IT news and products; software fingerprinting capability.Tideway tide·way n. A channel in which a tidal current runs. Noun 1. tideway - a channel in which a tidal current runs have announced the general availability of its automated fingerprint update service for its flagship product, Tideway Foundation. It is used to provide complete transparency of data center configuration and dependencies, and makes configuration management as simple as search for companies like JPMorgan Chase, ING and Dresdner Kleinwort. The expanding role of the data center, and the rapid pace of introduction of new technologies, means the data quality and coverage of other solutions quickly falls behind. This service ensures that Tideway's customers benefit from automatic indexing, recognition, and mapping of new data center technologies and applications as they are released to market, providing the most complete map of their IT infrastructure configuration possible. Tideway's customers are using this technology to further automate their configuration management process--an essential underpinning of IT best practices such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). . This allows them to increase the pace of safe change, ensure compliance, and maximize availability and operational integrity. Building on the 2500-plus fingerprints shipped with the latest release of Tideway Foundation, the first update adds over 300 new fingerprints for key data centre software products. Foundation's ability to recognise the broadest set of key data center technologies such as Oracle RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database , Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. , Apache Tomcat, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) MQ Series makes it the fastest way to understand the precise configuration of any data center. Subsequent updates are accessible as part of a software-as-a-service offering that allows the user to browse the fingerprint library, subscribe to fingerprints of interest, submit fingerprints for verification and choose the frequency of update. The market is increasingly looking to Tideway as the industry expert in this space." Tideway Foundation is the only application dependency mapping product backed by a best-practice fingerprint validation process, a dedicated hosting environment, and a dedicated team of fingerprint developers and librarians. Tideway partners with the leading data centre technology providers such as IBM, Sun, HP, Sybase, Oracle, VMW VMW Virtual Medical Worlds VMW Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Watervoorziening (Flemish Water Board, Belgium) VMW Visualization-based Microarchitecture Workbench VMW Value Methodology Workshop are, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , Citrix, and Microsoft to ensure that their products are recognised by Foundation out-of-the-box. www.tideway.com |
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