Fingerprint Auto-Update Service


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Fingerprint Auto-Update Service

Richard Muirhead
Founder & CEO
Tideway Systems

Tideway, the independent leader in IT service configuration management for enterprises, has announced the general availability of its automated fingerprint update service for its flagship product, Tideway Foundation. Tideway Foundation 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. This allows them to increase the pace of safe change, ensure compliance and maximize availability and operational integrity.

Building on the 2500+ fingerprints shipped with the latest release of Tideway Foundation, the first update adds over 300 new fingerprints for key data center software products. Foundation's ability to recognise the broadest set of key data center technologies such as Oracle RDBMS, Sybase ASE, Apache Tomcat and IBM 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.

"Tideway Foundation is the proven market leader in IT service configuration management, with the largest deployments in the market at customers such as JPMorgan Chase, ING and Dresdner Kleinwort," said Richard Muirhead, CEO of Tideway Systems. "The ability for Tideway Foundation to constantly learn about the latest software products on the fly further reduces manual effort in the configuration management process, and extends our market leadership. 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 center technology providers such as IBM, Sun, HP, Sybase, Oracle, VMWare, BEA, Citrix and Microsoft to ensure that their products are recognised by Foundation out-of-the-box.

Tideway is recognized by industry analysts as a market leader, and the only independent application dependency mapping vendor.

Tideway Systems is a privately held company, founded by Richard Muirhead in 2002 and headquartered in London, UK. Tideway's software solutions provide business service configuration management to some of the world's largest enterprises and service providers.

Tideway's IT service configuration management products provide IT operations with complete transparency of their run-time environment. Through modelling of both bespoke and COTS applications and automated infrastructure indexing, Tideway's solutions serve as a cornerstone to enhance IT department responsiveness, and reduce application downtime. Tideway delivers value to a number of critical projects including: implementation of business service management, improving operational integrity, meeting IT compliance, speeding change management and implementation of IT best practice such as ITIL.

See http://www.tideway.com for further information.

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