Hyperic in the News

See what the media is saying about Hyperic in recent news and feature articles listed below.

• A How-To Guide To Cloud Computing
  InformationWeek - December 6, 2008
  IT departments experienced at managing Web apps and infrastructure will find that cloud computing has similarities. Hyperic has a version of its Web application monitoring software that runs in Amazon Web Services.
• Open Source: It's All About The Value Add
  InfoWorld - December 1, 2008
  There are many other companies like Hyperic, SugarCRM, MuleSource, JasperSoft, and MySQL who have their own variations on how to make money with open source products. It's the traditional closed source business model that is broken at this point.
• IT's Next Headache: Cloud Chaos
  InformationWeek - November 19, 2008
  Hyperic continues to do amazing things in the area of application peformance monitoring. Its latest version of HQ 4.0 can now work with applications in the datacenter, as well as applications "in the cloud" at Amazon.
• Hyperic 4.0 For Cloud Watchers
  Heise Online - November 17, 2008
  Hyperic 4.0 is the first monitoring software able, not only to handle local virtual machines and servers, but also virtual machines in Amazon's EC2.
• Hyperic Supports the Cloud
  InfoWorld - November 16, 2008
  Hyperic continues to do amazing things in the area of application peformance monitoring. Its latest version of HQ 4.0 can now work with applications in the datacenter, as well as applications in the cloud at Amazon.
• Hyperic Hires Salesforce.com Executive
  CNET - November 14, 2008
  This week Hyperic announced that it has hired Matt Stodolnic, former vice president, Interactive Marketing and Creative Services at Salesforce.com, as its vice president of Marketing.
• Open source management vendor takes on the cloud
  NetworkWorld - November 13, 2008
  Hyperic this week introduced an upgrade to its platforms that lets IT managers monitor virtual environments, better plan for capacity and track performance of services delivered via cloud computing.
• Hyperic Releases HQ 4.0, Hires Former Salesforce Exec
  Virtualization.com - November 13, 2008
  Hyperic HQ is the first software that enables the modern enterprise to monitor its Amazon Web Services securely alongside internal infrastructure. It is also the first enterprise-class monitoring and management software offered for deployment and payment directly though Amazon Web Services.
• Hyperic To Monitor Amazon Cloud From The Inside
  InformationWeek - November 12, 2008
  Hyperic has built cloud monitoring into its core Hyperic HQ Enterprise 4.0 system. It can monitor the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud alongside traditional data center's Web applications.
• Hyperic Cozies Up to Amazon EC2 Apps
  eWeek - November 11, 2008
  An application management solution for Amazon.com's Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud computing offering that joins Hyperic's existing support for the Google App Engine.
• Cloud Computing: Emerging Tools Give IT Hands-On Management Access
  CIO Magazine - November 11, 2008
  Cloud computing is almost a repeat of what we saw with virtualization. Hyperic is in the lead to help guide IT departments through these cloud initiatives
• SpringSource Exchange Debuts, Showcases Spring-Based Software Applications
  Business Wire - October 29, 2008
  Spring is the most widely-adopted enterprise Java application platform worldwide and many Spring users are looking to maximize their use of Spring-powered applications. With the SpringSource Exchange, SpringSource-certified software providers like Hyperic can help the Spring Community expand its success by offering access to their solution with just a single click.
• Hyperic Hypes New Partner Programme
  CRN - October 16, 2008
  Open source web management vendor Hyperic has unveiled its Hyperic Partner Network Programme, as an expansion of its global partner programme.
• SOPERA GmbH to Be Hyperic Certified Distributor in Germany
  Business Wire - October 14, 2008
  Hyperic announced that SOPERA GmbH, will become a Hyperic Certified distributor in Germany, with reseller rights that extend to German-speaking portions of Austria and Switzerland.
• Hyperic Generates Momentum Europe-Wide
  Roberto Galoppini's Blog - September 16, 2008
  Hyperic, the provider of open source web infrastructure management software, is receiving growing attention in Europe, as results from an announcement about over seas expansion earlier this year, involving the European partner France's Dalet Digital Media Systems.
