I’m a big fan of PC games because of their richness – the high definition screen, the sophisticated input devices and all those gigabytes of hard drive space let games producers build incredibly rich, explorable environments. It’s a great thing to be released into a new environment and left to…
Over the past year, we have worked on a new version of Tideway Foundation. As mentioned previously, we have introduced a systematic way of describing the patterns that occur in IT using a new Pattern Langugage, Tipple. Tipple is used by Foundation to figure out how to discover…
At a recent conference on virtualization, one of the speakers described the current adoption rate for virtualization as “unprecedented in the history of emerging technologies” (John Humphries, IDC, June 07)
IDC then backed-up this claim with some compelling stats:
When visiting customers, we often speak with virtualization managers excited by the ROI their virtualization strategies are generating. The benefits include higher utilisation rates (often jumping from 10-15% to 80-85% for x86 machines), improved consolidation of infrastructure, and lots of cost savings in power and cooling.
But they…
I had an interesting philosophical discussion with one of my colleagues about the level of customization you would do for any given product deployment.
“Ok, I’ve seen it in the press … Tideway Foundation generates great application dependency data … well, what can I use it for?”
The answer: the “what” is limited only by your imagination.
Working with partners
Today, Tideway dependency data is used by customers…
On Tideway’s press release page, you will see that we have launched the Tideway Technology Alliance Program (T-TAP) in April ‘07. The primary purpose of the program is provide a set of resources to ISVs interested in working with Tideway to build integrations to our products.
The…
How do you bring together Tideway’s exciting mission to automate the world’s data centres with fun and also saving the planet Sound tricky…well…some would argue that we already do something for enhancing the fun factor in Data Centre Operations…and in the context of data centre consolidation and efficient management we…
This article plays directly to one of Tideway’s strengths as a product that can not only automate and institutionalize knowledge that is currently riskily resides in the heads of IT personnel, but secondly is doing so for intelligence that spans the tiers of the application infrastructure…
A new piece of research from Forrester (”Why Green IT Should Feature In Sourcing Plans”- by Euan Davis) suggests that sourcing executives will increasingly need to incorporate green considerations into their sourcing policies. I agree – here in the UK,…
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