Bank Quits London Datacentre
03 Jul 2008 | Permalink | News
Dresdner Kleinwort is relocating its London Docklands datacentre in a multimillion-pound project that will see a complete revamp of hardware, software and management processes. The bank used an automated discovery system from Tideway to assess its existing infrastructure, cross-referencing the data with existing manual inventories and reports. “Relocating a datacentre is a very resource-intensive exercise, with the co-ordination of the logistics behind it being the trickiest part,” said John Bratkovics, Dresdner Kleinwort’s global head of networks, voice and collaboration technologies. “Upfront work in identifying equipment within the site, as well as communicating what has been moved, was essential.”
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Licensed to Kill?
26 Jun 2008 | Permalink | News
As new technologies require fewer software licenses, vendors are on the licensing warpath. With customers embracing new technologies like grid, virtualization and multi-core processors that let them do more with fewer licenses, providers are offering new licensing schemes. The calculations these vendors use may be complex, but the answer for customers is simple: enterprises must find new ways to effectively gauge software use — and they need to do it in a climate in which cuts to IT spending are reportedly looming.
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Four Ways to Improve IT and Get Better Application Performance
19 Jun 2008 | Permalink | News
Turning to a tool such as Tideway Systems’ Foundation helps organizations transform because it yields an objective view of the environment, says Tony Bishop, formerly chief architect at Wachovia in Charlotte, N.C. This alleviates finger-pointing. “Not only does it give me my physical inventory, but it actually generates the mapping of my users, applications and all the infrastructure components down to the subnet level of the network.”
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Tooling up to Go Green
17 Jun 2008 | Permalink | News
Tideway is one company that can help cut power for organizations with virtualization initiatives. Tideway uses VMware technology and can consolidate physical servers on an 8-to-1 ratio. Some Tideway customers have been able to identify 30 percent of servers to virtualize, and that translated into saving $1.8 million per year – along with 968 tons of carbon per year.
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Dealing with Power Constraints and Delivering to the Business
12 Jun 2008 | Permalink | News
Tony Bishop, former senior VP and chief architect of Wachovia, and Richard Muirhead, CEO, Tideway, discuss Wachovia’s award-winning data center project. In this video they discuss what they learned from the project to understand, visualize and optimize application performance and operations, and comment on the power constraints that are driving data center re-engineering projects across the financial services industry.
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