• Windows Networking: Three Top NMS Picks
  Enterprise Networking Planet - September 16, 2008
  We should also address a common misconception among people who maintain that if it's open source, it's not scalable and it is not enterprise-class software. This is not true. OpenNMS and Hyperic, two of the three we're covering, are deployed in large enterprises.
• Monitoring online services: What's your CloudStatus?
  ComputerWorld Blogs - August 7, 2008
  You may avoid putting your data into Amazon.com's S3 cloud-based storage repository; and you also may eschew its E2 on-demand compute services. But your business partners in your supply chain or IT service suppliers may utterly depend on the cloud for their operations. Well, then, in effect, you do, too.
• LinuxWorld Gets Underway in San Francisco
  Ostatic - August 4, 2008
  The LinuxWorld conference kicked off in San Francisco today, and OStatic will be providing reports throughout the week. Among news already coming out of the conference, Hyperic has introduced a way to manage XenServer from a central dashboard, and Unison is showing a lash-up that provides PBX features, groupware and more for a single Linux server.
• Big Bucks Lure New Blood in Virtualization Tools
  InternetNews.com - August 4, 2008
  As enterprises continue investing heavily in virtual environments and infrastructure, more vendors are throwing their hats into the ring while others are putting up their dukes.
• LinuxWorld Preview: Mobility Mavens, Mock Elections and Robot Cars
  Application Development Trends - August 4, 2008
  We all know that Linux, the free and open-source operating system once the very icon of counterculture computing, is now solidly a mainstream technology running servers in every major industry and spinning hard drives for a burgeoning fleet of corporate desktops. But Linux hasn't lost its edge cred; Stanford is using it to run robot cars.
• Cloud Cafe #11 Podcast about CloudStatus
  John Willis's Blog - July 27, 2008
  This podcast is with Jon Travis of Hyperic. Our main focus is on cloudstatus.com. The podcast was a little bit rough around the edges but in the end we got her done. I think on some questions Jon and I were not connecting however in the end I learned a few things I didn't know about cloudstatus.com
• Amazon S3 outage: What does it mean?
  Seattle Post Intelligencer - July 22, 2008
  The affected service, Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3, allows users to store data and files that can be accessed from anywhere on the Web. (I have just returned from out of town, so that's why there was no post here yesterday.)
• Monitoring the Status of 'The Cloud'
  Seattle Post Intelligencer - July 16, 2008
  A few days ago, I wrote about the ecosystem that is growing around cloud computing. CloudStatus.com monitors the health of Amazon's cloud for other users. From a quick glance at CloudStatus.com, one can see how Amazon Web Services is running.
• Open Source Systems Management: Some Pieces that Caught My Eye
  Commercial Open Source Software Blog - July 11, 2008
  Hyperic, the provider of open source web infrastructure management software, announced the availability of the beta of CloudStatus, a tool providing an independent view of how works the Amazon Web Services cloud.
• Shining a Light into Amazon's Darkness
  GRIDtoday.com - June 30, 2008
  Hyperic, known for its tools that let users monitor and manage their applications running on the Web, has launched a new hosted service for users of Amazon Web Services.
• Cloud Computing's Identity Crisis: Does a Definition Matter?
  GRIDtoday.com - June 30, 2008
  Cloud computing - what the heck is it? Not only do I not possess the magic definition (and I talk about it nearly every day), but I'm not convinced anyone does.
• Hyperic Tells Amazon's Cloud to Turn its Head, Cough
  The Register - June 25, 2008
  Open source systems management specialist Hyperic is sticking its inquisitive probe into Amazon.com's cloud. The firm this week launched cloudstatus.com, a website that monitors and reports the status of Amazon's web services.
• Independent Company Monitors 'The Cloud'
  Seattle Post Intelligencer - June 25, 2008
  Before this week, if you wanted to check on Amazon.com's Web services availability, you had to visit the company's own site. But there is now an independent source on the availability of Amazon Web Services.
• Hyperic CloudStatus - Starting the Ball Rolling
  Redmonk Blogs: People Over Process - June 25, 2008
  Earlier this week, Hyperic released their free dashboard of Amazon Web Services monitoring, Cloud Status. Aside from having slick looking graphics, the interesting thing here is the beginning of figuring out what it means to manage "the cloud."
