Tideway Systems Launches Rapid Data Center Audit

Unique Offering Delivers Comprehensive Inventory in Only Two Weeks

NEW YORK, New York and LONDON - November 5, 2007 – Tideway Systems, an independent leader in IT automation, today launched a Data Center Audit offer to provide a comprehensive inventory of the hardware, software and dependency information in the data center within two weeks. The limited time offer is aimed at enterprises attempting server consolidation, data center moves or M&A related integration to help them reduce risk, lower complexity and deliver faster time-to-value.

Tideway’s Data Center Audit is an efficient and rapid alternative to the traditional manual audit process. A one-time manual inventory of 1000 servers can take up to 60 person-days of work, often resulting in an inventory that can be outdated before it is even complete. By leveraging Tideway’s Data Center Audit, enterprises can gather the same amount of data automatically in approximately three hours at no incremental cost. Tideway can deliver a comprehensive report of software and applications in only two weeks and provide high quality, accurate and actionable data in days that is refreshed on a daily basis, highlighting changes to the infrastructure as they occur.

“Many enterprises lack a 360-degree view of their IT assets. This gap in knowledge can result in excessive IT costs, service outages and chaos in the data center,” said Richard Muirhead, CEO and founder of Tideway Systems. “In large IT estates we have found that two to five per cent of servers still running in the data center are marked as decommissioned and a further five to ten per cent are idle – this equates to significant financial expense for the enterprise, not to mention the impact on the environment. Tideway’s Data Center Audit is a low-risk solution that can quickly provide a complete inventory of IT assets to help firms rapidly move toward IT automation.”

The Tideway Data Center Audit is fully managed by Tideway to a proven set of best practices, reducing the complexity of the process. Tideway’s Data Center Audit aims to provide inventory information to Tideway Configuration Management Maturity Levels (CMML) Level 3 in the shortest possible time and offers a money-back guarantee if this aim is not achieved. The service is available for up to 1000 hosts and lasts for 90 days. Audits are also available for larger size infrastructures. To find out more, visit: http://www.tideway.com/solutions/solutions_overview/DCAudit/

Contacts:
Cheryl Gale/Lillian Dunlap
March Communications
+1 617 475 1571
tideway@marchpr.com

Audra Tiner
Director of Marketing Communications
Tideway Systems
a.tiner@tideway.com
+1 647 884 9481

About Tideway Systems
Tideway Systems provides a shared platform for technologists to visualize and report on the data they need to make informed decisions. Tideway Foundation™ software continuously maps application relationships to physical and virtual infrastructure, including the dependencies between them. This single, automated view of application topology enables enterprises to cut costs, reduce risk and better manage change. Tideway is rated as a category leader by prominent analyst firms. Clients include Dresdner Kleinwort, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), ING, Linklaters and Mizuho Bank. For more information, visit www.tideway.com.

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