The latest release for our award winning web application monitoring and management software, VMware vFabric Hyperic 4.5, is now available for download! Coming just three months after our 4.4 release, and five months after our 4.3 release, this release builds on previous releases for the Hyperic 4 family and focuses on updating the underlying infrastructure to a modern, lightweight, and modular architecture. Taking advantage of the deep capabilities of both the Spring java application framework and Apache Tomcat servlet container, the Hyperic development team has improved performance and streamlined development time for future features and provided faster turnaround for bug fixes.

I’d like to follow up this week’s announcements of VMware’s IT as a Service strategy and VMware vFabric by zeroing in on the challenges surrounding cloud application performance management, and how vFabric Hyperic can help you meet those challenges. As our CEO Paul Maritz mentioned at yesterday’s VMworld keynote, our industry has hit a tipping [...]

Thursday’s HyperLINKS bring new developments in the cloud The cloud keeps expanding…Amazon’s EBC reveals new possibilities for the cloud VMware feature continues to float under the radar

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?”

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 [...]

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 [...]

Joe Hernick from InfoWorld released a new report today with some surprising data. The New Sprawl: Managing Virtual Server Environments, published today, Joe announced that only 2% of the 323 InfoWorld Respondents were using a virtualization management strategy that reconciled the physical to the virtual servers (P2V). A whopping 27% were using a “wink and [...]

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 [...]

I’ve written in the past about how enterprise management vendors can act as “Gatekeepers of the Datacenter” by virtue of what technologies they do or don’t support as part of their management solutions. This rather lame dynamic is a big part of the reason why a lot of otherwise great technologies dont make it all [...]

We’ve always been great at giving our customers the ability to manage their VMware servers and guest VM’s, but now we’ve taken the extra step of creating a ready-to-run VMware appliance. Basic platform: Debian 4.0 HQ version: 3.0.5-417 OS Basic install: Have VMware player installed (or server) Start the appliance and login either as root [...]