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Hyperic Announces MySQL Performance Study Results
First Enterprise Application to Prove MySQL Supports Immense Scale
JAVAONE?San Francisco, Calif. - News Release:
- Today at JavaOne, Hyperic (Booth #1028), announced the results of a large scale performance study on Hyperic using Sun Microsystems? MySQL database as a backend.
- Results showed Hyperic monitoring upwards of 2.3 million metric transactions per minute.
- These results definitively prove that MySQL and Hyperic can be a compelling option for even the most demanding enterprise and web applications.
- Hyperic customer CNET was part of large-scale beta testing of MySQL on Hyperic.
About the tests:
- The tests simulated a large-scale deployment monitoring 32,000 services across 675 discreet managed platforms.
- There were two primary tests?designed to determine the actual and maximum loads amount of metrics per minute that Hyperic is capable of running on MySQL.
- In the Actual Load test, Hyperic HQ averaged 220,000 metrics per minute, with minimal server load for either Hyperic HQ or MySQL.
- In the Maximum Load test, Hyperic HQ achieved a record 2.3 million metrics per minute, with constraints on the Hyperic Server and only moderate load on MySQL.
- The test setup used standard hardware that would typically be used to run Hyperic HQ with MySQL
- The Hyperic HQ Server ran on a 2 Quad Core, 2GHz machine with 16 GB of RAM, 4 GB of Heap and a NIC with a 1 GB interconnect between HQ and MySQL
- The MySQL Database Server ran on a 2 Quad Core, 1596 MHz machine with 8 GB of RAM, 4.5 GB InnoDB buffer pool, 16 thread concurrency, O_DSYNC flush method, and RAID-1 146G SAS 3G HardDrives
Supporting Quotes:
“For growing web-driven companies, scaling their web applications is critical to their business. Traffic is unpredictable and can grow exponentially. Operations teams must not only monitor every component of their application stack, but quickly respond if things go wrong. These performance results prove that the combination of Hyperic and MySQL is a good fit for companies that need a massively scalable web infrastructure.? — Paul Melmon, senior vice president of engineering at Hyperic
?MySQL has been designed and optimized to handle the fast-growth and high-traffic requirements of today?s modern online applications. As Hyperic is also targeting this same Web audience, there is a natural synergy between our products. MySQL and Hyperic address enterprise-level needs for performance, scalability, availability and reliability.? –Zack Urlocker, vice president of products, Sun Microsystems Database Group
“Support for MySQL has proven to be a major win for Hyperic customers by offering a scalable, enterprise class data store with the array of features they demand to handle reliable backup, archive, and disaster recovery of the highly valuable data Hyperic HQ captures. Since the official release in late January, we’ve had about a quarter of our Enterprise customers either migrate or express interest in migrating to MySQL as a database backend.” –Marty Messer, director of customer success at Hyperic
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Microsoft Ex-Pats Developing Open Source Software Outside of Redmond
It seems that open source maven, Matt Asay along with well-known Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley have come to the conclusion that Microsoft doesn’t need open source. Asay contends that Microsoft’s open source activity has more to do with regulators than best practices and user collaboration.
Microsoft’s open-source charade is not about customers. It’s about regulators. Until Microsoft can convince U.S. and European regulators that its market power is not as bad as it once was, the company will need to hide behind expressions of openness.
Hence, Microsoft “opens” up its protocols (i.e., lets everyone read but not touch…without forking over cash). It inks “open” interoperability agreements with Novell and others, which actually do nothing more than bind otherwise open-source success to Microsoft’s proprietary technology. Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith acknowledges the shift, or lack thereof:
“It is (a change in philosophy) in some significant ways and yet it has also other aspects that are a continuation and we’re probably thinking a little bit about both pieces,” Smith said, explaining Microsoft’s twin thrusts of promoting intellectual property rights by encouraging interoperability among various software platforms.Business as usual. Just under the openness guise.
I suspect that’s a reasonable assumption. Though the folks working in open source software from Microsoft like Sam Ramji seem pretty sincere. With Bill Gates retiring and Microsoft’s initiatives on open source wouldn’t it be a sardonic turn of events for open source spread like a virus inside the walls of Redmond (especially since that’s how detractors likes to describe open source software).
There are a number of ventures run by ex-Microsofties who are seeing success. Maybe the the question real question is, “How far does the apple fall from the tree?”
