Buttressing its move into servers in search of a new revenue stream, network equipment maven Cisco is buying privately held Tidal Software for roughly $105 million in cash and retention incentives, hardly a rounding error for the wealthy Cisco.
Cisco says Tidal's intelligent application management and automation solutions will advance its data center aspirations and let it dangle operating savings in front of customers.
Tidal manages SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite, .NET and Java applications and schedules database and CRM workloads. Tidal's recent development deal with SAP to integrate Tidal with SAP's Solution Manager lifecycle management is evidently important.
Cisco says Tidal will let it follow transaction flow, which it can already analyze on the network, into the application and ultimately optimize solutions by determining if hiccups are network-, system- or application-related.
Tidal has a boutique-set of specialized or edgy skills that are nowhere near the systems management abilities of a BMC, which is partnering with Cisco on its newfangled Unified Computing System (UCS) or, come to think of it, a CA or IBM Tivoli, all of which can be integrated with Tidal.
In a statement the company said, "Tidal Software's intelligent solutions will bolster Cisco's data center strategy by providing timely, accurate and cost-efficient management and automation of application performance across entire business operations, from the server through the network to the desktop."
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