comes to a close while System Administrators are celebrated Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller posted a CloudStatus demo video and interview with engineer Jon Travis. Stacey Higginbotham writes about VC’s increasing interest in the cloud, mentioning Hyperic as an option for monitoring Denise Dubie highlights today’s Sys Admin holiday Dan Kusnetzky ponders on the question, “If [...]

OSCON news continues…But the “Spam King” is not forgotten Penny stock “Spam King” flees prison by foot, deciding he had had enough of his stay Tim O’Reilly’s speech at OSCON determines that the future must be “open,” in particular with Cloud Computing, Open Web and Mobile Serdar Yegulalp of InformationWeek interviews Jim Zemlin of the [...]

Lots of news coming out of OSCON today, but we’ll start HyperLINKS with some additional S3 outage coverage and a CloudStatus reference. Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer puts in her two cents about the S3 outage, and even includes quotes from Hyperic’s Jon Travis In more S3 outage news, Fortune’s Michal Lev-Ram talks [...]

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…OUCH! Tarus at OpenNMS talks about Dave Hustace’s new project, OUCH to be revealed at LinuxWorld. OUCH stands for OpenNMS-Ubuntu-Concursive-Hyperic <grin> TechCrunch is planning to use open source to create their own web tablet device, essentially creating a source similar to a desktop Jack M. Germain writes about the security concerns facing VMs

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 [...]

Very interesting headlines in today’s HyperLINKS. Here are Tuesday’s tidbits: VMware’s CEO and co-founder, Diane Green, has been let go and Paul Maritz (a former Microsoft Exec) is replacing her Larry Dignan writes about a study that has shown the staggering rise in enterprise IT investment since 1994, from $3.5k per employee then, to $8k [...]

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 [...]

Apple is not the only one making headlines, systems management still gets some play amongst the noise… Oliver Marks writes an interesting piece discussing Management 2.0: the role of systems management in a world ruled by Web 2.0 technologies and the consumerization of IT Alan Shimel discusses the pros and cons of centralized computing and [...]

TGIF! This marks the first full week of our HyperLINKS – hopefully you’re finding that its news you can use. So without further ado, it looks like a Hyperic filled Friday. Our favorite :) We’re first to make news today – as Redmonk’s newest customer we had our first customer briefing. Michale Cote came up [...]

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 [...]

InfoWorld has published extensive interviews with a stable of Open Source thought leaders on the eve of the Open Source Business Conference. Dubbed The Open Source Roundtable, it delivers a series of interviews with 11 individuals on the vanguard of Open Source, including, I was pleased to learn, Javier Soltero. For the sake of completeness, [...]

This was an interesting article by Nick Carr that popped up in Google Reader today – it’s about the Bebo acquisition by AOL and how the founders have been rewarded handsomely, to the tune of $800 million, with diddly squat going to the artists who contributed site content. From the article: As for the millions [...]

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 [...]

There has been significant conversation around the OSI of late, spurred by Bruce Perens campaign to become a board member. Having had a long history myself in Free and Open Source Software, the recent activity bears reflection and begs the question “What is the purpose of the Open Source Initiative?” Let’s take a look at [...]