Virtualization Sprawl Hits Wall Street
13 Aug 2008 | Permalink | News
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
Read more…
Tideway Adds to Foundation Functionality
11 Aug 2008 | Permalink | News
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
Read more…
Mapping Apps to Avoid Disaster
31 Jul 2008 | Permalink | News
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
Read more…
Green IT Begins at the Datacentre
31 Jul 2008 | Permalink | News
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
Read more…
Green IT: A Journey of 1000 Steps
31 Jul 2008 | Permalink | News
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
Read more…
