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Hyperic HQ Named 2008 CODiE Awards Finalist for Best Systems Management Solution

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 21, 2008 – Hyperic Inc., a leading open source web infrastructure management software provider, today announced that the company’s flagship product, Hyperic HQ, has been named a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 23rd Annual CODiE Awards. Hyperic HQ provides operations teams worldwide with the most comprehensive and scalable web infrastructure management solution available. Since 1986, The CODiE Awards have recognized outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education technology industries.

"We are pleased to be recognized as an industry leader in systems management by such a prestigious organization as SIIA," said Javier Soltero, Hyperic CEO. "With the explosive growth of web-based services and Web 2.0 technologies, there has been a fundamental shift in core IT needs. At Hyperic, we are singularly focused on that shift, helping a new generation of companies match the rigorous scale and availability demands of today’s savvy online user.”

Hyperic offers the first software specifically designed to monitor and manage large-scale web infrastructure. With the click of a button, Hyperic HQ automatically discovers, integrates and manages hardware, network and application technologies, helping companies to more easily and effectively maintain their business critical services. Companies like CNET Networks, eHarmony, Hi5, Rackspace’s Mosso, and others are using Hyperic not only to manage their extremely complex systems but to provide competitive advantage by increasing the performance of their websites and applications.

Hyperic HQ has been recognized with several industry awards, including LinuxWorld’s “Best Systems Management Tool for 2007,” and more recently, Sourceforge.net’s Project of the Month for January 2008 and Enterprise Management Associate’s First Team All-Star award for “Best Open Source Systems Management.”

For more information about Hyperic or Hyperic HQ, please visit http://www.hyperic.com. A complete list of the 2008 CODiE Award finalists is available here: http://www.siia.net/codies/2008/finalists.asp.

About Hyperic Inc.
Hyperic provides open source web infrastructure management software that reduces the workload for operations teams at the world’s biggest web companies, including CNET Networks, hi5 Networks, eHarmony.com, Rackspace’s Mosso, and more. Its award-winning Hyperic HQ software auto-discovers and updates asset inventory and allows operations teams to perform cross-platform monitoring, diagnostics and control from a remote, web-based console, helping them more quickly pinpoint, correct, and prevent problems at every major layer—including hardware, networks, virtualization and applications. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital.

About SIIA
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit http://www.siia.net.

CloudStatus Provides Free, Real-Time Performance Information for Amazon Web Services

Velocity Conference—San Francisco, Calif.—June 23, 2008 – Open source web infrastructure management provider Hyperic Inc., (Velocity Booth #6), today launched the beta of Hyperic CloudStatus, the first service to provide an independent view of the health and performance of the most popular cloud on the Internet, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The new service gives businesses that use the cloud the perspective they need to determine the cause of performance changes in their cloud-based web applications. CloudStatus beta is a free service built on the Hyperic HQ management platform and will expand to include additional cloud providers this summer.