Hyper9 now publically available
March 18th, 2009 | 
Author: Today marked the official release of the Hyper9 search based, agentless VMware admin tool. Regular readers will recall VM /ETC helped recruit beta testers for this product through multiple different sign up periods over the last 6 months. In fact, the Hyper9 team in Austin, TX has been busy with several press releases recently. I’ll sum them up with some quotes here in this post. Go to the Hyper9 | Company » News & Events web page to read all announcements in full.
Hyper9 Unveils Eagerly Awaited Flagship Product Press Release | 03.18.09
“Built for VI administrators by VI administrators, Hyper9 is a simple, yet powerful enterprise-class product that is ideally suited for managing virtual server infrastructures. It enables monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting on virtual infrastructures like nothing else in the marketplace. It accomplishes this without agents, tree views, spreadsheets, or multiple tools.
Among the key product features are:
- Search: Search across your entire virtual universe, from the hypervisor to inside the guest.
- Alert & Monitor: Build queries to monitor your environment from inside the guest and across your virtual infrastructure. Set up alerts to track changes and keep on top of problem solving.
- Compare: Analyze historical data about your virtual machines, such as how they’ve changed over time, with Hyper9 VMDNA.
- Report: Slice and dice data, generate performance charts and reports for management and colleagues.
- Collaborate: Store and manage your searches, lists and reports and invite colleagues into your workspace.
Not surprisingly, the product has earned praise from analysts and beta customers alike.”
A very close source to vmetc.com is actually quoted in this press release! 
Check out what he has to say!
Hyper9 Introduces Alert & Monitoring Applet Press Release | 03.18.09
“Hyper9, affordably priced at $25 a month, is now available for download at www.hyper9.com, while the add-on applet, as long as the core software is operational, is free to all Hyper9 trial download users and customers, and can be downloaded at: http://store.hyper9.com/product-add-ons.
The applet allows administrators to monitor and set up alerts against any facet/data point in their virtual environment. More specifically, it provides administrators with the ability to:
- Proactively manage and solve infrastructure challenges;
- Monitor configurations and issue alerts when configurations drift from a standard template; and
- Track, monitor and set up alerts for: new virtual machines, VMs missing important Hotfixes, new applications installed, VMotion activity and more.”
Venrock Leads Investment Round in Hyper9, Mike Maples Sr. Joins Its Board of Directors Press Release | 02.26.09
“… announced today that it has raised $8 million in a series B funding round. Venrock, a highly respected venture capital firm, led the round. Joining Venrock were current investors Matrix Partners, Silverton Partners and Maples Investments.
“Hyper9 will use the funds to launch and market its product, Hyper9,” said Chris Ostertag, CEO and founder of Hyper9. “Raising a second round of venture capital in today’s turbulent economic environment is a true testament to what our team has created at Hyper9. At a time when other virtualization vendors are struggling to stay alive, we are redesigning what virtual administrators can expect from their management solution in the future.”
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“The company also announced that Mike Maples Sr., a private investor and tech industry veteran, joined its Board of Directors. Formerly Executive Vice President of the Worldwide Products Group for Microsoft, Maples has a proven track record in advising software companies as they expand product lines and enhance business operations such as sales and marketing. Prior to Microsoft, Maples held senior positions at other market leading companies such as IBM, Lexmark, NetIQ, and Sonic restaurants”
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