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Atlassian Using Hyperic
I just saw that Atlassian, the provider of the essential community tools like Confluence wiki and JIRA ticket system, updated their wiki on the importance of monitoring the “lifeblood of your organization”.
They even outline the important monitoring tasks you need, and stress that it will help when dealing with their own world class support.
Monitoring involves a number of essential tasks, including those listed below:
- Monitoring log files.
- Checking for HTTP-availability and performance (e.g. by getting the same page every five minutes and displaying the time on a graph).
- Looking at many different parameters such as load, connections, IO, database-trends, and so on.
- Charting long-term trends.
- Keeping an access log of requests to the web server. This is vital, especially when requesting performance-related support from Atlassian.
They even pass on a screenshot of their Hyperic HQ deployment, which if you notice, they are hosted by Contegix, another Hyperic customer.
We agree 100% with Atlassian that it is critical to monitor their apps, which is why we’re also working with them to build application specific management plugins for Confluence and JIRA.
Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting
This phrase was used close to a dozen times by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com at his recent keynote at the MySQL conference. Werner used it to describe the day to day tasks of most web operations teams… tasks like racking boxes, configuring routers, and installing software. He mentioned ops teams at Amazon got to spending 70% of their time in this mode, and this was one of the main catalysts for developing infrastructure that brings us S3, SQS, EC2, and more.
Removing this “undifferentiated heavy lifting” (hereto referred as UHL) from your cycles is supposed to free operations to spend more time actually operating. As I was listening to the talk, I wondered how many folks believe there is some competitive advantage in UHL? Certainly choice of hardware, network architecture, data center setup all fall under UHL and can mean the difference between success at scale versus utter failure. Nonetheless, the argument is that you shouldn’t reinvent the wheel and should take advantage from those providers (Amazon in this case) who do the UHL for you, right? Well, a lot of people certainly think so based on how much press and use is being directed towards the cloud.
This begs the question: “If racking boxes, configuring OS’s and so forth is UHL today, what will be UHL tomorrow?” That question is material to companies in the systems management market because getting caught on the wrong side of UHL means your future is (as our favorite magic 8 ball would say) “Outlook Not So Good”.
Luckily, UHL today is mostly about the pain associated with hardware and network provisioning and configuration. These problems are bounded just enough to make it feasible for someone to simply delegate them to a cloud provider (as many already have). Of course, the implications to management vendors focused on managing UHL tasks are not pleasant if you buy the idea that most applications will move into this sort of an environment. If you buy this vision, then conceivably the future will require one GIANT Tivoli license for the One-Cloud-Provider-To-Rule-Them-All, right? Heh, not quite, but it’s fun to think about it that way!
The reality is that this trend is forcing both service providers as well as application developers to rethink their operation strategy. Providers want to be more like clouds, developers want to run inside them.
Why rethink their ops strategy? Because the stuff that sits above the UHL layer… the middleware, the databases, and most importantly, the code that makes up a given application present the most daunting challenges due to their complexity. This leaves a meaty management problem yet to be solved. One that has more to do with managing complex software stacks with components which might reside inside or outside of the cloud and with an ‘elasticity’ (to borrow another one of Werner’s terms) which demands equal agility in the management layer than what is found in the software stack.
This is where the next big wave of innovation will happen in the management space, and we’re excited to be a part of it. Come visit our booth at the Web 2.0 Expo this week, and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
MySQL Conference, Chapter 2
The team just finished our second successful MySQL Con. Many thanks to Marten & Zack and all the folks at O’Reilly that put on such a great conference.
This year definitely had a different feel, and of course that had a lot to do with Sun’s influence. It felt like it was almost a new event, a chapter 2 for MySQL, and its ecosystem of vendors and customers. There were more people - I don’t know exact numbers, but it felt appeared to be twice as packed. The exhibit hall was the same, but we took up a bit more space than last year and certainly there were much fancier booths - ours included! We even gave away multiple prizes this year - our fun 8-ball tshirts, and a couple remote control helicopters. Scott Baird and Mike Hogan were the lucky winners this year.
The one thing that hasn’t changed is our fit with the MySQL customers. This year we met several of our own customers and users face-to-face - including an entire legion of the Rackspace/Mosso guys. I had dozens of conversations with MySQL users managing the LAM-* stack, and showed them how Hyperic helps wrangle all the moving parts. Several of them were lined up when the exhibit hall opened the next day to tell me how their deployment went the night before! Very cool. We spend a lot of time talking to users - via the forums, email and phone - so to see their faces the next day after they deployed is a really cool experience.
