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…
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.
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…
by Tim Coote | 04 Sep 2007 | Permalink | CMDB, Everything Else, Featured, Home Page, IT Management, Project Management, Software, Software Business Models, Software Engineering
My boss, when our team was building the architecture methods (see Enterprise Architecture), was involved with the UK Government’s development of ITIL. Because I became aware of both the ITIL documentation and the analysis that we used in developing architecture methods, I think that there’s a significant issue that’s…
by Alex Horstmann | 28 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering, User Experience, Web 2.0
I’m often asked why I prefer to use Ajax HTML rather than XML or JSON etc. There are multiple reasons I cite, one is it’s easier to maintain but the more important one is that it’s faster and less work (both on the frontend and the backend).
Here’s…
by Tim Coote | 28 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else, Featured, IT Management, Project Management, Software, Software Business Models, Software Engineering, Teamwork, Web 2.0
Back in the early 90’s I was a consultant in a large systems integrator. Moore’s law and de facto and de jure standardisations were breaking proprietary systems’ stranglehold on customers, driving the ambitions of organsations to increase the scope of their IT across the value chain and to get economies of scale of technology ownership, while increasing the end-to-end automation of their enterprises to reduce business operational costs.
by Charles Oldham | 14 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Home Page, IT Management, Software, Software Business Models, User Experience
Originally I was going to comment on Allan’s excellent summary of our new provenance features, but it turned into a post in its own right. Whilst I think that the features provided by provenance will clearly be of use during pattern development I think they have wider scope than…
by Charles Oldham | 14 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Featured, Software, Software Engineering, Teamwork
This weekend I was again enjoying the company of my nearly four year old nephew (the nearly being important at this age) when it struck me how in many ways the journey to our new release of Tideway Foundation has parallels to him growing up.
Whilst I…
by Kosten | 30 Jul 2007 | Permalink | Featured, IT Management, Software
Today Tideway releases TKU4, its fourth bi-monthly release of software fingerprints that allow organisations to identify and version leading enterprise software products running in their data centers.
Behind each TKU release is a dedicated team. My role as product manager is to work with customers to drive a…
by Allan Mertner | 19 Jul 2007 | Permalink | Featured, IT Management, Software, Software Business Models
Remarkably, there is no standard for describing what software, hardware and business applications you have, how it is deployed, what the dependencies are, how to tell whether something is working or not, or even how important it is.
We are going to change this. We are going to…
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