IONA to OEM Hyperic as Part of its FUSE™ Family of Open Source Products

Business Wire, Dec 11, 2007

FUSE HQ Provides Comprehensive Cross-Platform Support for SOA Deployments

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source IT management, today announced that IONA[R] Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, will use Hyperic's flagship product, Hyperic HQ Enterprise, as the foundation for its new monitoring and management system, FUSE HQ. FUSE HQ is available now as part of IONA's latest version of its FUSE[TM] family of open source SOA products (also announced today).

The FUSE family of products is IONA's tested and certified releases of leading SOA Open Source projects at the Apache Software Foundation. FUSE HQ provides systems management and monitoring capabilities across all products in the FUSE family, including FUSE ESB (Apache ServiceMix), FUSE Message Broker (Apache ActiveMQ), FUSE Services Framework (Apache CXF) and FUSE Mediation Router (Apache Camel).

Key features of FUSE HQ include:

* A Web-based management console with auto discovery of managed assets

* Plug-in agents for all FUSE products

* Global configuration of views, metrics, alerts with metrics for FUSE plus management of more than 60 technologies

* Role-based access control and the ability to initiate "control actions"

* Distributed monitoring with high availability

"With FUSE, we want to provide our customers with the benefits of community developed software coupled with the assurances of enterprise class support and tooling," said Larry Alston, Vice President and General Manager Open Source, IONA Technologies. "The integration of Hyperic's technology in FUSE HQ enables us to offer management capabilities that are flexible and easy to use with open source deployments in the enterprise, giving our customers a single view into their infrastructure no matter what combination of technologies they are using."

"IONA's FUSE products provide a flexible platform for integration and support a broad range of technologies, protocols and deployment options," said Hyperic CEO Javier Soltero. "As a result, users need a management system that is cross platform, and can quickly integrate new technologies. We're pleased that IONA has selected Hyperic's technology to help make FUSE-supported systems easy and affordable to manage."

Based on Hyperic HQ Enterprise, Fuse HQ delivers enterprise-class systems management and monitoring capabilities to administrators. FUSE HQ is available only to IONA customers who subscribe for FUSE Support.

With Hyperic, companies can centrally manage their entire infrastructure, and more efficiently and effectively avoid costly downtime. An extensible system, Hyperic HQ manages all kinds of operating systems, web servers, application servers and database servers. The system starts with an auto-discovery process that regularly scans the entire infrastructure to detect and begin monitoring new technology and services. This powerful level of automation helps administrators keep pace with the rapidly changing and dynamic environments typical of SOA-based implementations.

Using the Hyperic HQ Portal, the software can be quickly configured to monitor, alert, diagnose and control most types of applications. Hyperic HQ was awarded "Best Systems Management Solution" at the 2007 LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

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 IONA, Hyperic has OEM agreements with MySQL AB, Red Hat/JBoss and MuleSource.

For more information on FUSE HQ, visit www.openiona.com.

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.

About IONA FUSE

IONA FUSE is a family of advanced, Open Source SOA infrastructure products based on leading SOA projects at the Apache Software Foundation. IONA FUSE features modular, standards based and technology neutral SOA infrastructure products that work together or independently and allows customers unprecedented flexibility in SOA adoption. The family includes FUSE ESB, (Apache ServiceMix), FUSE Message Broker, (Apache ActiveMQ), FUSE Services Framework, (Apache CXF) and FUSE Mediation Router, (Apache Camel). Product downloads, community forums, documentation and additional resources are available at http://open.iona.com.