And this experience wasn’t mine alone, Hyperic has grown quite a bit in the past year, almost tripling in size. So we had many more people from all departments hanging out on the floor and interacting live with users. Check out our own Mark Deadder, sales guru, wooing a small crowd while flashing his broken wing. (Minutes before, Mark fatally crashed the demo helicopter - perhaps if we could monitor it with HQ, the wing would still be attached!)
Thanks, MySQL - we’re looking forward to next year already!
The Open Source Free Lunch
Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to Marten Mickos deliver the opening keynote at the MySQL conference here in Santa Clara. As usual, Marten does an enviable job at delivering a presentation which talks about MySQL’s business, its new relationship with Sun Microsystems, and what this all has to do with Open Source.
I’ve been lucky to hear Marten speak at a number of events, and have found that one of the most consistent themes can be distilled down to this (which we at Hyperic fully subscribe to):
Build a great product, Empower your Users, Build a great business
He also reiterated the importance of the GPL as an essential element to drive empowerment of users. This lets them adopt products and participate while creating an opportunity for businesses to deliver value people are willing to pay for. A virtuous cycle, right? Sun seems to think so also (a billion dollars is not the type of money any company throws around lightly)
Ironically, as I was in the middle of writing this post, Slashdot’s editors let out this gem in a post claiming that MyS^H^H^HSun had “begun to close source MySQL”. Luckily, Marten was able to set the knee-jerk cable-news-inspired Slashdot post straight by again explaining to the readers that MySQL is a business which has been able to build a great free, open, GPL database by creating value they don’t necessarily give away. He’s candid about the fact that they are experimenting trying to arrive at the best business model that balances all the elements of the above equation. Obviously, it’s not easy and someone’s undoubtedly going to get upset with the result. Apparently some people on Slashdot think MySQL’s database is written by monks who are morally opposed to any compensation.
Why is this important? Well, because software doesn’t build itself. Another admirable (if slightly more outspoken) guy named Marc Fleury made a big point of that with JBoss’ “Professional Open Source” business model. Everyone got what they wanted: the community got a great, free, open J2EE app server, and JBoss got paid to hire more people to continue to build it.
Recently there were a few examples of failed companies in the management space which either directly used open source or had some connection to it in their businesses. Many wonder if the failure had something to do with open source, their choice of license, or the business model. Few (if any) looked at the more obvious part: the products offered by those companies. Just because something is free and open source, it doesnt mean people will flock to it. Without that first element of the equation, there’s no adoption and no opportunity to create value people will pay for. The result is a failed business. The formula for creating that value is still being developed and is different for every company. We’ve chosen one which so far has brought us much success, but might not work for others.
Much like MySQL, we’re eager to experiment with different ways in which we can deliver the best products to the largest audiences while delivering financial success for our employees and investors. Over the course of this year, you’ll see us continue to enhance and deliver more features and functionality to our open source platform, while continuing to enhance the value of our various subscription offerings. Also like MySQL, we’re eager to engage our community directly as we experiment and learn how to continue to build the best solution to managing large scale web infrastructure.
InfoWorld Open Source Roundtable: Javier Soltero
InfoWorld has published extensive interviews with a stable of Open Source thought leaders on the eve of the Open Source Business Conference. Dubbed The Open Source Roundtable, it delivers a series of interviews with 11 individuals on the vanguard of Open Source, including, I was pleased to learn, Javier Soltero. For the sake of completeness, the others include Matt Asay of Alfresco, Dave Rosenberg of MuleSource, Chris DiBona of Google, Bruce Perens, ESR, Sam Ramji of Microsoft, Mark Spencer of Digium, Bob Sutor of IBM, Zack Urlocker of MySQL, and Andy Astor of EnterpriseDB.
I’m going to say this now - Javier deserves a ton of credit for incorporating community into Hyperic very early on. How many other CEO’s can say that one of their earliest hires was the Open Source community guy? He recognized from the beginning that a key to Hyperic’s success was our community. Speaking of which, look for some very interesting announcements coming down the pipe later this week :)
A tale of two deals
What an incredible start to an otherwise unremarkable, mid-January day!
First, the huge news about MySQL being acquired by Sun Microsystems… then the news about BEA being acquired by Oracle. The first deal is significant given the ‘imminent’ IPO that was expected by MySQL later this year. The second is significant if only because of the amount of bickering between BEA’s management team, Oracle, and their respective shareholders.
