Today’s HyperLINKS…Important things to remember and be aware of with the cloud More security issues afloat in the cloud Margaret Lewis predicts that there will be complications in the future of virtualization Gordon Haff reminds us not to forget latency when it comes to cloud computing

CloudStatus Google App Engine is released…let the coverage roll in! Om Malik is the first to post on the CloudStatus announcement! Gartner releases its annual spending report…the forecast looks “cloudy” Though VMware and Microsoft are direct competitors, for the time being they are putting their qualms aside in the name of good business

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…Virtualization liscensing about to go underway Microsoft making some major changes to its’ liscensing program Some interesting insight to cloud computing in the Seattle P-I…with a mention of Hyperic’s involvement Get ready…the Xen Community is about to release it’s next feature for review

Hump Day HyperLINKS…Private clouds and Hype Cycles abound Fidelity Investments is aiming to virtualize its server Gartner releases the Hype Cycle, outlining important technology trends to pay attention to John Foley examines the private cloud

Another day is about to come to an end, but not without HyperLINKS! Jeff Vance writes about the future of VMWare The Gmail outage continues to be reported on with Larry Dignan noting the instability of web services and clouds John Suit examines the question, “Is Virtualization the “Cloud” of the Enterprise?”

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 [...]

In today’s HyperLINKS…Amazon gets to the bottom of S3 outage Michael Krigsman of ZDNet writes on Amazon’s analysis of their service failure, calling their post-mortem “mature” A Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates the likelihood of significant decreases in IT jobs, both with in-house and contract staff Forbes’ Bob Worrall discusses the need for more [...]

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

Big outages means big news! Yesterday’s Amazon S3 outage is continuing to make headlines today. Richard MacManus of Read Write Web reveals the many consequences of Amazon’s S3 downtime and raises the question of security within the cloud In a special report on virtualization, Gartner says virtualization is the highest-impact issue changing infrastructure and operations [...]

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 [...]

The day is winding down for us in San Francisco, but not without HyperLINKS. Here are today’s top stories: Daniel Brusilovsky stopped by our booth at Velocity and interviewed the team regarding CloudStatus. Check out his podcast here In other news, IBM has opened up two new cloud computing centers, one in South Africa and [...]

Hyperic is making news today all on its own, with an addition of our new Director of Community Management, Jeremy Hogan and a separate write-up in NetworkWorld on virtualization management. Check out today’s picks: Jeremy Hogan joins Hyperic! Jeremy has some serious experience in growing great communities like Red Hat and Fedora, so we’ll expect [...]

Dan Fost, a freelance reporter for the New York Times, did an article today on virtualization. In the beginning part of his research, he came to me to understand more about how virtualization is changing IT. Dan’s article, titled Closing the Doors That Virtual Sprawl Leaves Open, covers a broad array of topics from the [...]

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 [...]

I had the great pleasure of co-hosting one of Hyperic’s regular webinar series with Jonathan Bryce and Jason Bartels from Mosso. I have spent quite a bit of time with these guys over the past couple months, as Jonathan worked with me to build a case study. Through that experience, I became totally intrigued with [...]