Quoting from press release:

Tideway Systems today announces the availability of Foundation 6.0 - Tideway's IT service configuration management product. Foundation 6.0 includes significant advancements in its support for virtualization technologies- such as VMWare, Sun Solaris containers and Microsoft Windows Clustering Services. The release also includes additional reports and visualizations to support these virtualization technologies. Tideway Foundation provides both the business and the IT department with a reliable, up-to-date and coherent source of IT intelligence. Tideway's customers include: JP Morgan Chase, Dresdner Kleinwort, Linklaters and British American Tobacco.

Global law firm Linklaters depends heavily on accessing sensitive information around the clock. They are implementing Tideway Foundation to help accurately map the IT infrastructure and give users a clearer picture of its critical business applications. "With today's fast adoption of virtualization technologies we have certainly felt the challenge of managing application dependencies where virtualization has been deployed. As such we are looking forward to gaining a sustainable way of understanding our complete inventory of virtual servers, where they physically reside and which business applications they support. In this way upgrading to 6.0 will allow us to keep control of the proliferation of virtual servers and therewith contain management costs," explained Simon Gilhooly, Head of Global Technical Systems at Linklaters

Richard Muirhead, CEO of Tideway, added: "Almost every large enterprise is looking to drive down IT costs by optimizing utilization in their expansive data centers. Programs of virtualization are often seen as a key method of achieving this. What is often missed is that virtualization adds additional layers of overhead and complexity to the management of these environments - so cost savings in hardware are offset by increases in headcount and outtage costs. To make these programs truly effective, you need a clear picture of the entire IT environment - virtual and physical, how all the components relate to each other, and to identify clearly areas of non compliance."

Foundation 6.0 - a unique approach for managing virtual environments

Tideway Foundation 6.0 allows IT organizations to cut through the complexity of virtual environments, penetrating the layers of abstraction and untangling the relationships between the physical and virtual worlds. Tideway Foundation 6.0 uniquely models and maps complex, virtualized, n-tier business applications, assisted by hybrid discovery techniques, removing the last hurdle to virtualization. It is now possible to visualize exactly how the physical and virtualized IT environments support critical business applications and gain direct access to compliance reports.

Tideway Foundation 6.0 manages virtual technologies including VMware (ESX, GSX, VMware Server, Workstation, ACE), Xen, Solaris 10 Containers, Egenera BladeFrames and Microsoft Clustering Services. For further information on additional new features and updates please visit the Tideway website at: www.tideway.com