Good Infrastructure Discovery is More Pressing than CMDB
It seems the toughest task—but potentially the most useful—is to identify all the dependencies between all software and all hardware, including use of virtual servers and their applications. Tideway has clearly cracked this. The Foundation software can plot the lot, and can if required produce a Visio-style map of the whole infrastructure. However, unlike Visio, it is automatically formed from live up-to-date information—so you can show the boss what the true picture is like as at start of play the day you see him.