• CloudStatus.com
  The 451 Group Blogs: Cloud Cover - June 25, 2008
  Just back from a meeting with Hyperic, where Jay Lyman and I were given a demo of the company's new hosted service. It aims to give real-time and historically trended performance metrics on all five Amazon Web services: Elastic Compute Cloud, SimpleDB, Simple Storage Service, Simple Queue Service and Flexible Payments Service.
• Hyperic To Monitor Amazon.com's Cloud Computing Availability
  InformationWeek - June 24, 2008
  Cloud computing may have an irresistible appeal to those who want access to a big data center without building one. But Hyperic thinks being able to see into the cloud will give the wary IT manager an added incentive to sign up.
• 3 Free Web Measurement Tools Debut at Velocity Conference
  Network World - June 24, 2008
  At the first ever O'Reilly Velocity conference in San Francisco yesterday we witnessed the debut of three new tools to measure website performance - KITE, Jiffy and CloudStatus. Not only are these tools very cool and useful, they are also free!
• Hyperic Tracks the Cloud
  ComputerWorld UK - June 24, 2008
  In a world where computing - or at least some of it - is moving into the cloud, one of the interesting questions is: What is the place of free software there? One open source company that seems to know is Hyperic.
• Apple Universe Podcast #128 - CloudStatus
  AppleUniverse Blog - June 24, 2008
  While covering Velocity 2008 for the Apple Universe Podcast, we stop by Hyperic, to learn about their product and their news announcement.
• CloudStatus Opens Up Cloud Performance Metrics
  TechCrunch IT - June 23, 2008
  At the O'Reilly Velocity conference today, Hyperic will announce and launch their new cloud service monitoring and logging service CloudStatus.com.
• A Window on the Cloud
  GigaOm - June 23, 2008
  Outsourcing compute power is wonderful - until something goes wrong. Unfortunately, when an Amazon Web Service goes down it's hard to know why, and it's even harder to know how well a particular cloud is performing in the first place.
• Hyperic Delivering Cloud Computing Weather Reports
  ZDNet Blogs - June 23, 2008
  Hyperic, the maker of Web infrastructure monitoring software, is offering users the first peek inside cloud computing systems, starting with that of Amazon.
• Hyperic Launches CloudStatus, Cloud Management Software Deluxe
  Virtualization.com - June 23, 2008
  In an impressive effort to make the cloud more transparent, open source cloud management software vendor Hyperic has launched CloudStatus.com, a web service (in beta) that lets a user peek in on the various compute clouds to see how things are running.
• SLAs Are a Dark Spot on the Cloud Computing Horizon
  eWeek Blogs - June 23, 2008
  Every where you turn these days everybody wants to talk about the new wonders of cloud computing. There's no doubt that cloud computing services will play a significant role in enterprise computing.
• Hyperic Service Peers Into Amazon Cloud
  CNET News.com - June 23, 2008
  Cloud computing is growing in popularity, thanks in large part to the availability of Web-based services that take some of the pain out of IT management.
• Hyperic CloudStatus Service Dashboard Launches at Velocity
  O'Reilly Radar - June 23, 2008
  Javier Soltero just launched CloudStatus during his Hyperic sponsor session today at Velocity. CloudStatus is a public health dashboard for web services like Amazon's EC2/S3, and Google's App Engine.
• GigaOm: How Is Your Cloud Performing?
  Ostatic.com - June 23, 2008
  Cloud computing and the whole trend toward outsourcing compute power are hot topics, but how do you know when there is a problem out in the cloud?
• Free Service Tracks Amazon Cloud's Performance
  IDG News Service - June 23, 2008
  Customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) can now get free, real-time performance metrics through a site called CloudStatus. The service from system management software vendor Hyperic is now in beta.
• Hyperic CloudStatus Peers Into Amazon's Cloud
  SearchServerVirtualization.com - June 23, 2008
  Following the wave of interest in cloud computing, Web infrastructure management software provider Hyperic Inc. has launched a free service that reports on the health and performance of cloud computing environments, starting with the family of Amazon Web Services.
