Who: Javier Soltero, co-founder and CEO of Hyperic, will lead a strategic session at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com). Hyperic is the leading provider of web application performance monitoring software for the datacenter and the cloud. The company recently launched the groundbreaking CloudStatus service, which is the first monitoring and management tool that provides an independent view of the health and performance of leading cloud services providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Google Application Engine. Soltero previously was chief architect at Covalent Technologies, where he led the design and implementation of multiple enterprise products, including the configuration management product for Apache and the Covalent Application Manager -- now Hyperic's flagship product Hyperic HQ. What: The session will focus on the question of maintaining a cloud's availability, security and reliability. Soltero will tackle a number of issues, including: * The emergence of web operations as a discipline * How cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating the importance of web operations * What tools are available to help better manage cloud environments * Tools to help better manage cloud environments and keep the cloud scalable, available and disposable, without huge changes in infrastructure and operations This session is one of a series at the event led by prominent industry figures, designed to help IT professionals make informed decisions about the cloud, how to deploy and operate cloud-focused software, its development and purchase. When: 2:50-3:35pm, November 20, 2008About Hyperic, Inc.: Hyperic (www.hyperic.com) provides open source monitoring and management software for all types of web applications, whether hosted in the cloud or on premise. Its software reduces the workload for operations teams at the world's biggest web companies, including CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, Contegix, Rackspace's Mosso, and more. Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer -- including hardware, networks, virtualization, cloud environments and applications. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital. For more information on careers at Hyperic, see http://www.hyperic.com/about/careers.html.
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