SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - June 18, 2007) - Hyperic Inc., the leader in
multi-platform, open source systems management, today announced that hi5
(
www.hi5.com), the second largest social network in the world, has deployed
Hyperic HQ 3.0 to manage and monitor its fast-growing IT infrastructure.
hi5 is a global social networking site where more than 60 million members
stay in touch with friends, meet new people, create and explore content.
Since launching in 2004, the company has become one of the fastest growing
social networks, and the 10th most highly-trafficked website in the world*.
With 4.5 million unique visitors and 200 million page views per day,
constant uptime and high performance are critical for hi5's success.
In early 2006, as hi5's popularity skyrocketed, the company's IT
administrators struggled to keep up as they scaled the site to support
thousands of new users each day. The potential for downtime and performance
issues grew alongside IT complexity. The company turned to Hyperic to get
ahead of problems before they occurred and improve system performance and
availability.
"With our ad-based business model, even small performance issues can create
a significant financial impact. Several of the management solutions we
looked at were all the same, and we needed something customizable that
could address our specific IT needs," said hi5 CTO, Akash Garg. "Hyperic
was the standout. It had all the features we needed to more effectively
manage our IT resources, minimize downtime and improve overall IT system
performance."
The hi5 IT environment is heterogeneous and highly customized. It includes
dozens of terabytes of customer data and media files stored across an array
of PostgreSQL databases and an EXT3 file system. The Java-based hi5
application runs on hundreds of Resin application servers and Apache web
servers, most of which run SuSE Linux. Across this heterogeneous
environment, Hyperic manages over 9000 distinct resources and collects more
than 11,000 management metrics per minute.
"As one of the fastest growing sites on the Web, hi5 is among a new breed
of online services companies presenting entirely new management problems to
the industry," said Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. "Hyperic was purpose-built
to help companies like hi5 scale from one to 100 million users without
stressing their systems -- or their systems administrators."
Prior to Hyperic, Hi5 had been using a combination of Big Brother and
Nagios to monitor its systems. These products lacked the historical
perspective hi5 needed, and without the ability to trend performance, hi5
couldn't keep pace and risked costly outages.
Immediately upon deployment, Hyperic HQ generated results:
-- Hyperic HQ monitored both Resin and PostgreSQL natively - two key
technologies for hi5 that Big Brother did not recognize.
-- Using Hyperic, hi5's IT team could watch performance heuristics over
time and use this information to pinpoint the genesis of a problem.
-- Hyperic's extensible architecture helped the hi5 team to better manage
performance by enabling it to correlate performance with spikes in user
traffic as well as things like file downloads of the hottest new tunes or
raciest new video.
Since deploying Hyperic, hi5's infrastructure has tripled in size due to
increased popularity and additional functionality. The company plans to
continue working with Hyperic to help it keep pace with this accelerating
growth.
About Hyperic HQ
Hyperic's flagship product, Hyperic HQ, is the industry's only systems
management software designed for the complex, always-on, always-evolving
data centers that power today's online businesses like hi5. Characterized
by highly tailored and seamless web-based user experiences with rigorous
uptime requirements, online service providers typically deploy emerging
technologies in highly customized environments. Hyperic HQ provides
cross-stack visibility and management for technology in production, whether
it's open source, commercial, or a hybrid. As a result, whether internally
or externally focused, IT providers can centrally manage the fast-moving
technologies of the demanding online services market -- effectively
avoiding costly downtime and streamlining staffing needs. For more
information about Hyperic HQ, visit:
http://www.hyperic.com/products/hq_oss.html
About Hyperic Inc.
Hyperic (
www.hyperic.com), provides the only open source
systems management software
purpose-built for the fast-moving online services market. 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.
Hyperic's technology-neutral approach supports innovation by enabling
manageability across technologies in the market today as well as those of
tomorrow. Hyperic's software manages online services businesses of all
sizes, including hi5 Networks, eHarmony.com, MyNewPlace.com and more.
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is
a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.
*According to Alexa
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