• Virtual Goo
  Network World - June 16, 2008
  Virtualization is hard to contain. That makes the virtual infrastructure difficult to manage and nearly impossible to optimize for performance. A look at the challenge.
• Rentable Virtual Infrastructure: Right For You?
  CIO - June 13, 2008
  What gets Matthew Porter, the CEO of Contegix, most excited about virtualization is the technology's ability to solve his customers' problems-most importantly, their needs for better hardware utilization and speedier server provisioning and application delivery.
• IT Management in the Age of Cloud Computing
  eWeek Blogs: Masked Intentions - June 11, 2008
  One of the questions that becomes apparent when thinking about the advent of cloud computing in the enterprise is how IT organizations will go about holistically managing everything inside and outside the cloud.
• Random Sampler: Boy Scouts Go Free, Mozilla Improves Email, and More
  CNET Blogs: The Open Road - June 11, 2008
  You know open source has arrived when the Boy Scouts of America start promoting its principles and adoption and the LDS (Mormon) Church starts hiring open-source developers. This week, we get both and more in today's edition of Random Sampler.
• Mike Olson Joins Hyperic...Sort of
  CNET Blogs: The Open Road - June 9, 2008
  Mike Olson sold his open-source database startup, Sleepycat, to Oracle and earlier this year left Oracle to spend time with family. The family, however, had other plans and has booted him out of the house.
• New Customer, Hyperic; Also, Mike Olson Surfaces
  Redmonk Blogs: People Over Process - June 6, 2008
  We signed up Hyperic yesterday as a RedMonk customer, finally filling out the once so-called Little 4? (there's only 3 of them now) along-side Zenoss and Groundwork Open Source.
• Virtually Speaking: VMware Everywhere
  ServerWatch.com - June 4, 2008
  VMware Infrastructure 3 took top honors in the Virtualization Platform category, while Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition and Sun xVM took the runner-up spots. In the Virtualization Tool category, VMLogix LabManager Manager came in first and Hyperic HQ was runner up.
• 10 Server Room Must-Haves
  ServerWatch.com - June 3, 2008
  Last week, voting wrapped up for the Third Annual ServerWatch Product Excellence Awards. The anticipation has been building for a week, but they can now release the results, and guess who got runner-up for best virtualization tool....
• Interview: Hyperic on Scalability, and Monitoring Performance
  Ostatic - May 27, 2008
  Ostatic interviews Hyperic about recently announced test results showing Hyperic HQ doing very large scale monitoring in conjunction with Sun's MySQL database.
• OEM Deal Extends Reach Of Hyperic Open-Source Management Tool
  CRN - May 15, 2008
  Mr.Whiting writes about how under the OEM deal Terracotta is incorporating Hyperic's cross-platform, cross-language SIGAR (systems information gathering and reporter) programming interface into Terracotta 2.6, the latest release of the vendor's software.
• Using Agent-Based Monitoring Despite Reservations
  Tech Target - May 15, 2008
  Mrs.Santosus writes about how from its St. Louis data center, Contegix uses Hyperic's open source HQ management tool to monitor its own applications, and customers can use the system to get their own metrics.
• Scaling MySQL Beyond LAMP Websites
  TheServerSide.com - May 15, 2008
  Our very own Mr.Scott Feldstein writes about how we have built Hyperic HQ to manage web applications, the same ones which developers and operations staff are building and running on MySQL. However, until recently, MySQL was not a supported database backend for HQ. Early this year - we delivered a highly scalable solution backed by MySQL.
• Guide to Server Management
  PC World - May 13, 2008
  Mrs. Dubie writes about how the hottest thing in server management these days is taming the virtual server beast.
• Hyperic Announces MySQL Performance Study Results
  TMCnet.com - May 9, 2008
  Mr. Shanbhag talks about a new study from Hyperic Inc., a Web infrastructure management software provider, shows that one of its applications could monitor 2.3 million metric transactions per minute with Sun Microsystems MySQL as its backend database.
