*IT Week *
Tideway Systems will next week publish guidelines for IT departments to better allocate datacentre resources and is expanding its coverage of hardware power draw and thermal characteristics. Power management has become an increasing problem for IT chiefs in recent years as soaring power costs and the trend towards ultra-dense equipment have raised bills.
Computer Business Review
Kevin White tracks the evolution from systems management towards IT service management… with new service management mandates such as IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) on the agenda – and moves afoot to tighten IT governance with project portfolio management deployments – a good many IT shops have started to take a fresh look at their systems management routines.
Network World
The New Data Center denter demands easier, more reliable change-management processes. There’s an adage that says change is the only constant. Still, every IT executive knows constant change wreaks havoc on a complex IT environment. In fact, IDC and Gartner report that 70% to 80% of IT-related problems are directly attributable to changes made to the environment.
*Silicon.com *
Proper management of software licences can prevent your organisation falling foul of the law… One place where hardware and software are intertwined is the data centre. Richard Muirhead, CEO of Tideway, a maker of software asset management tools, explains: “We wanted to understand the operation and configuration of the data centre. This includes the servers, switches, software, licences and vendor management.“Muirhead suggests organisations can use Itil best practice and a federated Configuration Management Database to link this information through to the rest of the IT estate.
Information Age
Most IT organisations have no clear picture of the dependencies between the services they deliver and the host of underlying systems that support those. Can CMDBs provide that clarity?
