Avis Europe Selects Tideway to Power Change Control for IT Compliance.Superior command and control functionality automates change validation, eliminates resource constraints and expense LONDON & NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Tideway tide·way n. A channel in which a tidal current runs. Noun 1. tideway - a channel in which a tidal current runs , one of the fastest growing providers of IT automation software, today announced that Avis Europe has selected Tideway Foundation[TM] to enhance change control and validation in its distributed data center environment. The implementation will help Avis meet audit and compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). , provide decision support and reduce the risk of service outages due to unplanned or improperly implemented changes. Foundation will provide Avis with detailed and continuous information on what changed in their infrastructure, allowing them to reconcile and drill down on specific changes, identify unauthorized activity and confirm all changes follow the appropriate change management process. Foundation's new user-defined, shared dashboards will provide a fast, rolled-up view of changes in Avis' IT environment. "We selected Tideway because we immediately saw the fit for our organization. Tideway Foundation allows us to 'watch the watchers' and demonstrate we have command and control over our change management process," said Robin Gardner, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Avis Europe. "The dashboards and visualizations Foundation provides make it much easier to distinguish what's changed in our environment and quickly drill down to the detail when we need it. This is a cost-effective solution that is fast to implement and can show real value very quickly." "We're proud to have Avis join the growing list of Tideway clients who are leveraging Foundation to optimize their IT infrastructure and drive better, faster, safer change management," said Richard Muirhead, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Founder of Tideway. "We're confident Tideway Foundation will streamline and accelerate the change impact analysis process for Avis." Tideway recently launched the Tideway Community Edition, a free, downloadable version of their award-winning automated discovery and application dependency mapping software, Tideway Foundation. The Community Edition is now available for download at: http://www.tideway.com/products/foundation/download/ About Tideway Tideway helps get data center projects done - on time and on budget. Tideway Foundation[TM] software continuously maps application relationships to physical and virtual infrastructure, including the dependencies between them. This single, automated view of application topology takes the cost and risk out of data center migration, consolidation and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. projects, accelerating ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . Clients include Dresdner Kleinwort Dresdner Kleinwort (DKIB) is the investment bank of Dresdner Bank AG, part of Allianz since July 2001. Headquartered in London and Frankfurt and with an international network including offices in the financial centres of New York and Tokyo, Dresdner Kleinwort provides a wide range , ING, Linklaters, Mizuho Bank and Wachovia. For more information, or to download the free, community edition of Tideway Foundation, visit www.tideway.com. |
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