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.