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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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Storage Economics Podcast: Ideas and Tactics to Reduce Storage Total Cost of Ownership
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
PODCAST: David Merrill, Chief Storage Economist at Hitachi Data Systems, discusses concepts and principles around storage TCO, ideas and tactics to reduce the cost of your storage architecture, and what the analysts are saying about storage...
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 24 Dec 2008
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Virtualization in SAP environments
sponsored by VMware and Intel
PODCAST: Learn how to craft a virtualization strategy optimized for an SAP enterprise applications environment.
Posted: 12 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 12 Dec 2008
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Going Green While Reducing Operational Costs, an Interview with Joe Clabby - Videocast
sponsored by IBM
VIDEO: Joe reveals what technology he feels will have the biggest influence on the data center's costs and what else enterprises can do besides dumping air for water cooling.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 10 Dec 2008
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Virtualization and Business Agility: How to create a virtual strategy for real success
sponsored by VMware and Intel
WEBCAST: In this Webcast, learn how your organization can craft a virtualization strategy to help reduce TCO, achieve business agility, improve competitive advantage and survive tough economic times.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization with Dell and Citrix
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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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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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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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Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center
sponsored by Spansion, Inc.
WEBCAST: In this webcast, learn how you can make breakthroughs in power, server consolidation and total cost of ownership in x86 data centers.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Top 10 Ways to Save Energy in Your Data Center
sponsored by Wright Line
VIDEO: Watch this expert videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 to learn the top 10 energy saving tactics. Review advanced hot-aisle/cold-aisle strategies, tips for power distribution optimization, and more.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2008
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Saving Energy in Your Data Center -- Why is it Important?
sponsored by Wright Line
VIDEO: Why create an energy-efficient data center? This expert videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 uses real-life scenarios to explain the key benefits, how to meet regulations, and strategies to track and measure energy efficiency.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2008
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Windows Essential Business Server - A Real-World Customer Perspective
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Join us for this technical session to get real-world insight into how Windows Essential Server Solutions are working for customers today.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Combat Your IT Challenges with XenApp 5.0
sponsored by Citrix
PODCAST: Address the top challenges facing your organization today - how to reduce application management costs, support telecommuters and outsourcers and ensure business continuity. Explore the requirements and best practices that XenApp 5 brings.
Posted: 08 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 10 Nov 2008
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Changing the SQL Landscape through Consolidation Podcast
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
PODCAST: Discover an IT consolidation platform that effectively runs applications such as Oracle and SAP.
Posted: 05 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 05 Nov 2008
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Simplifying the Data Center Network Webcast
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WEBCAST: This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data centers in terms of the new architecture.
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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The HP 9000 Server Transition to HP Integrity Server - Webcast
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: In this Webcast learn more about the transition from HP 9000 to HP Integrity servers: HP Integrity Server Future and HP 9000 Server Roadmaps, Why HP Integrity Servers?, HP 9000 Server Evolution Program Provides a Smooth Path to HP Integrity...
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Could You Be Overspending on SAP Licenses? How to Control SAP Spending
sponsored by Acresso
WEBCAST: Join Acresso Software's license management expert Jeff Greenwald and Derek Prior, research director for AMR Research, as they discuss new techniques companies are using to cut SAP spending by an average of 30%.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Initiating Your Virtualization Project
sponsored by IBM
VIDEOCAST: In this presentation, virtualization expert Barb Goldworm provides an in-depth introduction to virtualization, showing how and where virtual technology can add value to IT infrastructure.
Posted: 18 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 18 Aug 2008
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PeopleSoft Enterprise: Ensure Upgrade Success with Strategies and Best Practices for Leveraging Archiving
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: Learn how to improve the success of your upgrade project and help your organization better meet the needs of your business users by leveraging data management and database archiving best practices while upgrading PeopleSoft.
Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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EMC and Microsoft Delivering Network Aware Service Management
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Are you in need of a solution that provides end-to-end management across your entire infrastructure? Find out how EMC and Microsoft have teamed up to create a solution that addresses these issues.
Posted: 28 Nov 2007 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Simplifying Data Centers & Storage Area Networks by Creating a Virtual Infrastructure Layer
sponsored by OnPATH Technologies
WEBCAST: A virtual infrastructure layer can help your organization adapt to the dynamic needs of a virtualized data center by providing a more secure environment that enables a hands-off approach to managing the SAN. This Webcast provides an overview of the...
Posted: 23 Oct 2007 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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iSCSI SANs - The Reality and the Vision
sponsored by Fujitsu Computer Systems
WEBCAST: In this expert Webcast, Tony looks at the research that ESG has compiled since this market's inception, outlines the major myths surrounding iSCSI and dispels them with ESG research and hands-on analysis.
Posted: 27 Aug 2007 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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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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