As litigation revolving around transactional systems increases some experts believe we will very soon see cases where not knowing what applications are running on your servers, and where they are, will be construed as professional malpractice or negligence. If this is the case a few high profile cases would help…
One of the great things about working at Tideway is the varied interests we have around our normal tasks and the felxibility that the work hard, play hard culture extends. A few weeks ago out of the blue I had an opportunity fall in my lap to help sail a yacht from Gosport on the South Coast up to Troon on the West Coast of Scotland. It’s a voyage of around 500 nautical miles and 10 days along the West Country, around Lands End and up the East Coast of Ireland.
IT management is all about provided IT services to users. For many organisations rapid change, mergers, takeovers and reorganisations have left the services muddled to a point where it is no longer clear what part each Configuration Item (CI) plays in the IT machine.
IT Infrastructure groups are left to…
If business services are the stars of modern IT, then legacy systems are a lot like black holes. Yet despite their inherent uncertainty, they represent the promise of technology: they’ve done what they were supposed to do, and they did it without going supernova.
Gartner, the information and technology advisory firm, have released a report outlining the impact that Open Source Software will have on businesses in the coming years, even if no one notices it happening.
Some of the “highlights” in the report are:
Today we released the April Tideway Knowledge Update which extends Tideway’s coverage of virtualization products to include IBM AIX LPARs, WPARs and Citrix XenServer.
IBM AIX LPARs and WPARs is a great example of how Tideway works with with the software publisher to build patterns. In this case our TKU…
Allan recently blogged about ‘Standards or Chaos’ and this seems very appropriate in light of the current tech news.
For those that missed 2007 let me set the stage:
The OASIS foundation (of which Microsoft is/was a part) after a lot of time and effort (many years) had finally…
Joel Spolsky recently posted another great article where he at great length and in his usual amusing fashion describes the problems the Internet Explorer 8 team faced in deciding whether or not to adopt an idealistic or a pragmatic view of the world.
The bottom line is that…
Artificial intelligence (or AI) has had a bad rap for since the rise and fall of companies in the 1980’s such as Thinking Machines. Google’s mission to answer all questions posed by anyone at anytime around the world such as: “Where shall I go on holiday this Easter?” or “What…
Friday 7th March saw the latest of Tideway’s Knowledge Update releases which extends Foundation’s ability to identify the broadest, deepest and most up-to-date coverage of data center technologies.
The theme of this TKU release is Virtualization, with a particular focus around VMware Infrastructure by helping customers contain virtualization sprawl…
