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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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Optimizing the application testing of your Siebel CRM environment
sponsored by HP and Infosys
WEBCAST: Infosys and HP invite you to join us for a webcast on September 10th at 3:00 EDT on the topic, Optimizing the application testing of your Siebel CRM environment with the "Siebel Business Process Testing (BPT) Accelerator," developed by Infosys and HP.
Posted: 21 Aug 2008 | Premieres: 10 Sep 2008, 15:00 EDT (19:00 GMT)
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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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Podcast on Green Storage with Nik Simpson, storage analyst for The Burton Group
sponsored by COPAN Systems
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: 01 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 01 Aug 2008
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Data Center: Total Cost of Ownership
sponsored by Liquid Computing
VIDEOCAST: View this videocast to learn how you can reduce TCO in the data center by 60% with a flexible platform technique that increases availability, computing capacity, and time savings for IT tasks.
Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 20 Jun 2008
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ISE: A New Foundation for Data Storage
sponsored by Xiotech Corporation
VIDEOCAST: This Videocast highlights a revolutionary next generation disk storage platform that delivers a number of performance advantages over conventional technologies.
Posted: 18 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 18 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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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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Podcast: Trends, Challenges, and Innovations in Enterprise Mobility
sponsored by OQO, Inc
PODCAST: Gain insight into a practical, solutions-oriented approach as well as how you can mobilize line of business applications while minimizing TCO.
Posted: 19 May 2008 | Premiered: 19 May 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Oracle and Pillar Data Systems - Application Aware Storage in Practice
sponsored by Pillar Data Systems
WEBCAST: Join us for an exciting look at how application and storage optimization can deliver real business benefits within an IT intensive organization.
Posted: 13 Mar 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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