Perhaps the most revealing thing about both of these huge transactions is how they are presented on their websites! MySQL has the Sun deal front and center (as one would expect). BEA’s website has the same SOA-logic-gene-liquid thing they’ve been talking about for months, along with the now extremely overused (and BLUE!) ink floating on air image that’s part of their “Think Liquid” campaign. Where’s the blurb about the $8 BILLION acquisition of its soul by Oracle? Well, it’s in small print… down on the left hand corner of the site. Look closely! You’d think that for that amount of money, Oracle would have demanded a big Oracle Logo smack in the middle of the main page.
Makes you wonder how excited those guys are about joining the Oracle machine…
On a more positive note, Sun’s comments about MySQL continue to validate the importance of open source, as well as the unique role that MySQL plays in large scale web infrastructure.
From Jonathan’s Blog:
Both sets of customers confirmed what we’ve known for years - that MySQL is by far the most popular platform on which modern developers are creating network services. From Facebook, Google and Sina.com to banks and telecommunications companies, architects looking for performance, productivity and innovation have turned to MySQL.
This serves as a great example of why we here at Hyperic are focused on helping solve the ops challenges of large web applications, most of which use MySQL. Hearing Sun talk about MySQL in these terms rather than simply saying it’s the cheap/free database that you can use instead of Oracle is refreshing, and a great validation of a market that will continue to demand open, innovative solutions that arent simply rehashes of old technology delivered under a lower cost business model.
The XenSource Acquisition & the Debate on the Death of Open Source or the Victory?
Huge news today. Citrix has agreed to acquire XenSource for a whopping $500 Million dollars. In the wake of this news, I figured I?d offer some commentary and a perspective.
First, as a sister investment company (XenSource and Hyperic are backed by Accel Partners and share Larry Augustin as a board member), I am excited for them and their new prospects. They’ve done an outstanding job of going pedal-to-the-metal and delivering a stand-out product and an exceptional valuation to their employees and investors. I wish them all the best with the new opportunities in this next chapter of growth. XenSource has ambitious plans and a ripe market opportunity, and their newly minted relationship with Citrix will ideally enable it to compete even more effectively in this emerging market.
As expected, this has caused all kinds of conversation and speculation on the impact this has on open source companies in general, including ours. The blogosphere seems full of speculation on open source vendors being squashed by proprietary vendors, are they ?selling-out?, or worse, is this the only expected outcome for open source companies? No on all counts.
In his blog on CNET, my good friend Matt Asay references a recent comment made by Tim O’Reilly:
I will predict that virtually every open source company (including Red Hat) will eventually be acquired by a big proprietary software company.
In fairness, Tim did not call this out in response to XenSource but well before it. As Matt explains:
Tim believes that open source, at least as defined by open-source licensing, has a short shelf life that will be consumed by Web 2.0 (i.e., Web companies hijacking open-source software to deliver proprietary Web services) or by traditional proprietary software vendors.
In other words, why don’t I just give up, sell out, and go home? I guess I would if I thought that Tim were right. He’s not, not in this instance.
I agree. Open source is a hot-bed for technology innovation. It’s prediliction for fast customer adoption, product cycles measured in months (not years), and community collaboration breeds high growth. Customers are empowered to know how to solve their problems faster. They like it. In any market where innovation is fed and adoption grows, an acquisition is a serious possibility. That said, no CEO I know in open source or otherwise sets out to sell out. Venture investors worth doing business with smell this a mile away, and would never back a company that?s designed to be flipped. They back entrepreneurs that have an idea and a purpose and are driven to take it as far and as wide as they can. The idea is to grow as much as you can and have as many options as you want - including acquiring companies yourself.
Open source companies are growing in numbers and in size. As they grow, they naturally have more options today than they did a year ago. We’re seeing an increasing number of acquisitions - both proprietary backed and some open source backed - but we will soon see an increasing number of IPOs too. MySQL (another Benchmark sister company) is hopefully setting an example for others to follow. What is most interesting though is that proprietary companies are feeling the pressure to engage and can no longer dismiss the efforts of OSS companies as science experiments. The quick win is to buy into open source, the longer road is to embrace it and repackage/relicense existing code under open source licenses and build a community. By and large, we’re seeing even more of the latter - more companies trying to evolve into a faster paced, more modern business model. And open source is a part, but not all of it.
So no, I do not think this marks another open source company going dark. I think it affirms that open source will be a strategy the majority will adopt to stay relevant and appealing to customers. The fact that VMWare had a tremendously successful IPO also proves that open source is not the only way one can drive a huge outcome for a software company. As I’ve stated repeatedly: innovation and customer success are the proof points that make all the difference, open source is a business strategy option that can speed that success.
