TCO White Papers

WHITE PAPER: The latest technologies innovations provide a big, evolutionary stride in economically superior storage designed to swiftly address mounting data challenges and changing business demands. With 3D scaling and dynamic tiering, IT leaders can dynamically scale up, scale out and scale deep for increased performance and scalability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business case a large insurance company recently put together to investigate the merits of implementing a storage virtualization solution based on IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. Continue reading to learn how storage virtualization with IBM SVC can help lower overall total cost of ownership.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. Read this white paper to learn about the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Because of the obvious total cost of ownership benefits of virtualization, virtual machines are assuming more business-critical roles in the data center. In a recent survey, more than 75% of all enterprise companies listed server virtualization as one of the top technologies they are adopting. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study and see how the latest IBM System x and BladeCenter servers powered with the new energy efficient Intel Xeon 5500 series processors offer tremendous opportunity for reducing energy consumption, shrinking your data center footprint and lowering operational costs.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle's tiered storage strategy lets you effectively manage and store data across multiple types of storage media while reducing your total cost of ownership up to 54 percent. Oracle is the only technology leader to provide a scalable, end-to-end storage solution that aligns data value with the right combination of cost, performance, and capacity.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll find both the pitfalls of virtual monitoring and management, and how to navigate the maze of competing virtual monitoring and management vendors. In the end, you'll have a clear idea of what solutions will work for you.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 29 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how new virtual learning options from the SAP® Education organization fulfill the requirements of many companies and consultants. Continue reading to learn how they reduce training investments, meet various needs, and offer a flexible learning approach.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Video is leaving the dedicated video conference room and becoming a standard communication tool and part of the individual's daily workflow. In turn, this trend is having a profound impact on the scalability requirements of the visual communication system.

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 | Published: 27 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to provide information about consolidating applications onto a single server using Oracle Solaris Containers to isolate applications and efficiently manage system resources between them.

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document is intended for IT architects, system administrators, and developers that want to understand the details of how Oracle® Solaris and SPARC® can improve your application solution environment. 

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 | Published: 25 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: As legions of mobile workers connect to their organizations' internal networks, IT leaders must find ways to enhance efficiency and simplify management of remote systems. Read this paper to learn about recent innovations in Dell™ client solutions and the Microsoft® Windows® 7 OS that enable faster, easier mobile access to networks than ever before.

Posted: 18 Aug 2010 | Published: 18 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper you'll learn how managing PCs as strategic assets, streamlining processes, and buying more-capable PCs with built-in manageability that improve productivity and security, not only reduces TCO but also delivers measurable top-line benefits year after year.

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This study illustrates the financial impact of moving from disparate and aging wiring systems to an integrated, building-wide IT connectivity infrastructure.

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 | Published: 06 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization is now beginning to deliver functional and economic benefits to nearly all classes of enterprises willing to take the virtualization plunge, down to and including organizations with just a few hundred seats.

Posted: 07 May 2010 | Published: 07 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: If you are considering upgrading from a current bladed or non-bladed server design to a next generation server, this white paper is intended to highlight some of the capabilities of the HP Integrity server blades to aid in your evaluation.

Posted: 03 May 2010 | Published: 03 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: If you are in charge of IT at a mid-size enterprise, you’re probably about to bite the bullet to add a new Storage Area Network (SAN). Why? The simple answer is that it’s a combination of challenges and opportunities. Read this paper to learn why any organization that runs more than one business server application should consider a SAN.

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 | Published: 26 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is becoming a standard IT practice. It is becoming more popular among ArcGIS customers as well. ESRI uses virtualization technologies for the development, QA and certification processes of ArcGIS Server. This paper provides an overview of virtualization and addresses some common questions regarding ArcGIS Server and virtualization.

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tools have become the best way for businesses to incorporate agility into their application development projects. This paper examines the FileMaker Platform and how it offers certain advantages over tools that use more traditional methodologies such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Salesforce.com.

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 | Published: 12 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today’s traditional IT model suffers from resources located in different, unrelated silos—leading to low utilization and gross inefficiency. Enterprise servers reside in one area of the data center and network switches and storage arrays in another. This document describes the design of - and the rationale behind - the Secure Cloud Architecture.

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 | Published: 02 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a discussion of TCO components and complexities, as well as cost analysis and business impacts that companies should consider when building a business case. This paper offers tips for assessing the total cost of ownership in delivering best practices through an in-house IT service delivery model.

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about Clerity’s unique approach to leveraging existing skill sets, application code, and administrative tools, benefiting the bottom line today and better preparing the enterprise to sustain competitive advantage in the future.

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Whether you need to scan bar codes or read RFID tags on boxes of office supplies, Motorola's mobile asset management solutions enable the easy, accurate and cost effective tracking of asset location and status-- with minimal administrative effort.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2007

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at some of the challenges that CIOs are facing in managing mobility. This is clearly becoming more complex for large enterprises as mobility penetrates more deeply into their organizations, driven by changing working practices and supported by rapidly evolving technology.

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn how a new, interconnected economy is forcing companies to manage an ever-growing information network -- and the best way to adopt new technologies to give you greater flexibility for faster growth while maintaining business integrity.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010