The consolidation in the network and systems management space continues. This morning, BMC announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Tideway Systems, Ltd. based in the United Kingdom. Not much is know about the integration of the two firms and the technology stack, but Tideway did announce they expect transaction to [...]
CA posted some impressive numbers last night after the market closed. They beat the consensus estimate for earnings per share, revenue, and cash flow. Quite impressive given the current economic challenges that are facing the world and impacting IT budgets. Digging a little deeper into their financials, one can see that CA has been reaping [...]
In the 7.2.90.1 Community Edition of Tideway Foundation, which Tideway admits is still very much beta code, there is an interesting new feature that they are working on. In the prerelease notes for this version, they refer to the feature as Host Grouping. The claim is that it will enable an IT shop to get [...]
Every once in a while a software vendor steps out of the box. Tideway Systems has done so with the introduction of the Community Edition of their core product, Foundation. You may be saying to yourself; there’s nothing new with being able to download a 30 day trial or evaluation version of software,; Microsoft and [...]