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.
Open Source Bake-offs, and Trade-offs
NetworkWorld?s Barry Nance just posted his bakeoff of open source management tools. This test focused on the open source products available from 3 vendors, Hyperic, Zenoss and Groundwork. The test was based on functionality alone, and did not consider other specialized topics such as scalability, setup or any special management of specific technologies. In Barry?s words:
We tested each product’s ability to discover, manage, administer, monitor, report on, diagnose, troubleshoot, reset, reconfigure and secure our network devices, applications, servers and clients.
Barry?s test scored Hyperic?s Open Source software a 3.6 on a scale of 5, and in the middle of the other two vendors. (Lowest a 3.1, highest a 4). We didn?t win the clear choice award, but we?re actually very proud of this review! Why? Well, Barry spent some time with us yesterday and talked about the two things he thought we needed to succeed - group alerting and automatic control actions. When we discussed that these were in the enterprise version, he suggested we take our Enterprise software to compete in the commercial arena. (Which we will, providing the editor gives us the chance!)
Knowing this, and knowing we have even more packed into the Enterprise Extensions we?re very happy with this review. But it does beg the question ? if those features make the functionality more complete, then why are they not open source? Don?t we want to win every bake-off contest?
We?re not interested in trading off between bake-off contests and a solid business plan that has enabled us to win in the market, and the market to win with us. See, we designed HQ to be the easiest to install, fastest time-to-value, and functionally complete software on the market today. Both our open source and our enterprise subscription offerings clearly illustrate that. Our users, customers, and partners agree. In fact, a lot of commercial open source projects out there make money on manageability of their systems, like JBoss, MySQL and MuleSource who all use Hyperic to provide value to their users.
So we are not bummed we didn?t win. It?s our plan to be an innovative, focused open source software provider for systems management that provides the absolute best-in-class software for the demanding scale and complexity of online services businesses. Our open source users can get a complete systems and application management solution up and running quickly ? and when they get to an appropriate level of scale (usually in excess of 100 machines), it actually becomes more cost effective to engage us for our subscription offering which is tailored specifically for their needs and provides the fastest time to value in the business. And even with the paid-for software, it?s still the most cost effective, comprehensive, and downright sexy software they can own in this space. Period. And being cost-effective for our customers means that we get paid, and ensures our open source?s projects longevity and ensuring the advancement and sophistication of the software for our customers. It?s a fundamental principle of our business plan which ensures that everyone in the Hyperic ecosystem is a winner. Go ask our ever-growing community of users and customers if you’re curious.
Charles Lee on Hibernate and MySQL (theserverside.com)
Charles Lee posted an article on theserverside.com on the flexibility afforded us by our migration to Hibernate. In our case, it was the first step towards MySQL compatibility, and we wonder how many other enterprise developers have used it for similar purposes. Or course, the overall benefits of Hibernate go far beyond MySQL compatibility, but that’s the first obvious use case. Read the article for more detail on our migration, and be sure to take a look at his upcoming talk at the MySQL conference in Santa Clara on April 25.
December Newsletter is Out
Hot on the heels of the coverage of our newly-announced HQ for VMware release as well as our appearance at USENIX LISA, we sent out our latest newsletter yesterday. In addition to the above, read about how we wowed ‘em at LISA, gave away a Nintendo Wii, and a news follow-up of our MySQL announcement last month.
Look for more news next week about a certain beta we’ve been itching to release.
MySQL AB Licenses Hyperic IT Management Technology
Hyperic’s SIGAR Cross-Platform API to be Integrated into MySQL’s new Monitoring & Advisory Service
SAN FRANCISCO - October 30, 2006 - Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open-source IT management, today announced a technology license agreement with MySQL AB, the developer of the world?s most popular open source database. Under terms of the agreement, Hyperic’s SIGAR (System Information Gathering and Reporter) API is being incorporated into the new monitoring and advisory component of the recently-announced MySQL Enterprise subscription offering.
Hyperic’s cross-platform SIGAR API enables MySQL Enterprise to obtain low-level operating system information across a variety of different platforms ? through a single interface. This serves as one important data point for monitoring and managing the health of MySQL database servers. MySQL Enterprise then acts as a “Virtual DBA”, giving IT departments the ability to understand and solve potential problems before they impact critical business applications.
“Our goal with MySQL Enterprise is to make the development, deployment and administration of MySQL servers as easy as possible,” said Zack Urlocker, MySQL AB’s executive vice president of products. “Hyperic’s SIGAR API technology allows us to provide our customers with valuable data for managing their IT systems ? no matter what heterogeneous combination of hardware and software they are using.”