• Hyperic Proves MySQL Can Become Industrial-Strength
  OnStrategies.com - May 8, 2008
  Mr. Baer writes about how MySQL, long known as the little open source web database that could, has grown enormously popular as the back end database for modest blog and websites like ours. But when it comes to the large transaction loads common to mission-critical systems, nobody has taken MySQL seriously.
• Red Hat Heads For The JON 2.0
  InternetNews - May 7, 2008
  Mr. Kerner writes about the JBoss Operations Network (JON) 2.0 product product itself and is not entirely born of Red Hat's efforts alone. In fact, JON is the offshoot for the RHQ open middleware management project between Red Hat and open source vendor Hyperic.
• Adding Flavour to the Java Brew
  ZDNet UK - May 7, 2008
  Adrian Bridgewater gives a snapshot of his experiences at this years JavaOne in San Francisco.
• Why Only Two?
  The Tech Teapot - April 25, 2008
  Jack Hughes responds to John Willis over at IT Management and Cloud Blog about how he posted an interesting post that he responds to.
• GigaSpaces Dashboard Using Hyperic Plugin
  Nati Shalom's Blog - April 22, 2008
  Nati Shalom writes about how Alexey Kharlamov created a project that implements a Hyperic plugin for GigaSpaces. It is available as an open source project on OpenSpaces.org.
• The Mighty Two - Zenoss
  ESM Blog - April 21, 2008
  John M Willis writes about how he believes with Qlusters gone and IMHO, Groundwork feeding off the bottom there are only two commercially viable open source enterprise systems management (ESM) monitoring tools left on the market.
• OpenQrm Goes Solo After Qlusters Dumps Open Source Strategy
  ZDNet - April 25, 2008
  openQRM is looking for a new sponsor following its separation from Qlusters earlier this month. The departure and speculated that Qlusters corporate could be in trouble. Qlusters and Hyperic were designated by the research firm last year as part of the "Big 4" open source systems management companies.
• The Little "3" of Open Source Systems Management?
  Linux Today - April 13, 2008
  Mark Hinkle talks about Qlusters/openQRM announcement that they would no longer be developing their open source project openQRM and leaving it to the community at large.
• Hyperic HQU Released - An Interview with Stacey Schneider
  Commercial Open Source Software Blog - April 11, 2008
  Hyperic released a new UI plugin framework named Hyperic HQU, enabling administrators to develop new modular UI components via web services, and announced also a partnership with OpenNMS, a popular open source network management solution.
• Hyperic Plug-in Customizes System Monitor Interface
  eWeek - March 25, 2008
  Open-source Web infrastructure management provider Hyperic on March 26 will make it easier for users to customize and integrate its HQ monitoring software through a new plug-in framework.
• Laying the Groundwork for OS Systems Management
  InternetNews.com - March 27, 2008
  The systems management space has been dominated by proprietary vendors like IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView for years, though in recent years open source upstarts are trying to make a dent. Among those upstarts are GroundWork and Hyperic, both of whom are out this week with new product releases.
• Hyperactive Hyperic
  ComputerWorld UK - March 11, 2008
  Hyperic is one of the high-flyers in the world of enterprise open source, and it's well worth keeping an eye on its moves as an indication of some of the latest trends there.
• Hyperic and OpenNMS Make it Official
  TechTarget - March 6, 2008
  Megan Santosus writes an overview of the Hyperic and OpenNMS partnership and product integration.
• The Year of Integration
  The Mouth of OpenNMS - March 6, 2008
  The OpenNMS blog's writes about the Hyperic and OpenNMS partnership and product integration.
• JBoss Conference: Right Moves, More Details Would Have Been Welcome
  Ovum UK - February 22, 2008
  Laurent Lachal writes an overview on the JBOSS Conference, including the RHQ news.
• Are Europeans Better Contributors to the Open Source Community?
  Open Source Weblog - February 21, 2008
  Jason Stamper blogs on the differences between the US and the European open source communities and the Hyperic's RHQ project with Red Hat.
• Hyperic Making Hay in Open Source Web Management
  CBR - February 21, 2008
  Open source web infrastructure management provider Hyperic's CEO, Javier Soltero, says the company is seeing rapid growth on a number of fronts.
• How Broadly Will RHQ be Used?
