I would like to introduce you to a the newest member of the HQ 4.0 family. HQ 4.0.2 is the first maintenance release in the 4.0 series (for those keeping score at home, 4.0.1 was our GA release), and is a rollup of all bugs fixed and features added since HQ 4.0.1. Go get it!
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I would like to issue a hearty congratulations to the App Engine team on their recent announcements of quota and dashboard improvements.  We work with many, many software teams, and out of them all, the App Engine team stands out as a bunch of folks excited about making web application development easier, and pushing the [...]

After almost 12 months of design and development, I am proud to announce the general availability of HQ 4.0!
Now past its 5th year of production usage, it’s incredibly cool for me to see how this product has evolved from what we conceived back in 2002. With the help of hundreds of customers and thousands of [...]

Paul McDonald and the App Engine Team spent some time gathering some video case studies of developers who have created scalable web applications on Google’s App Engine. Included are Dave Westwood of BuddyPoke, Charles Ying from PixVerse, and of course - Hyperic’s own Jon Travis on CloudStatus:

IDC confirmed my amateur predictions that the current economic turmoil will indeed be very good for those looking to the cloud. Both from a user perspective, as well as a vendor perspective. In fact, IDC’s Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst, is predicting adoption will accelerate due to market pressures in a recent [...]

The scariest part of today’s economic turmoil is how preventable it was. I am not talking about additional supervision of an uncontrolled finance sector. While the sub-prime market was risky and obviously short-sighted, the overall laws of supply and demand eventually punish those who take unnecessary risks. What is more irresponsible and scary is the [...]

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 complete [...]

Hyperic 4.0 Beta 4
We are one release closer to the launch of 4.0! Hyperic HQ 4.0 is designed for greater ease of implementation, management and scale. It also features a swank new UI, a new API, JMX MBean Query tool and more plugins. If you’re thinking about deploying 4.0, you can start testing it out [...]

It’s no secret that Hyperic is a web-driven open source project and business. All our web properties from hyperic.com, to the wiki, forums and support are invaluable resources for us and our users. When we first started, we managed all these properties ourselves. In fact, as many scrappy startups do - they all started on [...]

It seems like ages since I’ve had the time to blog about Hyperic. Some is due to the addition of the far more eloquent and far more entertaining Jeremy Hogan as the voice of our community. But more it seems that growth is ironically reducing my capacity to cover all the new topics. I was [...]