Redmond Refugees Driving Open Source
Last week Black Duck Software run by a former Microsoft employee, Doug Levin, acquired Koders an open source repository and search engine. Likewise Software, the maker of an open source unified authentication product was started by some ex-Microsoft employees. Starting as a proprietary software maker they eventually moved to a open source development model and have gotten involved with the popular open source Samba project. Finally, MindTouch an open source wiki developer is run by ex-Microsoft employees and has seen great success with their open source project. All the companies mentioned above are run by ex-Micrsoft employees and all seem to be having decent success in open source.
Deki Wiki and Application Collaboration
One of my favorite open source projects is Deki Wiki by MindTouch. The product solves many of the same problems as Microsoft Sharepoint. More so than Sharepoint, DekiWiki extends its collaboration beyond people to the application layer. Rather than striving to be an all-in-one solution Deki Wiki boasts a robust web services API that allows for integration between other applications. Already Deki Wiki supports authentication via LDAP and Active Directory as well as authentication systems from popular open source content management systems like Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla!.
Today was the release of MIndTouch’s v8.05 (codenamed Jay Cooke) which was largely driven by requirements from the Mozilla Foundation (who will be relaunching their developer community using Deki Wiki). I like to see open source projects use open source software when they get the chance. Sometimes I think we do that because of solidarity among free software developers. However, in the case of Deki Wiki I think that it’s safe to say that Deki Wiki is not only open source, but also best of breed. I have raved about Deki Wiki before but this release has some very cool new features. Through web services you can enable real time chat, embed Google spreadsheets, query databases, and include interactive maps from Google and Windows Live.
One feature that really caught my eye was the new polygot feature that give you the ability to provide language support at the page and user level. I suspect this feature is especially useful to companies who want to easily provide content in a number of different languages. It’s also a very nice platform for collaborative content localization.
Another variation on the theme of application interactivity, Deki Wiki v8.05 now supports, OpenSearch. OpenSearch is a collection of simple open formats for sharing search results originally developed by Amazon and A9. Beyond these features MindTouch’s newest version includes an improved file uploader and content transforms to allow users to specify selections of text for syntax highlighting, SVG, LaTex and graphs. All and all a big step forward.
Summary
The jury is out on how significant Microsoft’s open source ambitions will affect their future plans. Many people are skeptical for the obvious reasons. In the meantime I think their is a lot of cool technology being created by these Redmond Refugees.
Future Open Source Superstars
This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free software entrepreneurs. The opening keynote was delivered by Red Hat’s freshly minted CEO Jim Whitehurst who gave a very modest speech noting that while Red Hat has been a leading open source company they have not necessarily been an open source leader. Whitehurst’s presentation lacked anything especially insightful or noteworthy and he has the advantage of being the new guy so he’s off the hook for anything that might have happened before he took the job.
What is apparent Red Hat’s no longer exciting. They’ve crossed over to respectable elder statesman of open source. The action is among the new batch of up-and-coming open source software companies who are not yet venture backed but are developing interesting technologies and services. Here are some of the companies that may well be the new open source superstars.
Appcelerator
Open Source Project: Appcelerator, rich internet application platform
Appcelerator is a fully integrated platform that enables rich internet applications via a services oriented architecture. Breezing past the the buzzwords and at the risk of the trivializing what they do, Appcelerator enables the building of widgets that can be embedded in web pages. If you look at FaceBook, the feature that is making the popular social networking platform interesting is the abundance of third party applications. With JBoss alumni Rob Beardon and Ben Sabrin on board along with Larry Augustin and Marc Fleury as advisors I think the Appcelerator team could have a breakout company some day.
Bitrock
Open Source Project: Bitnami, open source installers
One of the hardest things for new software users to do is install software especially for those users moving from Windows or Mac to Linux. RPMs and .debs are a whole new kettle of fish especially if you are used to point and click installers. Bitrock makes the installation for applications that easy for open source software (and proprietary software too). Bitrock installers are used by OSS heavyweights, SugarCRM and MySQL as well as many others. You can download installers from their project site Bitnami too. Bitrock is getting ready to launch some additional features that should apply to both software vendors and end-users who want updates.
