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Cisco picks up Tidal Software

Cisco picks up Tidal Softwareits amazing how a money shortage bring sanity back to businessno more 500+ million dollar deals for over blown companies.RE: Cisco picks up Tidal SoftwareI find this acquisition very odd. Cisco is making a play into the data center by purchasing a job scheduling software vendor....

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Tidal Software, Job Scheduling

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Tidal Software launches intelligent reporting for Enterprise Scheduler

Tidal Software has announced a reporting product that gives enterprises insight into the functioning of their job scheduling environment, enabling IT and line-of-business personal to make quick decisions in both IT and business environments. Tidal Intelligent Reporting, designed to support Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, aggregates all the scheduler's...

Tags: Job, Information Technology, Environment, Tidal Software, Intelligent Reporting, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Podcasts, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Automate to Optimize: The Foundation for Data Center Efficiency

Data centers experience constant change under pressure from technology and business drivers. IT systems are becoming more, not less complex as new technologies are introduced, and IT staffs are not growing to keep pace with the growth in size and complexity of the typical data center. Windows administrators need to...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Windows Administrator, Complex, Tidal Software, IT System, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2008-02-01

Additional Resources

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Why on ZDnet?

I think most of the folks who read this section of ZDnet understand how digital tech and the future of energy, mineral and water and air resource use are so closely interconnected. But occasionally somebody who really doesn't want global warming written about, or hates the very idea that...

Tags: Pollution, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Why?Because any future energy system , even if coal-powered, will make great use of IT, software and digital technologies. As will any affort to convert energy systems to solar, wind, tidal, etc. Even the digital and nano-tech being used in cars now and in future will come from...

Tags: Low Tech, wind farm, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

Green-tech design tool helps clean-tech designer

It wouldn’t be very green of a clean-tech company to waste lots of materials while designing and developing and testing its product, would it? Autodesk sure doesn’t think so. The well-established CAD software company continues to reposition some of its core 3-D products as great tools for...

Tags: Autodesk Inc., Clean Technology, Tool, Ocean Treader, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apart

Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apartall books should be free in electronic formCan't the publishers see the tidal FOSS wipping out proprietary software?They don't realize that there is an analogy between copyrighted books and proprietary software that points to their demise.It's already happening with the...

Tags: INTERNET, Google Just, Google Inc., book deal

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Report: Cisco's buying spree unlikely to include Sun

Cisco may have billions of cash on-hand to make some key acquisitions during the downturn - but don't count on Sun Microsystems to be one of them. Cisco CEO John Chambers, during a briefing in Seoul, said the company will be "aggressive" during the downturn and will...

Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-15

News to know: Conficker; Patch Tuesday; Fiber optic sabotage; App Easter eggs

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage.  Ryan Naraine: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 8 bulletins, 5 critical Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model Dancho Danchev: Fake "Conficker Infection...

Tags: Facebook, Fiber-optics, Microsoft Corp., Easter Egg, Microsoft Office, Fiber Optics, Network Technology, Office Suites, Software, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Cisco picks up Tidal Software

Cisco Systems said Thursday that it will acquire privately held Tidal Software, which makes application management and automation software, for $105 million.  The networking giant said the addition of Tidal will advance its data center and service offerings.  Tidal's employees will be folded into...

Tags: Software, Application Management, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Frugal 1.0 (Mobile)

Tidal Pool Software is pleased to announce the release of Frugal 1.0 for Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch. Frugal compares grocery prices to help find the best deal while shopping. It handles products in imperial US and UK and metric units to find out which actually has the...

Tags: Mobile, Grocery, Tidal Pool Software, Frugal, Food & Beverage, 3G, Manufacturing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-03-16

Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhone

Ballmer praises openness, attacks iPhoneWow... some attack....notntOpen to Ballmer means open to taking your money oropen to taking your ideas oropen to spreading FUD oropen to being too big to fail or justopen to like a trap ready to close at anytime.Tell Ballmer he can talk about open when MS...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Steve Ballmer, openness, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, attack

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

Google makes mistake, internet goes crazy

Google makes mistake, internet goes crazyHow does it feel to be an apologist for Google?Just wondering.When all of your eggs are in one basket...Expect problems when you are big brother google and all ofyour eggs are in one basket...Kind of like socialism.Microsoft makes a mistake, Garett goes crazyand the story...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Internet, worm, Google Inc., http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-13615-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=6

Discussion threads 2009-02-01

We're all dead - get over it

I've been scratching my head the last few days wondering why Bill McDermott, SAP's CEO of global field operations would flat out contend that: SAP is positioned to gain share in the business applications market as IT departments scrutinize every dollar spent, while predicting that...

Tags: SAP AG, SOA, SAP Sales People, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-13

The Mac is dead (again), pass the Cider

The Mac is dead again, pass the CiderSome of the software developed exclusively for MS.......is pretty creative and innovative, too.It Means MacWorld is DeadMacWorld has been getting smaller and smaller every year. This upcoming one will be the smallest ever. A lot of big name companies Adobe for one have...

Tags: Desktops, Cider, MAC IS, Apple Macintosh, PC

Discussion threads 2008-12-17

The perks of free agency with Verizon Wireless

The perks of free agency with Verizon WirelessI might agree they will take a quarterly hitbut nothing more. Year over year, AT&T has a higher churn rate then Verizon, with Sprint by far the highest.I do not see Verizon being overly concerned here, though the pre-order might have more to...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, perk, Verizon Wireless, agency, phone

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Ghost Story: Fear of Microsoft Fades

As Halloween fast approaches, Apple is producing more good-natured fun, poking fun at Microsoft's decision to end the use of Vista as the name of its Windows operating system for PCs. It probably didn't cost much to produce the latest...

Tags: Operating System, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Internet, Software, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal waveStallman sounds panicIf FOSS folks believe they can compete with proprietary software, why not build their own FOSS cloud and then take the battle right to the other proprietary cloud platforms?Ever been in a restaurant kitchen ?How old is the food ? Where have...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, OPEN SOURCE, Stallman, cloud computing, tidal wave, TV

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less about Stallman's worry about the security implications of cloud computing, and more about his desire for a software ecosystems that adheres...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-01