On the Hunt for Hidden Assets
08 Oct 2008 | Permalink | News
One company operating in this space is Tideway Systems. The company’s Foundation product provides both a CMDB and asset discovery capabilities, aimed at overcoming challenges in areas such as licence optimisation, cost containment and data centre automation. According to Richard Muirhead, the company’s CEO, using Foundation “throws a light on the kinds of efficiencies that might be achieved, and the resulting cost savings are very welcome indeed.”
For example, one Tideway customer, a US-based investment bank, found 90 servers that could be decommissioned when it used Foundation to perform a scan on 3,000 of its machines. At the same time, it also found a number of “ghost services” operating on these redundant servers that were causing maintenance issues.
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Hot Houses
22 Sep 2008 | Permalink | News
Within existing data centres leading firms are using automated tools to locate and unplug idle servers and virtualise underutilised machines. A manual audit of a data centre with 1,000 servers costs approximately $75,000, says Kosten Metreweli of Tideway, while Tideway’s product can audit a data centre daily. A small investment bank in London using Tideway found they could virtualise 30% of their servers, which gave them a carbon savings of 968 tons of CO2 per year.
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Lights Out
15 Sep 2008 | Permalink | News
“First data centers ran out of space, then they ran out of cooling, and now they are running out of power. For each USD 1 of spend on hardware and software, a further 50 cents is spent to power/cool them. For the 16 million servers across 7000 data centres in the US, that amounts to 350 billion kilowatt hours – or around 2% of all the electricity in the US,” says Richard Muirhead, CEO and founder of Tideway Systems. So what can enterprises do?
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Computing Awards - The Shortlist is Announced
15 Sep 2008 | Permalink | News
For the second consecutive year Tideway has been named a finalist for Business Software Supplier of the Year.
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Meet the CEO
05 Sep 2008 | Permalink | News
In this Finextra interview, Richard Muirhead of Tideway takes the Finextra Q&A
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