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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,  … 
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Video Conferencing: ROI, TCO and QOS
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EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: This E-Guide will help you develop plans and polices for video conferencing, ensuring you not only meet user demands and improve collaboration, but also deliver measureable ROI.
Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009


Storage in a Tough Economy: Five Targets for Lowering Total Cost of Ownership
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WHITE PAPER: When determining a potential storage system's TCO, you must include both capital and operating expenditures, some of which are easy to calculate and others are less obvious. Read this whitepaper to identify target areas for cost savings in your new storage system.
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Emprise™ 7000 Storage Family
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DATA SHEET: Xiotech's Emprise 7000 family of storage area network (SAN) solutions are virtual SAN systems that deliver maximum reliability, scalability, and value. Highlights include: high availability, modular scalability, and lowest TCO. Read this paper to learn more about the features and benefits of these solutions.
Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009


eBook: PPM: From Efficiency To Alignment
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EBOOK: Following project and portfolio management methodologies can help you keep a handle on costs and pursue the projects with the greatest value to the business. Here's how.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009


Choosing Your Virtualization Hardware Vendor: Seven Keys to Ensuring Success with Your Customers
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PRODUCT LITERATURE: This paper examines seven key questions you should ask yourself when choosing the prime hardware vendor for your virtualization solutions.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009


The Server Virtualization Imperative: How You Can Deliver Nine-Month ROI for Your Customers Right Now
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PRODUCT LITERATURE: A new multi-core server from Dell and powered by Intel can do the work of nine older single-core servers, while using less energy and facility space. Moreover, it can deliver return on investment (ROI) in as little as nine months. Read this paper to learn more!
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IT Briefing: Why Would You Waste Half Your Server Virtualization Budget?
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IT BRIEFING: The costs for power, cooling, server management and administration are now consuming more of IT budgets than even the cost for new hardware. In this TechTarget IT Briefing, you'll learn about Citrix Essentials, Intel Xeon 5500, and HP ProLiant G6 for XenServer.
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Enterprise Grid Solutions from Sun and Oracle: Taking IT to a Higher Level
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PRODUCT LITERATURE: If you're already running your business on an enterprise grid—good. And if you're running on Sun and Oracle—even better. But if you want to maximize the advantages of your grid, it's time to upgrade to the latest generation of enterprise grid computing products from Sun and Oracle.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009


Optimizing Business Service Management (BSM) in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency
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WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
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Intel IT Technology Center
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CRM Built for IT: The Executive Guide to Selecting CRM that Meets IT Needs
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WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides everything the CIO and IT team must know to evaluate a CRM system based on the critical business and technical issues that matter to IT directors and chief information and technology officers.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009


Leveraging Virtualisation for a Competitive Edge Improve Application Availability and Resource Provisioning
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WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009


E-Book: Five Technology Trends for Improved Business Intelligence Performance
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EBOOK: In this E-Book, data warehousing and BI expert Rick Sherman explains how you can take advantage of BI trends to ensure that you get the right information to the right people at the right times, so they can make the best possible decisions.
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Advancing your SAP Netweaver: Maximize the value of SAP Netweaver with Atos Origin
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WHITE PAPER: Enterprises that embrace SAP NetWeaver early will gain a tremendous competitive advantage. And by using the proven experience of Atos Origin nothing is left to chance. Atos Origin will provide transparency regarding the costs and benefits and help turn your vision into results using our proven global SAP expertise and integration experience.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009


Optimizing Your SAP
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WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and learn how Atos Origin, the number one SAP upgrade partner and has over 20 years experience of upgrading SAP systems we have upgraded every R/3 release from 2.0 upwards, can help you bring your SAP system to where it needs to be.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009


Advance Your Data Management: Reduce Cost and Risk through the effective and efficient Management of Master Data
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WHITE PAPER: Effective and efficient management of master data within the manufacturing sector is a key factor in reducing TCO, providing accurate global spend analysis and improved reporting and decision making. Implementing SAP's Master Data Management solution into an organization enables the backbone of a complete data governance model to be established.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009


eGuide: The Green Data Center: Understanding Energy Regulations, Power Consumption and More
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EGUIDE: Today’s businesses are being pushed to consolidate their data centers, address power consumption and implement virtualization in an effort to reduce operating costs and go green. But what are the best routes to achieving these objectives?
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009


Operational efficiency — how to save big with BMC Software
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WHITE PAPER: As the business demands more from your tight IT budget, it's helpful to know that you can actually fund the IT improvements your business needs from savings generated by improvements in operational efficiency. Read a short overview of how BMC Solutions drive operational efficiency.
Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009


SAP Business Transformation Study: ConAgra Foods
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CASE STUDY: ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's largest packaged food companies. With the help of SAP and SmartOps, the company was able to tackle its key challenges in making its supply chain more efficient. Read this case study to learn about the challenges ConAgra faced along with the benefits achieved from implementing SAP and SmartOps solutions.
Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009


Giving Service Companies a Fast Start
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WHITE PAPER: Learn how the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start program can provide service companies like yours with a software solution that helps you respond quickly to customers' expectations of high-quality, differentiated services to help you maintain services relationships - with predictable costs, and low total cost of ownership.
Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009


The Intelligent Choice for Microsoft® Windows Server Virtualization
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DATA SHEET: To fully benefit from Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V and Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) technology, a fully engineered virtualization solution is needed, that is both cost effective and easy to manage whilst simultaneously ensuring high availability with enterprise performance and stability.
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Are You Ready for Economic Bounce Back?
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WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the concept that preparing for economic recovery is not something that can wait; it is something that businesses should plan for now. It will introduce enterprise application migration strategies that can be considered within any organization and also emphasize the importance of forward thinking and planning in down economy.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009


Case Study: DaimlerChrysler South Africa - Migrating Mission Critical Application Achieving Over 50% Cost Savings and Improving Service Levels
sponsored by Micro Focus, Ltd
CASE STUDY: In October 2003, DaimlerChrysler South Africa decided that significant cost savings could be achieved by migrating its mission critical systems onto a contemporary low cost platform and in the process remove the mainframe. This case study presents the challenges the company faced as well as the solution and benefits achieved.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009


Best Practices for Virtualizing Distributed Environments: Enterprise-Class Virtualization for Remote Office and Branch Office Infrastructures
sponsored by VM6 Software
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009


Distributed IT Infrastructures: Alternative Approaches
sponsored by VM6 Software
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

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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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