Enomaly
Open Source Project: Enomalism is a web-based elastic computing platform
Enomaly is a company who has paid their bills and generated profits from consulting. However, they have a real opportunity to become a product company in the virtualization management space. Enomaly’s web-based virtualization management product, Enomalism, can manage virtual machines across VMware, Xen, and Amazon EC2 seamlessly. Everyone’s on board with virtualization these days and VMware is the obvious leader with Citrix Xen a distant second and companies like Virtual Iron and Sun’s VirtualDeskop way in the distance. The opportunity for new companies is for the tools to manage virtualization especially ones that are agnostic and can bridge the most popular technologies. That’s why I think Enomaly’s open source Enomalism has real promise and could someday be a very cool breakout technology. With companies like BladeLogic being snapped up by BMC for $800 million that would make me look long and hard at Enomaly. I wish Reuven, George, and the gang the best of luck.
LoopFuse
Open Source Project: LoopFuse Oneview, marketing and sales automation
As more business gets done on the web, understanding what happens on the web is becoming more critical. LoopFuse provides tools to give insight into how people travel through your website and eventually engage companies and eventually become customers. Given the alternatives like sales automation leader Eloqua built on Microsoft technology it seems to me that LoopFuse is a more compatible and extensible with the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) dominated web.
Their open source Oneview product is worth looking at especially given the expensive proprietary and the low-end feature poor alternatives. Once again LoopFuse founders Roy Russo and Tom Elrod are JBoss alumni who understand how to grow and market an open source business as well. Top that with advisors Rob Bearden and Matt Asay and I suspect they will have a homerun success on their hands.
[I even put my money where my mouth is here and was one of the first LoopFuse customers]
Mindtouch
Open Source Project: Deki Wiki, wiki and application platform
I have written about MindTouch before and I really think they do some interesting things like offering a standard WYSWIG editor and providing a migration path from MediaWiki. Above that I think the team there is smart and have fun and energy. For a full write-up read the article from earlier this month.
Ringside Networks
Open Source Project: Ringside social application server.
What drove it home for me was talking to JBoss alumnus and RingSide co-founder Bob Bickel telling me about his favorite FaceBook widget, Runlicious. He describes the problem of having a favorite application that is confined to a single platform rather than being deployed across all your favorite websites. Ringside Social Application Server is an open source platform that enables website owners to build and deploy social applications are applications that operate with existing website content and business applications while seamlessly integrating with social networks.
Past Performance, Future Success
Open source gets a lot of flack for not having the open source billionaires club that exists in commercial proprietary software. I think what will be telling thing in the future will be be the number of profitable open source companies and their success rate relative to proprietary companies launched since 1990. I suspect that these companies will illustrate that this new method of developing applications isn’t about building the next Oracle’s and Microsoft’s but about building profitable, sustainable companies without the need for huge amounts of capital.
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Open Source Valuations, Competition, Downloads, and Profitability
And on goes my fascination with open source companies and their valuations…
I was reading Stephen O’Grady’s commentary on open source companies and their valuations
prompted by the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun for $1 billion. He quotes Jeff Gould who logically questions whether Sun can make the acquisition pay-off.
Stephen also quotes a piece from Knowledge@Wharton on the myth of market share.
It is a common practice of many companies to focus their attention on grabbing market share from their competitors. But such efforts can actually be detrimental to the firm’s profitability, according to Wharton marketing professor J. Scott Armstrong.
Another logical and thoughtful piece by much smarter people than I. Part of their support was came from analyzing companies that operating in a pre-Internet market. These companies didn’t benefit from the ability to market and distribute their products over the Internet: GE, Dupont, Union Carbide, and Alcoa. They didn’t have digital products an open source licensing and blocking strategy either. The end result of profitability is still valid but I believe the route to profitability may be different for open source companies.
Hyperic Releases Alfresco Plugin
Released today, administrators of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System now have access to a fully supported, enterprise-ready systems management solution with Hyperic HQ for Alfresco. The new Hyperic HQ plugin instantly enables HQ and Alfresco administrators to take full advantage of Hyperic?s powerful management capabilities, including auto-discovery, monitoring, complex alerting and remediation. With today’s release of the Hyperic HQ for Alfresco plugin, Hyperic HQ becomes the only monitoring system to natively support Alfresco deployments on every platform and architecture.
