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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WHITE PAPER: Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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The purpose of this paper is to assist business and IT leaders in determining the network management strategy and architecture for their organization and to provide practical advice on how to implement the best strategy to drive tangible business value.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 13 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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This paper is written specifically for non-IT executives, with the primary objectives to describe the LTO process and how software provides value to these business process improvements.
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Solid ICE is the industry's highest performing and most scalable virtual desktop product. It allows enterprises the benefit of centralized desktops, without the need to change their applications or infrastructure.
WEBCAST: Posted: 29 Apr 2008 | When: Available On Demand
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This webinar takes a practical, solutions-oriented approach and looks at how business and IT managers can mobilize line of business applications while minimizing TCO.
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Compellent's innovative storage platform helps organizations dramatically reduce both capital and operating expenses, while improving data availability and recovery.
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In this live Webcast, The Clipper Group reviews the associated costs for each approach to store data long term and determines the real world impact of each approach.
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View this Webcast to learn about a virtualized storage migration solution that offers heterogeneous storage virtualization and enables non-disruptive data migration from your existing storage environment.
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 TCO definition sponsored by SearchDataCenter.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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