Hyperic's technology draws on lessons learned from the four-year-old company's roots, automating management of highly virtualized datacenters, Soltero says.

Part of the 4.0 release will be available as a fully configured system on Amazon's Web Services; an Amazon Machine Image preconfigured for Amazon's elastic Block Storage will be available later this month. This new offering will be available with a low initiation fee and a pay-as-you-consume pricing model, according to Hyperic. This is the first such enterprise-level cloud management offering customers can deploy and pay for directly via Amazon Web Services, according to Hyperic.

For those interested in learning more about managing performance of cloud services, Hyperic's free site CloudStatus offers insight into how Amazon and Google's cloud offerings are running at any time. "People need to have a strong assurance that the platform is stable and reliable," Soltero says. "We wanted to shine a bright light on the performance of these services."

In the future, Soltero says, look for Hyperic to deliver more IT management information that's subscription-based on top of that free data, Soltero says.

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