Beating software piracy is easier than you think
21 Jun 2006 | Permalink | News
*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.
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Voyage of Discovery
01 May 2006 | Permalink | News
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?
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Get To Know Your Data Center With CMDB
05 Apr 2006 | Permalink | News
SearchDataCenter.com
Chances are good that your company is already using some form of a configuration management database (CMDB) — but you might not know it. A CMDB is a database that contains information about all components in a data center and the relationships between those components….IT analyst firm Forrester Reseearch, Inc. recently evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of vendors that have brought dependency mapping and CMDB tools to market…
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Headcount boost is welcomed for start-ups
23 Mar 2006 | Permalink | News
*Financial Times *
The software and biotechnology industries welcomed plans to extend the most generous research and development tax relief to mid-tier companies… Richard Muirhead, chief executive of Tideway Systems, a London-based business software company, said the changes would help to reduce the current bias of R&D tax relief towards very small companies…
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Clearing the way for better IT
21 Mar 2006 | Permalink | News
Financial Times
The tough market environment has forced investment banks to reduce their costs while, at the same time, ensuring they improve security and compliance with regulations and new legislation (such as the Basel 2 capital adequacy accord). As global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), JP Rangaswami is all too aware of these pressures. For the past two years he has been working with Tideway Systems, a UK-based company founded in 2002 with a mission to enhance the performance of global IT enterprises, to implement a solution.
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