Enterprise Content Management ensures the quick and reliable delivery, accessibility and long-term control of the most important information assets in an enterprise. These all require a strong, reliable architecture,? said John Newton, CTO and co-founder of Alfresco Software Inc. ?Hyperic HQ?s plug in for Alfresco provides a powerful new solution to monitor Alfresco in context with all their web infrastructure components, ensuring the delivery of the right message at the right time as well as the right levels of service and availability for their web sites.?
This latest plugin reflects a concerted effort from Hyperic engineering to provide the most aggressive and expansive native product support for leading technologies in the market today. The Hyperic HQ for Alfresco plugin represents the 14th new technology managed for Hyperic in less than 60 days.
“Hyperic is committed to delivering the most complete out-of-the-box technology support for the always-on, fast moving online services businesses,” said Doug MacEachern, CTO and co-founder of Hyperic. “Enterprise content management represents a critical component to delivering a rich user experience for any online business and an obvious next step for us to extend our complete support. We?re very pleased to extend the Alfresco users the full management and monitoring support of Hyperic HQ to ensure the overall health and availability of their web infrastructure.?
About the plugin
The new plugin monitors the health and performance of every published performance statistic for Alfresco and its infrastructure components. For a full list of management metrics see the Alfresco page on the HyperFORGE. The plugin allows Hyperic HQ to automatically discover the availability of the complete set of Alfresco components, including the web server, database backend, application server, and indexing services.
In addition to the Alfresco plugin, a Sendmail plugin was added to the HyperFORGE. See the HyperFORGE Sendmail page for further details.
Availability
The Hyperic HQ plugin for Alfresco and Sendmail are available today and are supported for all current Hyperic 3.0 releases. The plugins, along with all other supported and user contributed plugins, are available on Hyperic?s HyperFORGE.
Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra is now available
Beginning today, administrators of Zimbra Collaboration Suite, the leader in open source, next-generation email and collaboration software, now have a fully supported, enterprise-ready solution for managing their complex, mission critical environments with the general availability of Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra. The plugin made available by Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, will allow Zimbra customers to easily monitor and manage the performance of their open source messaging and collaboration suite along with all other layers of their infrastructure.
Hyperic’s software provides unprecedented cross-stack visibility and helps enterprises to pinpoint, correct and prevent problems at every layer ? including hardware, networks, virtualization, middleware and applications. The new Hyperic HQ plugin instantly enables system administrators of Zimbra to take full advantage of Hyperic?s powerful management capabilities, including auto-discovery, monitoring, complex alerting and remediation.
“Email and collaboration are core components of running a business and we know that our customers are focused on providing the highest levels of availability for their messaging solution,? said Scott Dietzen, President and CTO of Zimbra. ?Hyperic HQ’s plug in for Zimbra provides a integrated solution to monitor Zimbra and to enable our customers to achieve a higher level of stability.”
“Hyperic is set on providing the most complete out-of-the-box technology support for the always-on, fast moving online services businesses,” said Doug MacEachern, CTO and co-founder of Hyperic. ?Email and collaboration play a pivotal role for these types of businesses to fluidly work together across geographies, teams, and topics. Now with the extra support from Hyperic HQ, Zimbra users can manage and monitor the overall health of all Zimbra deployments along with the rest of their IT systems infrastructure.?
About the plugin
The new plugin monitors the health and performance of every published performance statistic for Zimbra and its infrastructure components. For a full list of management metrics see the Zimbra wiki. The plugin allows Hyperic HQ to automatically discover the availability of the complete set of Zimbra daemons including: Zimbra Tomcat, Zimbra Logger MySQL, Zimbra MySQL, Zimbra OpenLDAP, Zimbra Cyrus SASL, Zimbra ClamAV, Zimbra Apache Httpd, Zimbra Postfix, Zimbra AMaViS, Zimbra Log Watch, Zimbra Swatch, and Zimbra MTA Config. Hyperic also supports full scale management of MySQL, Apache, Tomcat and OpenLDAP, other technologies used by Zimbra.
In addition to the Zimbra plugin, new OpenLDAP and Vyatta plugins were added to the HyperFORGE. Vyatta issued a press release this morning describing the Vyatta plugin and Hyperic?s partnership with Vyatta. For more information on the Vyatta plugin and relationship see the press release.
Availability
The Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra, OpenLDAP and Vyatta are available today and are supported for all current Hyperic 3.0 releases. The plugins, along with all other supported and user contributed plugins, are available on Hyperic’s HyperFORGE.
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