Cisco’s Windows VPN client is a decent bit of software in that it’s stable, easy to use and it does what it says on the tin. However, I found myself wishing for an alternative… and much fun ensued.
In a software company, deciding which one of a big pile of conflicting priorities to work on next is one of the hardest things to get right. And it is critical to the business: If your process for doing this works, you end up with products that your customers and…
A couple of months ago I became the proud owner of an Apple Macbook Air. The little geezer immediately transformed my relationship with a laptop in a whole slew of ways. One way that it particularly seduced me was the delightful combination of my Macbook Air with TV Shows downloaded…
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…
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…
During my recent visit to India, I interviewed several potential candidates for our offshore development team. In doing this, I learned some valuable lessons about interviewing in India that I will share with you so you can avoid some of the pitfalls that are obvious – but probably only…
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…
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…
