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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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RFID Reader Options for Better RFID Solution Design
sponsored by Motorola, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an in-depth look at the three types of RFID readers available today, from general functionality to typical deployment scenarios.
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Right-Sizing a Security Management Appliance
sponsored by NEI
CASE STUDY: This paper describes NEI's holistic approach to integrating hardware, OS, management software and services, which enabled Intellitactics to accelerate the development and launch of their SAFE appliances.
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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TCO Calculator: Migrate from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell
sponsored by Novell Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This TCO Calculator is designed to show the savings organizations can realize by migrating from Solaris 8 or 9 on Spark to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on x86 hardware.
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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File Serving Utility Provides Higher Performance, Lower Cost File Serving
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how HP's PolyServe File Serving Utility delivers scalable performance and capacity with high availability services at a fraction of the price of traditional NAS.
Posted: 19 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Virtualization Licensing and Support Lethargy: Curing the Disease That Stalls Virtualization Adoption
sponsored by Burton Group
WHITE PAPER: Today, most applications can efficiently run inside virtual machines (VMs), and application vendors have a responsibility to develop licensing and support policies offering virtualization compatibility without the expense of added management to...
Posted: 18 Jul 2008 | Published: 22 Jan 2008
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Podcast on Green Storage with Nik Simpson, storage analyst for The Burton Group
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PODCAST: In this expert Podcast, Nik Simpson, analyst with The Burton Group, discusses trends in green storage, distinguishing industry hype from what storage managers are actually doing in the real world.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Premiered: 16 Jul 2008
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e-Invoicing for Accounts Payable: Towards True Paper-free Vendor Invoice Processing
sponsored by Dolphin Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details inefficiencies and obstacles in Accounts Payable focused around invoice capture and processing.
Posted: 14 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Going the Distance with Disaster Recovery - How to Protect More Data and save Costs While Adding Distance
sponsored by Compellent
WEBCAST: Learn how Community Health Plan, a leading managed care provider serving over 225,000 people, performs real-time data replication across a WAN, dramatically improving disaster recovery effectiveness while reducing TCO.
Posted: 14 Jul 2008 | Premieres: 20 Feb 2009
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Five CIO Challenges Addressed by Better Change Management
sponsored by Telelogic, An IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. This white paper addresses five of the most important change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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The Sitecore Solution for Web Content Management: Building an Interactive Presence for Profitable Business Relationships
sponsored by SiteCore
WHITE PAPER: As an industry leader in Web Content Management applications designed for the .NET environment, Sitecore's Content Management System(CMS) delivers a compelling and economical solution for capturing, organizing, storing, and producing Web-based content
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 10 Jul 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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