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.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 25 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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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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This IT Briefing discusses traditional NAS technologies and explains how new, next-generation NAS solutions are making an impact on storage today. Read this IT Briefing to learn more about the future of NAS technologies and what they will mean for you.
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This white paper examines the business considerations of implementing deduplication, including the key components of a data deduplication ROI analysis and a list of questions every organisation should ask potential vendors.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 08 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2005
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This white paper examines the challenge of keeping a lid on enterprise software costs, explores how an effective training platform can help reduce enterprise software TCO.
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An emerging alternative model for services-oriented architecture (SOA) deployment includes a network-embedded SOA backbone that provides IT system interoperability for corporate-wide security and regulatory compliance.
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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