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SpringSource springs for Hyperic


By Alex Handy
May 4, 2009 — 
In a move that spreads the company's reach further into the development life cycle, SpringSource this morning acquired open-source systems monitoring company Hyperic.

SpringSource is the company founded by Rod Johnson and built around the popular Java framework, Spring. Hyperic was founded by four men, including Doug MacEachern, the creator of Mod Perl, an Apache module that adds Perl support to the popular Web server. Perl is commonly used by developers to write server monitoring applications.

Hyperic has grown in popularity in the five years since it was created, and it has won numerous accolades from analyst firms, such as Gartner, which named it a "company to watch in 2009." At the heart of Hyperic is Hyperic HQ, a distributed Java application that discovers, analyzes and monitors systems and network components in a data center. The HQ product can be administered through a Web-based interface, allowing IT operators to monitor networks from anywhere in the world.

“The acquisition of Hyperic enables SpringSource to provide a complete, proven suite of lean application infrastructure software products that enable enterprises to accelerate the build, run and manage application life cycle within the data center, virtual or cloud computing environments,” said Johnson, also SpringSource's CEO.

Javier Soltero, formerly CEO of Hyperic, will now take the role of CTO of management products at SpringSource. “This is the marriage of two companies that share a common vision for the future of enterprise solutions and the application life cycle,” said Soltero.

“SpringSource is the default choice for many developers and IT architects creating Java applications, and Hyperic is the default choice for many IT operations professionals that need to manage those applications. Managing enterprise Java requires visibility up and down the stack and across a company’s network and data center, including virtualization and cloud computing environments. The divide that separates development from IT operations has just become a lot smaller.”

The implications of this acquisition do indeed touch the clouds of the future. Chris Haddad, vice president of application platform and data management strategies for Burton Group, has been researching the future of clouds, where application life-cycle management takes on new responsibilities around platform and application environment management.

He said of this acquisition: "The combination of SpringSource and Hyperic will address the disconnect that frequently exists between application development and runtime management. The disconnect impedes development teams' ability to unify and accelerate the application development life cycle.”


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