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TCO

ALSO CALLED: IT TCO, Cost of Ownership, Cost Savings Calculators, Total Cost of Ownership, Cost Calculators, and TCO Calculators
DEFINITION: TCO (total cost of ownership) is a type of calculation designed to help consumers and enterprise managers assess both direct and indirect costs and benefits related to the purchase of any IT component. The intention is to arrive at a final figure that will reflect the effective  … 
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Easy Integration of Microsoft Office Excel® with the SAP® Business Suite for Financial Data
sponsored by Winshuttle, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how SAP® customers use Winshuttle® solutions to automate the shuttling of financial data between Microsoft Excel and SAP transactions.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Email Security Buyer's Guide: Software, Appliance, Managed Service?
sponsored by MessageLabs
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper for a buyer's guide to email security solutions that offer protection of business continuity, data and brand image, effective implementation of email policies and regulatory compliance at national and global levels.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Choosing a Solution for Web-Filtering: Software, Appliance, Managed Service?
sponsored by MessageLabs
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper for a better look at managed web security services that enable businesses to set up and enforce acceptable usage policies that are flexible, fit-for-purpose and accommodate evolving needs and priorities.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Squeezing More Value out of Data Warehouses through the Power of Database Compression
sponsored by Vertica Systems
WHITE PAPER: Data compression features in data warehouse databases are the current trend, and this paper explains the benefits of compression in data warehousing and differentiates compression approaches taken by different databases.
Posted: 03 Dec 2008 | Published: 03 Dec 2008
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Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization with Dell and Citrix
sponsored by Dell | EqualLogic
WEBCAST: Join us for this live eSeminar to learn important considerations in your virtualized server and storage environments.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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TOPICS:  Data Centers | Enterprise | SAN | TCO

Samsung Gains U.S.$2.9 Million Annually with Portal Solution
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
CASE STUDY: To address their critical need to enable full, real-time information sharing and collaboration among employees, business partners, and key customers, Samsung Electronics Corporation adopted a comprehensive portal solution based on Microsoft technology.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Business Customers Find Mainframe Costs out of Step with Data Center Budgets
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
PRESS RELEASE: This press release explains how more than 250 companies worldwide have migrated to HP Integrity systems from mainframes over the past two years, saving up to 70 percent in operational costs.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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Quicktour Demo: Key Differentiators between Microstrategy and SAS
sponsored by MicroStrategy Incorporated
WHITE PAPER: This tour provides an overview of MicroStrategy platform's uniquely powerful enterprise BI capabilities and illustrates the 12 key differentiators between MicroStrategy and SAS.
Posted: 26 Nov 2008 | Published: 26 Nov 2008
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12 Things You Should Know about Identity Management
sponsored by Quest Software
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores 12 important principles for defining and addressing identity management.
Posted: 24 Nov 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Four-socket Servers Offer Significant Advantages and Lower TCO in Multiple Virtualization Deployment Scenarios.
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WEBCAST: Learn how four-socket servers based on Intel Xeon processor 7400 series can offer significant advantages and lower TCO in multiple virtualization deployment scenarios.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Intel IT: Implementing Virtualization in a Global Environment
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Learn all the ways that server virtualization and consolidation can benefit IT: everything from greater agility to lower energy bills.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Virtualizing the Client PC: A Proof of Concept
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: In this paper Intel IT explores a proof of concept study that examined the viability of abstracting the client operating system from the hardware platform using virtualization.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Maximizing IT Value by Using High-End Server Processors
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this bried to discover how to gain significant IT OpEx and CapEx advantages through reduced data center space, reduced power, and lower application licenses for our given design performance/throughput needs.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Should You Deploy Wireless Notebooks as Your Primary Employee PC?
sponsored by Intel Corporation
PODCAST: This podcast provides a comprehensive look at the value IT at Intel has delivered to the business through this approach.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 21 Nov 2008
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Delivering Virtualization Benefits by Refreshing Client PCs
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how new platforms that include faster processors with Intel Virtualization Technology can eliminate concerns about client virtualization performance and offer many other benefits.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Developing an Enterprise Client Virtualization Strategy
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Intel conducted a series of studies to analyze the potential benefits of each technology and to begin to develop a targeted strategy for delivering client virtualization to our users. Read this document to review the findings.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Software On-Demand: Operating System/Application Streaming Client Study
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Intel IT explored the technical feasibility and value of enterprise streaming. The study showed very favorable results with respect to performance, user perceptions, and the impact on IT operations.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Client Computing with Virtual User Environment
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Intel IT developed a new computing approach that combines multiple emerging technologies, including client virtualization and streaming, to potentially transform the way we deliver computing to users.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Enabling Manageability with Intel Active Management Technology
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Learn how Intel IT is implementing Intel Active Management Technology across the enterprise.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Improved Chilled Water Piping Distribution Methodology for Data Centers
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses new piping approaches, which can dramatically reduce the risk of leakage and facilitate high-density deployment.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Data Center Projects: Growth Model
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER: This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Purchasing Storage: What the Vendors Don't Want You to Know
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This document will help you plan to make a major storage purchase by explaining how to maximize your storage budget, how to negotiate with vendors, and how to make storage decisions without politics.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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MDM Journey: The Right and Wrong Master Data Management Strategies to Start Small and Grow Big
sponsored by Siperian, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: No master data management journey is the same. Read this paper to learn from the successes and failures of MDM early adopters, how to select a technology that doesn't limit MDM's evolution and to compare approaches based on industry-specific examples.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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First American cuts TCO with HP and VMware
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
CASE STUDY: First American decided to standardize on virtualization and by virtualizing with VMware and HP BladeSystem, they reduced the total cost of server ownership by 30 percent and management time by 30 percent.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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HP Virtualization with Intel and VMware
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The VMware partnership and technical collaboration with HP and Intel ensure customers a reliable and scalable platform for building a complete virtualized data center solution.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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TCO DEFINITION (continued): …  cost of purchase, all things considered. When you decide to buy a computer you may go through a TCO analysis: for example, the greater cost price of a high-end computer might be one consideration, but one that would have to be balanced by adding likely repair costs and earlier replacement to the purchase cost of the bargain brand.

TCO analysis originated with the Gartner Group several years ago and has since been developed in a number of different methodologies and software tools. TCO analysis … 
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