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Feb 10, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: IT TCO, Cost of Ownership, Cost Savings Calculators, Total Cost of Ownership, Cost Calculators, 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 cost of purchase, all things considered. When you decide to buy a computer you may go through a TCO analysis: for example, … Definition continues below.
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Protecting Corporate Data in the "BYOD" Environment sponsored by Apperian, Inc. WHITE PAPER: While BYOD offers many benefits to your business, it is imperative that you insure the integrity of your corporate assets. Posted: 10 Feb 2012 \| Published: 10 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Authentication \| Endpoint Security \| Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Security \| Smart Phones \| Tablet PC \| TCO \| Wireless Security

Assessing the Total Cost of Ownership for BI sponsored by LogiXML WHITE PAPER: This report provides mid-market organizations a framework for evaluating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Reporting Software \| Small Businesses \| SMBs \| TCO

Guide to Evaluating Two-Factor Authentication Solutions sponsored by PhoneFactor WHITE PAPER: This white paper will help you choose the two-factor solution that is right for your business. Posted: 06 Jan 2012 \| Published: 06 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Authentication \| Biometrics \| Password Management \| Security Best Practices \| Smart Cards \| SMS \| TCO

Transforming Applications for the Secure, Context-Aware, Instant-On Connected World sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited WHITE PAPER: Uncover how Instant-On Enterprises are transforming applications for a secure, context aware, connected environment at work, home, play or on the road. Posted: 04 Jan 2012 \| Published: 04 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Application Monitoring \| Applications Management \| Cloud Computing \| Mobile Device Management \| Network Architectures \| Network Infrastructure \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| TCO

Management and virtualization tools to simplify Windows 7 migration sponsored by Microsoft WHITE PAPER: The Microsoft® Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), a key part of the Flexible Workstyle solutions, allows you to both simplify and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your Windows® 7 desktop. Read this white paper to find out more about this advanced approach to desktop management. Posted: 14 Dec 2011 \| Published: 14 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Desktop Applications Management \| Desktop Management \| Desktop Virtualization \| Enterprise Computing \| PC Operating Systems \| TCO \| Windows 7

Enhance Virtualization With Multi-Port Server Adapters sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel WHITE PAPER: Intel Ethernet controllers and network adapters are optimized to meet the needs of virtualized data centers. Read this whitepaper to learn more about Multi-Port Intel Ethernet Server Adapters and how they can help you optimize server virtualization. Posted: 30 Nov 2011 \| Published: 30 Nov 2011 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Ethernet Adapters \| Ethernet Networks \| NAS \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| ROI \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| Virtual Machine \| VM

Upgrading Data Center Network Architecture to 10 Gigabit Ethernet sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel WHITE PAPER: To accommodate increasing demands that data center growth places on networks, it is important to think of converting data center network architecture to 10GbE connections. Posted: 30 Nov 2011 \| Published: 30 Nov 2011 TOPICS: 10 Gigabit Ethernet \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Networking \| LAN \| Network Architectures \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Networking \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| TCO

ePlus Enterprise Cloud - Your On-Ramp to Cloud Computing sponsored by ePlus Technology WHITE PAPER: Cloud is fundamentally changing the way organizations deliver and consume IT services through sharing servers, storage, and network resources. Find out why you should pick a trusted provider to help you implement cloud. Posted: 14 Nov 2011 \| Published: 14 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Data Center Management \| Private Cloud \| TCO \| Vendor Selection

Miercom Lab Testing Summary Report: Plug and Play Switches sponsored by Avaya WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper is a lab testing summary report of the plug and play features and easy of configuration for the ERS 4548GT-PWR Edge switch. Posted: 01 Nov 2011 \| Published: 01 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Energy Efficiency \| Ethernet Switches \| IP \| IP Phones \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Routing \| Routing Protocols \| TCO \| VLAN

CW+: Roundtable: Managing IT assets and tracking total cost of ownership sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com WHITE PAPER: Today’s economic climate means IT departments are under pressure to deliver both never-fail applications and service levels that meet business needs, while also reducing costs. Posted: 21 Oct 2011 \| Published: 21 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Budgeting \| IT Asset Management \| IT Management \| TCO

Business travel IT grows with HP BladeSystem sponsored by HP and Intel WHITE PAPER: Learn how one business upgraded their server environment using an HP blade server and DL series servers. Discover how this advance lowered acquisition costs, decreased maintenance, and reduced IT staff time. Posted: 20 Oct 2011 \| Published: 20 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Server Management \| Server Provisioning \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| Virtual Machine Migration

DL980 Customer Chronicles sponsored by Intel and HP WHITE PAPER: Regardless of industry, IT leaders must lower costs and keep pace with their company’s business growth, and are seeking alternatives to legacy infrastructure. This document is a compilation of five customer evaluations — all documented to demonstrate the business benefits customers have received by migrating to the new generation DL980 servers. Posted: 15 Sep 2011 \| Published: 15 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Application Server Hardware \| Data Compression \| Data Migration \| Database Performance Management \| Health Care Industry \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| TCO

BlackBerry TCO Field Services Study sponsored by BlackBerry WHITE PAPER: In this report, businesses were interviewed and then analyzed to understand the factors that influenced their decision to mobilize their field force using standard BlackBerry smartphones instead of ruggedized mobile devices. Posted: 12 Sep 2011 \| Published: 12 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Mobile Device Management \| Security Management \| Smart Phones \| TCO \| Wireless Computing \| Wireless Security

