TKU April Extends Tideway’s Virtualization Coverage to Include IBM LPARs / WPARs and Citrix
by Steve Watts | 04 Apr 2008 | Permalink | Hardware, Home Page, Software, Virtualization
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…
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Contain VM Sprawl and Verify VMware Infrastructure Resiliency with March TKU
by Steve Watts | 10 Mar 2008 | Permalink | Home Page, Software
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…
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BEA Security Advisories (BEA08-80.04, BEA08-110.01, BEA08-159.01, BEA08-183.00 thru BEA08-200.00)
by Steve Watts | 21 Feb 2008 | Permalink | Home Page, Software
I’ve just been talking with a number of Tideway customers today about the latest BEA Security Advisory Notification posted on 19/2.
They have already been able to identify impacted instances of Weblogic Server, Platform, Workshop, Portal and JRockit and are now assessing with the view to remediating next week. I…
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HP, IBM, Sun and Veritas Clustering & HA Software in February TKU Release
by Steve Watts | 18 Feb 2008 | Permalink | Home Page, Software
The February TKU release increases Tideway’s coverage of industry leading cluster and high availability products.
Click on the links to learn more about these patterns:
HP ServiceGuard
IBM HACMP
Sun Cluster
Veritas Cluster Server
Microsoft…
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Identify Oracle January CPU Candidates with February TKU Release
by Steve Watts | 12 Feb 2008 | Permalink | Home Page, Software
On 15th January Oracle released its latest critical patch update (CPU). Looking at the technology products (Application Server and Database) requiring the CPU it was evident that Tideway Foundation patterns provide the level of precision (5 digit version identification) needed to help organizations identify instances requiring the patch.
Go…
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Veritas Licensing in February TKU Release
by Steve Watts | 10 Feb 2008 | Permalink | Home Page, Software
I have to tell you about the great work done by Edoardo, one of our TKU Developers.
We have been asked by a number of organizations to assist with Symantec Veritas license audits. Veritas products provide a challenge from an audit perspective for two reasons:
1) they use license key…
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Oracle Acquisition of BEA
by Steve Watts | 18 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Home Page
I’m hearing conflicting responses to the potential impact of the Oracle acquisition of BEA on Weblogic / AquaLogic houses.
In ‘An Oracle-BEA Combo: How It Will Affect You, Oct 2007’ Forrester recommend organizations ‘that have both Oracle and BEA products should chart their inventory and analyze the potential for consolidation…
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