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 – 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 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 and MuleSource (also announced today).

For more information about Hyperic SIGAR, visit: http://sigar.hyperic.com

About Hyperic Inc.

Hyperic 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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