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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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Document Solutions IP Faxing versus Conventional Faxing: A Critical Analysis
sponsored by Premiere Global Services
WHITE PAPER: This white paper uses examples in three industries with the heaviest fax usage - finance, healthcare, and insurance - to demonstrate costs and risks that are shared across all industries.
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 | Published: 10 Oct 2008
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The Path to Securing Enterprise Desktops: From Personal Computers to Personalized Computing
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper considers desktop virtualization, specifically as made available by VMware's VDI and ACE; it also considers the benefits and limitations of these technologies and best use cases, exemplified through user case studies.
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2007
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What You Need to Know to Become More Productive
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers several strategies for IT managers to consider in increasing company productivity.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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Learn How to Take IPTV to the Next Level with TPSDA 2.0
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the challenges operators face in next generation service delivery and how TPSDA helps operators transform their networks to realize mass-market delivery of profitable blended voice, video and data services.
Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Published: 02 Oct 2008
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IBM Cognos Pricing Makes More Projects Possible
sponsored by Cognos, an IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: IBM Cognos has a flexible and tiered pricing grid that enables companies to cost effectively deliver BI and PM benefits to more users, and more types of users.
Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Published: 02 Oct 2008
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TOPICS:  CRM | ERP | Productivity | ROI | TCO | Testing

IBM X-Architecture Blueprint: An Overview
sponsored by IBM and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Read how the X-Architecture blueprint takes a comprehensive approach - innovative hardware, software and services - to solve customer challenges through an evolving design approach to System x, BladeCenter, iDataPlex servers.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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Intel: Comparing Two- and Four-Socket Platforms for Server Virtualization
sponsored by IBM and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Which platform is the best for your virtualization projects? Read this Intel IT report to learn how various solutions compare.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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Purchasing Storage: What the Vendors Don't Want You to Know
sponsored by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: This document will help you plan to make a major storage purchase by explaining how to maximize your storage budget, how to negotiate with vendors, and how to make storage decisions without politics.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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Spansion® EcoRAM™ to Improve TCO and Power Consumption in X86 Data Centers
sponsored by Spansion, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Data centers are bursting at the seams for power, space and budget. This paper explains the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefits of a Spansion EcoRAM- based server versus traditional DRAM- based servers.
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | Published: 26 Sep 2008
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Squeezing Ongoing Costs throughout the SAP Life Cycle
sponsored by Acresso
WHITE PAPER: This document explains about the subject of squeezing ongoing costs throughout the SAP life cycle.
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | Published: 26 Sep 2008
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Simplify Your IT Infrastructure: Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper will help to determine how a blade infrastructure reduces the number of servers and storage systems you need, maximizes rack space, reduces heat buildup and increases manageability.
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 | Published: 23 Sep 2008
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The Business Case for HP BladeSystem: A Guide for Financial and IT Managers of Mid-sized Businesses
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper will help financial managers and IT managers understand the benefits of TCO to build a solid business justification for technology purchase.
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 | Published: 23 Sep 2008
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Benefits of Integrated Web Application Security
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: This paper clarifies the specific security capabilities that an ideal web application delivery solution should exhibit. It also discusses the advantages that a tightly integrated module of the Citrix NetScaler Web application delivery solution presents.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008
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Spend Analysis: Business Data Warehouse Vs. Best of Breed - The Great Debate
sponsored by Emptoris
WHITE PAPER: This paper compares the capabilities of Business Data Warehouse Vs. Best of Breed to help determine which one is the best fit for your business.
Posted: 17 Sep 2008 | Published: 17 Sep 2008
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Benchmarking your virtualization stage: Compare Your Progress to Other IT Departments
sponsored by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
WHITE PAPER: Are the virtualization challenges you face typical? This white paper draws upon a survey of your IT peers to show the typical obstacles and progress of IT shops around virtualization (e.g. technical complexities, skill set deficiencies, and cost control).
Posted: 16 Sep 2008 | Published: 16 Sep 2008
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Forrester ASE Report
sponsored by Sybase, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the financial impact of migrating to ASE 15 within their organizations.
Posted: 12 Sep 2008 | Published: 12 Sep 2008
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IBM System Storage DS Family-Telecommunications
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper learn how the IBMSystem Storage DS Family is designed to help businesses optimize storage infrastructure, leverage information, mitigate risk and enable business flexibility.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008
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Project Your Data: Featuring TS2240 and DS3200
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about IBMTotalStorage Productivity Center, an open storage infrastructure management solution designed to help reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastructure and to help improve storage capacity utilization.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008
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IBM System Storage DS Family
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this paper learn how the IBM System Storage DS Family is designed to help your company simplify its storage infrastructure, support business continuity and improve information lifecycle management.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008
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SearchSoftwareQuality.com eGuide: SOA Performance
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: This SearchSoftwareQuality.com E-Guide: SOA Performance provides expert insight into how the role of performance monitoring and management has evolved with the introduction of SOA.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008
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Business Intelligence in SAP® Environments: Understanding the Value of Complementary BI Solutions
sponsored by Business Objects
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how complementary Specialist Business Intelligence (BI) solutions can fit within a hybrid architecture strategy, whether your organization is an "SAP shop," running the majority of their processes on SAP.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008
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The Cost and Benefits of On-Demand Vs. On-Premise Procurement Software
sponsored by coupa.com
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines an approach to compute and compare the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for on-premise procurement software vs. on-demand.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008
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10 Secret Strategies to Recession-Proof Your Business
sponsored by coupa.com
WHITE PAPER: This timely white paper explains 10 Secret Strategies to Recession-Proof Your Business.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 10 Sep 2008
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Managing Unstructured Data: 10 Key Requirements
sponsored by Varonis
WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes a practical approach to identifying the right enterprise-wide data protection solution for your specific business. Learn more about these ten imperatives to know when evaluating a vendor offering.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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Preventing Data Loss: 10 Key Imperatives
sponsored by Varonis
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the Varonis approach to data protection, it centers on the notion of data governance -- a comprehensive means to see, control and audit all aspects of unstructured data access.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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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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