  InfoWorld - February 20, 2008
  Savio Rodrigues blogs about the Red Hat-Hyperic partnership project, RHQ, with information from Hyperic's presentation at JBOSS World.
• Red Hat, Hyperic Make Theirs An Open Relationship
  eWeek - February 14, 2008
  Red Hat and Hyperic paired up on Valentine's Day to launch a new open-source management platform project. The primary focus of the project is to insure interoperability of management agents from both Red Hat and Hyperic.
• Red Hat and Hyperic Launch an New Open Source Project
  John Willis's Blog - February 14, 2008
  John Willis covers the Red Hat and Hyperic RHQ news, saying that as JBOSS increases its market presentation, the joint project "can only mean good things for Hyperic and gang."
• Red Hat, Hyperic Launch RHQ Project to Manage JBoss Sites
  Tech Target - February 14, 2008
  Red Hat and Hyperic officially launched the RHQ project which aims to create a common management platform that combines the strengths of Red Hat's operating system and Hyperic remote monitoring systems to identify and remedy Web site "plumbing" problems.
• Red Hat's JBoss Dons Black Tie to Target BEA Tuxedo
  The Industry Standard - February 14, 2008
  Elizabeth Montalbano writes about recent Red Hat news, including the RHQ announcement.
• Red Hat launches JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, 3 New Open Source Projects
  ZDNet - February 14, 2008
  Open Source - Paula Rooney reports on a couple recent Red Hat announcements, including the RHQ announcement with Hyperic.
• Red Hat, Hyperic Start Open-Source Project
  InfoWorld - February 14, 2008
  Red Hat and Hyperic have formed an open source project for developing a core set of IT infrastructure management capabilities. Dubbed RHQ, the project's source code will be available under the GPL v2 license.
• CNET Selects Hyperic to Manage its Web Operations
  CNET - February 6, 2008
  CNET's history shows that it doesn't buy what it can build better. In Hyperic, it apparently met its match.
• Hyperic Integrates Nagios, MySQL Into Systems Management Suite
  TechTarget - February 6, 2008
  Megan Santosus writes about HQ 3.2, citing the details about the upgrades-MySQL integration, as well as integration with the Nagios open source network monitoring tool.
• Hyperic and Managing by Exception
  ZDNet - February 5, 2008
  Dan Kusnetzky blogs about Hyperic HQ 3.2, mentioning that since they have moved their own data store to the MySQL database, they've improved the scalability and performance of the management environment as well as added new capabilities to the management environment.
• Hyperic Web Site Management Tool Now Linked To MySQL
  InformationWeek - January 31, 2008
  Charles Babcock writes about the release of Hyperic HQ 3.2, and includes several quotes by Javier about the updates and the Nagios monitoring integration.
• Hyperic 3.2 Update
  InfoWorld - January 31, 2008
  Zack Urlocker blogs about Hyperic HQ 3.2 update, providing technical details into its monitoring capabilities.
• Hyperic Enhances Its Web App Diagnostic Tool
  Application Development Trends - January 30, 2008
  Hyperic is offering a new version of its open source management solution for large-scale hosted Web applications. Hyperic HQ 3.2 incorporates improved monitoring and reporting features.
• Hyperic Gains Momentum in Europe
  CNET - January 30, 2008
  Matt Asay blogs about Hyperic's customer momentum in Europe, citing a stronger open source community and that government is driving IT spending toward open source.
• Unisys Predicts CIOs in 2008 Will Expand Use of Open Source Solutions
  Business Wire - January 15, 2008
  As solutions include more and more open source content, from middleware to business applications, open source will become key in helping management respond to increasing pressure to align IT with business goals while spending less money and leveraging existing assets more effectively.
• Industry Leaders' Retrospective
  Virtual Strategy Magazine - January 8, 2008
  This past year was a important year for the virtualization industry. For the first time Virtualization became a household name with the VMware IPO and the acquisition of XenSource by Citrix.
• The Five Open Source Business Models
  InformationWeek - January 2, 2008
  Open source has become standard in Silicon Valley, with nearly every software startup planning to release at least some code. So far, they've found five main business models...