Products Reaching End Of Life In August / September 09
This month’s installment of my regular update. Products reaching end of life in August and September that can be discovered by Tideway Foundation
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It’s Still a Good Time to Be Alive
I’ve now had some time to reflect on my first World Economic Forum, and I am already looking forward to returning to Davos next year. I wonder if that makes me a Davos Man? Regardless, I can say that my overarching emotion about the conference has been one of…
This Market Needs an Intervention - and a 12 Step Plan
This morning, the message at Davos was a sobering one right out of the gate: Get on with it; let the TARP be the TARP, etc. Yes, we need to come up with a way to value toxic assets. If recapitalization or foreclosure mitigation is necessary, then design a mechanism…
Is it possible to use best practice to implement ITIL??
It is best practice to test any change in a development/ safe environment prior to implementation. The development environment should simulate the production environment so that the impact of the change can be accurately assessed. But how many IT organisations have a second development IT Organisation? They may have a…
Low Hanging Data Center Savings
I mentioned in my first Tideway blog ( Thoughts on Climate Change) that I’d measured 2.5% of server assets were still running, although as far as IT reporting was concerned, they’d already been decommissioned. At first sight this might not seem significant compared to the cost of finding them.…
Enterprise Architecture
Back in the early 90’s I was a consultant in a large systems integrator. Moore’s law and de facto and de jure standardisations were breaking proprietary systems’ stranglehold on customers, driving the ambitions of organsations to increase the scope of their IT across the value chain and to get economies of scale of technology ownership, while increasing the end-to-end automation of their enterprises to reduce business operational costs.
The First Day at School
This weekend I was again enjoying the company of my nearly four year old nephew (the nearly being important at this age) when it struck me how in many ways the journey to our new release of Tideway Foundation has parallels to him growing up.
Whilst I have been…
Tideway Fingerprint Update - TKU is Here!
Today Tideway releases TKU4, its fourth bi-monthly release of software fingerprints that allow organisations to identify and version leading enterprise software products running in their data centers.
Behind each TKU release is a dedicated team. My role as product manager is to work with customers to drive a prioritised roadmap,…
Finally, a way to describe IT!
Remarkably, there is no standard for describing what software, hardware and business applications you have, how it is deployed, what the dependencies are, how to tell whether something is working or not, or even how important it is.
We are going to change this. We are going to allow you…
Flawed Thinking
We’ve recently been struggling with issues caused by a OS patch, which is not that unusual.
To understand the problem you need a bit of history. Back in the early 1990’s Sun switched from BSD based SunOS to System V based Solaris (we’ll skip the marketing move of rebranding SunOS 4.1 as Solaris 1).
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