Frequently Asked Questions

1. Cloud Migration - Tidal helps you understand your application portfolio, identify the best candidates for migration, and plan your migration strategy following a proven 6R methodology (Retain, Retire, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Replace). Tidal Accelerator delivers a 6R recommendation engine for companies looking to scale from 10 to 1000s of applications consistently and quickly.
2. Application Modernization - Tidal helps you understand your application portfolio, measuing business and missions, as we well as technology components in order to identify the best candidates for modernization. Tidal also helps you plan your modernization and delivers a single source of truth for your modernization project team and application owners to collaborate on the journey together.
3. Application Rationalization - Tidal helps you understand your application portfolio, identify the best candidates for rationalization, and plan your rationalization strategy.
4. Application Portfolio Management - Tidal helps you understand your application portfolio, measuring technology debt, application complexity and business value in order to identify the best candidates for rationalization, modernization or migration during investment planning cycles.
5. IP Address Management (IPAM) - On premises, in the cloud, or both, Tidal helps you understand your IP address space quickly and easily with our LightMesh capability. You can start with a spreadsheet, cloud integration or our nmap discovery.

IP Address Management, commonly referred to as IPAM, is a crucial category in network management that focuses specifically on the allocation, administration, tracking, and management of IP address spaces. Unlike DDI solutions, which encompass DNS (Domain Name System), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), and IPAM, the IPAM category stands on its own as a specialized field.

IPAM primarily deals with the organization and management of IP address spaces, ensuring efficient use of IP addresses, avoiding conflicts, and maintaining accurate data about the status, allocation, and availability of IP addresses within a network. In contrast, DDI solutions offer a broader scope by integrating DNS and DHCP services alongside IPAM, making them more comprehensive but often more complex.

At Tidal Cloud, we recognize the unique needs of managing IP address space by network teams when operating in the cloud, on-premises and during migration initiatives. That's why we offer Tidal LightMesh, a cloud-native IPAM solution specifically designed to address the challenges of IP address management.

Tidal LightMesh focuses exclusively on the problem of managing IP address space alone. It provides a streamlined and efficient approach for organizations looking to move away from traditional methods such as spreadsheets and homegrown tools, or from more comprehensive but potentially bloated DDI solutions. Tidal LightMesh's intuitive interface and robust features make it an ideal choice for organizations seeking a dedicated solution to manage their IP address infrastructure efficiently and effectively.

When you you have DNS Tools and Tidal Tools installed, we will query your DNS for impacted sites, and then analyze their technology make up. You’re in control of what data gets sent to our platform, as everything executes locally on your machine and only when you use the --upload command is information collected sent to our platform.

Tidal Accelerator and Tidal LightMesh (IPAM) also support nmap as a discovery source for host detection, IP address usage and service discovery.