/news-events/ en a.tiner@tideway.com Copyright 2008 2008-08-22T13:01:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/meet-the-ceo/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/meet-the-ceo/#When:13:01:00Z In this Finextra interview, Richard Muirhead of Tideway takes the Finextra Q&A Link to Article News 2008-08-22T13:01:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/are-hidden-costs-plaguing-your-it-operations-a-view-from-the-trenches/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/are-hidden-costs-plaguing-your-it-operations-a-view-from-the-trenches/#When:13:24:00Z One global investment bank is convinced that there’s a lot of waste and redundancy that can be eliminated fairly easily. Using Tideway’s mapping product Foundation, for example, it created “a map of all of our data center assets and the relationships between them. The idea here was to be able to be predictive about our data center relocation – ‘what happens if we unplug this server?’ When we did an initial scan of 3,000 servers, we found another 90 machines that should have been retired.” On those servers, they found a lot of ghost services that created some maintenance issues. Link to Article News 2008-08-19T13:24:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/what-to-watch-for-during-a-virtual-machines-lifecycle/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/what-to-watch-for-during-a-virtual-machines-lifecycle/#When:13:23:00Z Visibility: Machines set up for a specific purpose – for example, testing or development – can linger without administrators’ knowledge. For application visibility, Tideway Systems’ Foundation maps application relationships to the physical and virtual servers. Link to Article News 2008-08-18T13:23:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/the-life-and-death-of-a-virtual-machine/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/the-life-and-death-of-a-virtual-machine/#When:13:20:00Z Most IT organizations have a hard time nailing down their physical inventory. They lose track of things over the years and through mergers, agrees Jim Houghton, who led Wachovia’s Corporate & Investment Bank IT Utility group until a year ago and now is CTO of Adaptivity, an infrastructure consulting firm. For example, when Wachovia’s IT department initially deployed Tideway Systems’ Foundation application and discovery tool, “we found over 50 servers that should have been retired,” he says. Link to Article News 2008-08-18T13:20:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/how-to-create-a-business-boosting-virtualization-plan/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/how-to-create-a-business-boosting-virtualization-plan/#When:13:17:00Z From the bottom up, you want to understand what you have. That’s where you use a tool like Tideway Systems’ Foundation, which tells you the physical inventory and the dependencies of your existing infrastructure. You’re able to understand how every system interconnects, down from the network and up to the application. That’s powerful, especially because then, when you virtualize and add changes, it can show you the new dependencies. Now, when you come bottom-up, with ‘what do I have’ and ‘where can I target opportunities to virtualize,’ you can understand what that would do to the infrastructure. Link to Article News 2008-08-18T13:17:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/virtualization-sprawl-hits-wall-street/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/virtualization-sprawl-hits-wall-street/#When:13:13:00Z Having implemented virtualization software to conquer “server sprawl”, many Wall Street firms are now in the throes of “virtual sprawl.” Wachovia uses IT mapping software from Tideway to see where virtual machines exist — on which physical servers. The firm is also building a “mapquest for the data center” that will provide a visual representation of everything in the data centers. “As we virtualize more, it will become more important to know what we have and how it’s physically deployed — where do the resources exist today, where were they yesterday?” Jacob Hall,Chief Architect at Wachovia says. Link to Article News 2008-08-13T13:13:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/tideway-adds-to-foundation-functionality/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/tideway-adds-to-foundation-functionality/#When:13:28:01Z Tideway Foundation, first released in 2003, enables and facilitates visualization and reporting of data, providing the user with an accurate and up-to-date view of the infrastructure and how it relates to business applications within the firm. “ The new version will give the user the ability to tweak discovery to selectively dig deeper into infrastructure components and pull back whatever additional information is important to them,” says Kosten Metreweli, VP of Product Management at Tideway. Link to Article News 2008-08-11T13:28:01+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/mapping-apps-to-avoid-disaster/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/mapping-apps-to-avoid-disaster/#When:22:00:00Z To prevent lost downtime, or worse, many firms such as Wachovia are turning to the burgeoning field of application dependency mapping (ADM), an infrastructure snapshot that can provide the crucial insight for change management—not only for major moves, but even for patches and upgrades to existing infrastructure.Without Tidewater’s discovery and mapping, there was “a high likelihood that errors would be made. The resulting downtime would [have been] unpleasant and mission costly,” says Jim Houghton, who was head of utility product management of Wachovia’s corporate and investment bank at the time of the transition. Link to Article News 2008-07-31T22:00:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/green-it-begins-at-the-datacentre/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/green-it-begins-at-the-datacentre/#When:15:21:00Z Almost half the UK respondents of a recent survey conducted by Brocade think a quarter of their company’s operating expenses are spent on energy. An efficient data center – one with an accurate count of its servers and other hardware, software and additional resources – uses about 25% less electricity than a run-of-the-mill one. In a midsize facility, that could amount to $4.5 million a year in savings. Link to Article News 2008-07-31T15:21:00+00:00 http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/green-it-a-journey-of-1000-steps/ http://www.tideway.com/news-events/news-item/green-it-a-journey-of-1000-steps/#When:15:17:00Z The right IT management tools can help a company reduce its carbon footprint – and save considerable costs in the process. Before you can get to the big work in the data center – decommissioning the inefficient or useless servers, virtualizing the existing resources, relocating – organizations need to be able to approach these initiatives with accurate and thorough intelligence about their IT assets and the relationships between infrastructure, specific business services and energy consumption. Without this intelligence, it can be hard to know what to do to reduce emissions, much less how to do it without risking the interruption of business-critical, revenue-generating services. Link to Article News 2008-07-31T15:17:00+00:00