Premise vs. Hosted Contact Center: Total Cost of Ownership Analysis sponsored by inContact WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents the results of a total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis comparing premise-based and hosted contact center platforms. Posted: 08 Aug 2011 \| Published: 08 Aug 2011 TOPICS: Call Center Management \| Call Center Software \| Capital Expenditures \| Cloud CRM \| Contact Center Management \| Contact Center Services \| Contact Center Software \| TCO

The Quantum DXi6700 Family: DXi6701 and DXi6702 sponsored by Quantum Corporation WHITE PAPER: Considering deduplication as a remedy to data growth and to improve backup and recovery processes often brings compromises in performance, total cost of ownership, and adaptability for future growth. Quantum continues to respond with a portfolio of solutions targeted at these primary pain points. Read on to learn more. Posted: 05 Aug 2011 \| Published: 05 Aug 2011 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Deduplication \| Data Recovery \| Enterprise \| ROI \| SMBs \| TCO

CRM Total Cost of Ownership: Fees, Subscriptions and Hidden Costs sponsored by SugarCRM Inc. WHITE PAPER: The following analysis provides a comparative price analysis of four leading CRM solutions for midmarketorganizations. Forrester Research defines midmarket organizations as any organization with revenues of lessthan $1 billion and/or fewer than 1,000 employees. Posted: 15 Jul 2011 \| Published: 15 Jul 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| CRM \| CRM Analytics \| CRM Analytics Software \| CRM Software \| Customer Service \| TCO

Efficient Data Recovery Demands a Unified Solution sponsored by Acronis NEMEA WHITE PAPER: For small business and remote office/branch office IT administrators, the financial and technical challenges of maintaining a comprehensive business continuity solution can be daunting. Read this white paper to learn some solutions that may help you and your organization. Posted: 05 Jul 2011 \| Published: 05 Jul 2011 TOPICS: Backups \| Business Continuity Planning \| Data Recovery \| Disaster Recovery \| Downtime \| SLA \| SMBs \| Storage Management \| TCO

Optimizing Storage for Oracle E-Business Suite Applications sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a cost-effective information management solution that optimizes storage infrastructures while also maintaining the performance and scalability that businesses require. Posted: 08 Jun 2011 \| Published: 08 Jun 2011 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Data Compression \| Data Management \| Information Management \| OLTP \| Oracle (Product) \| TCO

Optimizing Desktop Virtualization with Dell Equallogic Hybrid Arrays sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In recent years, we have witnessed great technology leaps from all of the leading VDI software vendors. In this part of our series, we take a close look at a recent performance benchmark to evaluate in detail how Dell’s innovations reduce complexity, improve performance and lower the cost of VDI. Posted: 26 Apr 2011 \| Published: 26 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Desktop Virtualization \| Performance Testing \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO \| Tiered Storage \| VDI \| VMware

The Information Technology Modernization Challenge - Maintain or Innovate sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Download the new Oracle Whitepaper, The Information Technology Modernization Challenge: Maintain or Innovate and learn how Oracle Advanced Customer Services experts can help your organization drive massive efficiencies and near-term cost savings into your existing infrastructure. Posted: 16 Mar 2011 \| Published: 16 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| TCO

HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Servers in Highly Available Linux Environments sponsored by HP and Intel WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and discover the benefits of running the HP DL980 on the Linux operating system. Chief among these is the lower cost inherent in a clustered Linux environment. Posted: 08 Feb 2011 \| Published: 08 Feb 2011 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Clustering \| Data Migration \| High Availability \| Processor Architectures \| Server Consolidation \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| TCO

Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper is written for BI technical professionals and provides an in-depth overview of the Oracle BI Foundation Suite functional capabilities and technical architecture. Posted: 27 Jan 2011 \| Published: 27 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Dashboards \| Database Administration \| Database Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Reporting Software \| TCO

Copiun Data Manager: Solving Endpoint Data Backup, Recovery, and Management sponsored by Copiun WHITE PAPER: Continuous protection and the increasing requirement to enable eDiscovery is absent in many traditional enterprise storage approaches. To know that your endpoint data is iron-clad, easy to manage, and searchable, even for thousands of users, you need a solution built from the start with all corporate stakeholders in mind. Posted: 17 Jan 2011 \| Published: 17 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Endpoint Security \| Enterprise \| Laptop Computers \| SLA \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| TCO

BI Optimization: Building a Better Business Case for BI sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition. Posted: 16 Dec 2010 \| Published: 16 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business IT Alignment \| Data Integration \| Data Warehouses \| Infrastructure Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| TCO

Measuring the TCO of Tape Storage Solutions sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This tutorial presents a framework and financial methodology for deciding whether an enterprise should replace its current "status quo" tape storage solution with a new "proposed" solution, and the economics related to that decision. Posted: 01 Oct 2010 \| Published: 01 Oct 2010 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Financial Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Libraries \| TCO \| WAN

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TCO DEFINITION (continued): … 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 performs calculations on extended costs for any purchase - these are called fully burdened costs. For the consumer's purchase of a computer, the fully burdened cost may include costs of purchase, repairs, maintenance, and upgrades. …
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