The growing demands and complexities of modern data centers not only challenge CTOs on cost and operational factors, but also can degrade the corporate IT efforts—after all, it takes a lot more greenhouse-gas emitting juice to run them these days. According to a new McKinsey quarterly report, large data centers for financial companies, telecoms, etc., take up 25 percent of IT budgets—and will require more as the price of electricity escalates.
That’s why Tideway, a mapping dependency software firm that’s been used by Wachovia and other banks to automatically track data center servers and applications, has an enhanced version of its core offering that can now pinpoint and aggregate energy use and heat output of systems. Unveiled at the Gartner data conference this week in Las Vegas, UK-based Tideway’s new Foundation software analyzes power consumption statistics to track the carbon footprint of a particular distributed business application, according to Tideway. There’s even a shared community network for clients to share findings, according to CTO Adam Kerrison. “Patterns, reports, visualizations and discovery extensions that are built by foundation users can now be shared with the broader community…to enhance user experience and collaboration,” he says.
The new platform is available in January.