Through the Hyperic SIGAR API, MySQL Enterprise can present database administrators with operating system-level data, such as:
- System memory, swap, cpu usage load average, uptime, and logins
- Per-process memory, cpu consumption, credential info, state, arguments, environment, and open files
- File system detection and metrics
- Network interface detection, configuration info and metrics
“We are very pleased that MySQL has selected Hyperic’s open source SIGAR technology to help make MySQL database applications easier and more affordable to manage,” said Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. “By selecting Hyperic, MySQL enhances its ability to support its customers’ multi-platform networks. With this partnership agreement, Hyperic management technology will become the most widely-deployed open source management platform in the industry. We look forward to working with other vendors in the future.”
The SIGAR API is an integral part of Hyperic HQ, the industry’s most comprehensive product to allow users to manage any mixture of software stacks in production?whether it’s a J2EE-based stack, an open source LAMP stack, a closed source stack or, a hybrid. SIGAR makes Mix and Match Stack Management a reality.
Hyperic’s multi-platform approach enables its partners to incorporate management across the widest range of environments, including commercial and open source. In addition to MySQL AB, the company has licensing agreements with JBOSS.
For more information about Hyperic SIGAR, visit: sigar.hyperic.com.
About Hyperic Inc.
Hyperic (www.hyperic.com) is the open source IT management platform. Hyperic provides systems administrators with IT management software they don?t have to manage. It is the only open source IT management solution that discovers, monitors, analyzes and controls all open source and commercial enterprise IT assets from a single unified interface. With its consistent, extensible and painless management from installation on, Hyperic?s HQ Management Platform has been adopted by enterprises of all sizes, including Hi5 Networks, Ogilvy & Mather, eHarmony.com, and more. Founded in 2004, Hyperic is a private company funded by Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners and is headquartered in San Francisco
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Hyperic Gives ISVs Enterprise-Class IT Management Capability with New OEM Partner Program
JBoss, MySQL first to integrate Hyperic technology into their offerings
SAN FRANCISCO - October 30, 2006 - Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open-source IT management, today announced a partner program that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to add enterprise-class, multi-platform IT management capabilities to their products. MySQL and JBoss are among the first companies to join the Hyperic Embedded Management program and distribute the Hyperic HQ management platform as part of their open-source offerings.
The Hyperic Embedded Management program makes it easy for software vendors to enhance their offerings with the addition of enterprise-class management functionality. Hyperic’s management software uses a single interface to obtain system data across virtually any platform. This gives customers the ability to integrate HQ into their existing - and future - mixed-stack environments and discover and fix potential problems before they can impact critical business functions.
Hyperic’s cross-platform SIGAR API enables MySQL Enterprise to obtain low-level operating system information across a variety of different platforms ? through a single interface. This serves as one important data point for monitoring and managing the health of MySQL database servers. MySQL Enterprise then acts as a “Virtual DBA”, giving IT departments the ability to understand and solve potential problems before they impact critical business applications.
“Adding the functionality of Hyperic HQ into open source infrastructure products like MySQL and JBoss gives their customers a more complete, open source solution,” said Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. “They get the additional benefits of Hyperic’s enterprise-class IT management platform, making it easy for users to monitor and manage all IT operations from a single portal.”
Commercial ISVs can begin evaluating the capabilities of Hyperic HQ management platform by downloading the open source HQ at www.hyperic.com/downloads/. The Hyperic program also provides partners with joint sales and marketing opportunities, and more.
In addition to its embedded partners, Hyperic’s partner ecosystem includes XenSource and EnterpriseDB, among others.
Hyperic HQ is the industry’s most comprehensive offering for managing any type of software stack?whether it’s an open source LAMP stack, a closed source stack, or a hybrid. Unlike traditional management solutions, Hyperic HQ monitors virtually all kinds of operating systems, web servers, app servers and database servers, and can be extended to monitor most types of applications?both at a technical and business level.
About Hyperic Inc.
Hyperic (www.hyperic.com), The Open Source IT Management Platform, provides systems administrators with IT management software they don’t have to manage. Hyperic is the only open source IT management solution that provides “mix and match” stack management by discovering, monitoring, analyzing and controlling all open source and commercial enterprise IT assets from a unified Web interface. With the industry’s fastest time-to-deployment, and extensible management, Hyperic’s HQ Management Platform has been adopted by enterprises of all sizes, including Hi5 Networks, Ogilvy & Mather, eHarmony.com, and more. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners.
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