[Hyperic Newsletter] Hyperic Newsletter: August 14, 2007

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In This Issue: 

* Hyperic 3.0.4 Available 
* Hyperic Scholarship 
* Charle's JDJ Article 
* MySQLCon Report 
* JavaOne Report 
* New Customers 
* Blog Update 
* News Roundup 
* Community Resources 


Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, 

Much has been happening here in Hyperic-land, and I'd like to share all of 
the goings-on with you. From MySQLConf to JavaOne, from the Java Developers' Journal to InfoWorld, the reverberations of Hyperic's activities have been felt far and wide. 

Without further ado, here's what we've been up to: 


Hyperic HQ 3.0.4 Now Available! 

The latest maintenance release of Hyperic HQ, version 3.0.4 is now 
available. This version is a minor release that marks significant 
improvement in UI page load times, most notably when using Browse Resources 
or viewing groups. This minor release also provides improved auto-discovery 
and monitoring of Sybase, as well as initial support for monitoring mod_jk. 

For more details on the release, see the Release Notes:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=17&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

Download Hyperic HQ 3.0.4:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=3&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]


Reminder: $5000 Scholarship Ends In June! 

Hyperic is currently running an essay contest for a scholarship worth $5000 
that ends on June 15, 2007. The $5000 award will go to the individual who 
can most clearly define the IT requirements for systems management of the 
Next Generation Data Center. 

The scholarship is open to all members of university-level IT departments. 
Interested individuals are invited to visit www.hyperic.com/essaycontest/
for essay requirements and contest rules. Winning essays must include 
specific requirements, background and use-case scenarios, real or imagined, 
that describes the types of IT monitoring and analysis that will be required 
by Next Generation Data Centers. 

Time is running out! Spread the word to willing students and ensure all 
submissions are recieved by June 15, 2007. 


Charles Lee's Series on Hibernate Featured in JDJ 

Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, is writing a series of articles for 
the Java Developer's Journal covering Hyperic HQ's migration from EJB2 to 
Hibernate. The first in the series was published in the February issue of 
the JDJ, which you may read online here: 
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=2&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

Charles' second installment appeared on April 26:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=55&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

This latest edition dives into more detail on our change from EJB2 to 
Hibernate POJOs. Look for another issue coming up in May! 


MySQLConf Report 

Hyperic showed up in full force to the MySQL Conference:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=56&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

We had a booth where we met a lot of new potential Hypericans, and 
reconnected with some seasoned veterans. Thanks for all who came by to hang 
out with us! 

In addition, Charles Lee presented Hyperic's Hibernate Migration Case Study:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=23&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

We also showed the crowd of MySQL enthusiasts a little about how we were 
able to port the Hyperic backend database to MySQL using Hibernate. This is 
part of our summer release, and for anyone who wants to check it out a bit 
early jump on our Product Roadmap Forum:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=49&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

MySQLConf was a blast. If you missed it, hopefully we'll see you next year!


JavaOne Report 

It was quite a week at JavaOne. We had a booth on the floor, a pod in the 
.orgZone, and a pod and (well-attended) talk at CommunityOne. Thanks to all 
those using Hyperic that took the extra effort to come by and meet us in 
person! There was quite a number of you, and we were happy to finally meet! 
For those that couldn't make it, here's a quick recap: 

* Charles Lee, Hyperic VP of Engineering, gave a talk on Monday at 
  CommunityOne about how we managed to remove data bottlenecks and scale
  our PostgreSQL usage to accommodate our large data aggregation demands. 
* Heather and John Mark hung out at our CommunityOne pod, where they would 
  assault unsuspecting passersby. Ok, not really, but they enjoyed chatting 
  up attendees. 
* All sorts of things happened in the Hyperic booth on the main JavaOne 
  floor. Check out our blog post for a complete account with pictures:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=44&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]
* Check out the video from the Redmonk interview with Javier Soltero: 
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=45&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]
(warning: some profanity, and the audio leaves something to be desired) 

And remember, if you have your own JavaOne report, post it to our forums:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=32&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]


The Latest on Javier's Blog 

Javier spent a lot of last month talking to analysts, peers and customers. 
One continuous conversation seems to be virtualization optimization and how 
significant a role Hyperic can play in that effort. Check out his post on 

The Virtual Divide: Systems Management vs Virtualization Optimization 
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=46&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

This was a follow up to the white paper we posted last month called 
"Bridging The Virtual Divide"
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=47&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

Javier also posted his recap on the Open Source Think Tank:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=48&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

This was a 2-day event organized by Andrew Aitken of the Olliance Group. 
Highlights include discussions on what customers really want, whether they 
buy Open Source or just the software product, confusion around the GPL, and 
leveraging the sales pyramid. It's a fun read - check it out. 

As our community grows in size and level of product involvement, it's fun to 
see people get real value from what we do - so much value, in fact, that 
they feel motivated to contribute back. Watch our community in action on the 
discussion forums:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=32&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]


Hyperic in the News 

Customers once again headline our news, with the Human Neuroimaging Lab at 
Baylor College of Medicine being the newest to join the fold:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=50&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

The lab has 30 servers managing intense data computations and covering 30 
terabytes of data! The lab deployed Hyperic HQ and began managing all their 
servers and custom-built Java and ColdFusion apps in just 4 hours. From start 
to pretty graphs in 4 hours. Thanks to Justin King at the lab for so proudly 
announcing his success with Hyperic. If you have a story you want to share - 
we want to hear it! Email us at marketing at hyperic.com 

In other news, Matt Asay's blog on InfoWorld gave us props a few times in 
the post Who owns a Product: 
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=51&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

and Let a thousand open source flowers bloom:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=52&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

Doug and Stacey also spent some time with Dan Kuznetsky, the Virtual Man, 
from ZDNet this past month and he's been talking us up quite a bit ever 
since. He even posted about a conversation he had with John Engates, 
Rackspace's CTO:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=53&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

And of course, there is always the news that Gartner finally recognized Open 
Source vendors as a threat to the "big 4" Systems Management vendors. Harper 
Mann, at Infoworld does a nice recap entitled Gartner Jumps on the Bandwagon:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=54&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

We particularly like that he starts out saying: If one uses the "Shift 
Key" to spell out "Big 4"- he gets "BIG $." Nice touch! 

Hyperic Community Resources Available to Everyone 

* Download Hyperic HQ 
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=3&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

- This where you go to get the software. Download either the Open Source HQ 
or a full-featured enterprise trial version. 

* Hyperic HQ Test Ride Guide 
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=37&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

- This document gets to the heart of HQ's functionality. If you just want to 
get started and see what HQ can do, read this document. 

* Full Hyperic Documentation 
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=42&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

- If you want to go in-depth, start at our support documentation page. From 
here you can find release notes, an admin guide, SIGAR documentation, plugin 
development docs, and everything else. 


* Hyperic Forums 
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=5&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

- Got a question about HQ? Ask it here. Chances are that someone will be 
able to answer it. In addition to the usual forum discussions, we also 
feature a Product Roadmap Forum:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=36&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]

as well as a Bug Reporting Forum:
[http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=588&lid=43&elq=1C1B7C207F2F43DD847FE9EDA60123D2]



	


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