For March client Tideway, 2008 has already brought with it enormous growth and giant waves of activity (pun completed intended). On the heels of announcing $27 million in Series C funding, Tideway has recently released a new version of their award-winning application dependency mapping software, Foundation, and is currently putting the finishing touches on a social-networking-inspired companion to Foundation that has been dubbed "Facebook for systems administrators."

Tideway made a name for itself by enabling optimization and relocation projects in the large, complex, and availability-critical IT infrastructures of major global financial institutions, and has developed expertise along the way in the particular nuances and concerns of financial services IT. In this video feature from Finextra, you can see Tideway's Founder and CEO, Richard Muirhead, along with Wachovia's former senior VP and Chief Architect, Tony Bishop, discussing Wachovia's high-profile data center relocation project and the economic/technological/environmental pressures that are causing more banking institutions to rethink their data center strategy.

Richard has spent the past week at the annual SIFMA Technology Management Conference, live-blogging his thoughts, discussions and trends spotted from the show floor. His posts have been smart, insightful, and just a little bit cheeky - check out some of the highlights, linked below:

SIFMA: Pre-Show Thoughts (6/9/08)
Boiled Sweets; Hand-Rolled Cigars and John McCain (6/10/08)
Grand Theft Auto and Zero Tolerance (6/12/08)
Data Center Survival! (6/13/08)