Wachovia
Wachovia Building “MapQuest for the Data Center”
InfoWorld
Wachovia is working on a project of staggering scope: a 3-D map of the firm’s datacenter operations. To generate the 3-D models, the financial services company is using geospatial data and also partnering with a pair of vendors, Tideway Systems and Intepoint, as well as the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, which has a visualization center.
Wachovia Rolls out Virtualization through its Data Centers and Some Trading Floors
Wall Street and Technology
In the interest of saving money and time and of becoming more environmentally friendly, Wachovia is virtualizing servers, desktops, storage and more. Before Wachovia could begin such a large-scale project it needed to obtain a clear picture of all the equipment and software it already had in its data center, as well as of how the business side interacts with the hardware and software. Data collected from Tideway Systems will help create the model.
“People need to understand where their infrastructure is and how it’s being used or overused. As we begin to virtualize our data centers, whether we’re virtualizing the I/Os or virtualizing the computers, we need to have better end-to-end visibility. Once we have the visibility, we’ll start to recognize redundancies.”
Thomas Caddoo, Vice President, Corproate and Investment Banking, Wachovia
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Tideway Rolls out Foundation 7.0
eWeek
Tom Caddoo, head of systems monitoring and management for Wachovia, piloted the Tideway Foundation software during a recent data center relocation. Using Foundation 7.0, Caddoo said, allowed his team greater visibility into dependencies and relationships between infrastructure and applications. The software produced a topology that helped his team plan when and how each server should be moved based on the applications they handled and their business functionality.
“As we’ve been growing, it has become important to us to make our data centers more geographically diverse. To move servers that are in our data center, it was important to know what dependencies existed between them and between the applications they are serving up.”
Jacob Hall, Vice President, Wachovia