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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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Software Business 2008

31 Oct 2008 | Permalink | Event, Conference

Tideway CEO Richard Muirhead will present as part of a CEO panel at Software Business 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Titled “Growth Challenges and Opportunities,” the panel will focus on the strategies these leading CEOs have employed to grow their businesses, obtain outside funding and adapt to meet new challenges.

CMDB – A Journey, Not a Destination: Best Practices from the Field

24 Sep 2008 | Permalink | Webinar

Tideway draws on best practices acquired from working with a wide range of organizations in the field.

VMWorld 2008

16 Sep 2008 | Permalink | Event, Conference

Tideway CEO Richard Muirhead will present a customer case study titled “MapQuest for the Data Center” as part of a panel at VMWorld 2008. The session, titled “Lessons Learned: Growing and Managing your Virtual Infrastructure,” will take place on Tuesday, September 16, at 3:00 pm.

Data Center Dynamics

16 Sep 2008 | Permalink | Event, Conference

Charles Rattray, Director of Professional Services at Tideway, will deliver a keynote presentation at Data Center Dynamics in Chicago, IL. The session, titled “Baseline your IT Estate: Inter-System Dependencies and Relationships of Servers, Software and Applications” will take place on September 16 at 9:00 am.

Growing Business Roundtable

17 Jul 2008 | Permalink | Event

Tideway CEO and Founder Richard Muirhead will be participating in the Growing Business round table in London. Muirhead will be a part of a panel of hand-picked entrepreneurs who will discuss Financing growth in the current climate – How does the ‘credit crunch’ affect your growing business, and how do you secure financing to take your business to the next level?

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