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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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.
WEBCAST: Posted: 18 Apr 2008 | When: Available On Demand
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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.
WEBCAST: Posted: 16 Apr 2008 | When: Available On Demand
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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.
WEBCAST: Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | When: Available On Demand
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Learn how IT can maintain high service levels previously delivered by software from HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli but at significant cost savings.
WEBCAST: Posted: 27 Mar 2008 | When: Available On Demand
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In this Q&A interview with server virtualization expert Rick Vanover, get advice on getting strong ROI and TCO results when using blades as a virtualization platform. View this webcast or download the corresponding podcast to learn more.
WEBCAST: Posted: 26 Mar 2008 | When: Available On Demand
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View this Webcast to find out more about virtualization 2.0, the numerous benefits it delivers and the impact virtualization 2.0 will have on businesses today.
PODCAST: Posted: 12 Mar 2008 | Premiered: 11 Mar 2008
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This Podcast discusses traditional NAS technologies and explains how new, next-generation NAS solutions are making an impact on storage today. Download the Podcast to learn more.
WEBCAST: Posted: 12 Mar 2008 | When: Available On Demand
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This Webcast discusses traditional NAS technologies and explains how new, next-generation NAS solutions are making an impact on storage today. View the Webcast to learn more.
PODCAST: Posted: 29 Feb 2008 | Premiered: 29 Feb 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
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In this podcast, expert Zeus Kerravala will explain how you can make today's hottest collaboration tools work for your organization, without sacrificing bandwidth.
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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