Terracotta and Hyperic announced a technology license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Hyperic's SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter) has been incorporated into Terracotta 2.6. Hyperic's cross-platform SIGAR enables Terracotta to obtain key operating system and hardware information, important data points for monitoring and managing the health of application clusters.

"With the announcement of Terracotta 2.6 today, we are providing an unmatched cluster monitoring and visualization that provides an holistic view of the overall health and performance of application clusters," said Jeff Hartley, vice president of products, Terracotta. "Hyperic is complementary to the latest version of Terracotta, delivering to our customers flexible access to critical data for managing the Java-based applications that power their businesses."

With Hyperic, Terracotta provides application developers and managers system-level data, such as CPU utilization, disk use and network activity, that complement the statistics Terracotta can provide about activity within each Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as well as inter-JVM data communications facilitated by the Terracotta Server.

"High-performance web applications are the life's blood of today's web-based businesses, and companies like Terracotta make the development and deployment of these applications easier," said Jeff Santelices, vice president of business development, Hyperic. "We are pleased that Terracotta has chosen to OEM Hyperic's technology in its latest release. Technology leaders and innovators such as ISVs, SaaS providers and MSPs continue to validate Hyperic as the OEM technology of choice when adding a world-class management solution to their own offerings."

Terracotta lowers costs and simplifies web application deployment by reducing development effort and easing the load on application servers and databases, making it a solution for scaling critical applications. Offering the performance of local memory with the high availability of a database, Terracotta eliminates the performance and reliability tradeoffs that constrain many Java applications.

Hyperic's SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter) is a cross-platform, cross-language tool for accessing operating system and hardware information. Hyperic's multi-platform approach enables its partners to incorporate management across a wide range of environments, supporting Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Mac OSX across a variety of versions and architectures. It's now a key component of the Hyperic HQ management platform to provide auto-inventory, monitoring, login tracking, control and remote diagnostics, as well as several other popular technologies powering web such as MySQL, JBoss, Terracotta and more.