Does Keeping the Lights on Keep You Up at Night?

Standardization is an important method for reducing IT risk and managing down the ‘keeping the lights on’ costs. Global 2000 organizations can implement hundreds of changes to their production environment every day. From simple software patches to complex application roll-outs, this high rate of change creates a fast drift away from a known state. The many, many variations in vendors, products, versions and configurations in the data center increases the risk of downtime from unknown vulnerabilities, expands skill set requirements and drives up licencing costs.

Create Consistency

Tideway Foundation™ collects detailed configuration data from across the entire IT estate using agent-free indexing techniques. Exception reports then highlight deviations from required IT standards, including product versions, missing patches, unsupported software or configuration mismatches. Each report allows you to proactively identify and resolve potential variations and risks before issues arise. With Foundation, a standardized IT environment is within reach.

Reduce Risk, Increase Availability – Sleep Well

• Save 80% of the time taken to manually gather infrastructure data
• Proactively highlight areas of risk within IT and increase system availability
• Reduce the number of operating system and software versions being managed
• Avoid the cost and disruption of unplanned downtime
• Deliver a consistent and standardized IT environment

“Knowing where everything is means you feel more confident that you know exactly what is going on, what the risks are, and how to resolve the problems.”
Stephen Ashton, Global Head of IT Business Management, Dresdner Kleinwort

JP Garbarni of Forrester Research discusses the necessity of creating a stable IT environment

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