Mapping Energy Use

摘要

Tideway launched Tideway Foundation 7.2, an automated discovery and application-dependency mapping solution. The software aggregates hardware reference and software end-of-Iife data traditionally spread across multiple systems, offering organizations a single platform from which to analyze power consumption for business applications; view their carbon footprint; and ensure that end-of-Iife, unsupported software is not being used in production applications,Tideway says. An estimated 70 percent of data centers will experience a disruptive incident related to space, power or cooling by 2011, In response. Tideway says, Foundation 7.2 combines discovered data about hardware assets with manufacturers' specifications on the power use, heat output and rack space used by each hardware component in the data center to optimize resources. Users can create customized hardware inventory views and com- bine them with Foundation's application modeling to map and track the carbon footprint of a distributed business application. By helping manage the entire data center software life cycle, Foundation 7.2 also reduces the support costs and business risks associated with aging software,Tideway claims.