IT Spending Reports

WHITE PAPER: Today's server technology is surprisingly affordable and user-friendly and well worth your attention. Read this paper to learn about key benefits a server-based network can bring to your business.

Posted: 16 Dec 2009 | Published: 09 Jul 2007

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Whether they know it or not, many small businesses can benefit greatly from adding a centralized server to their network. In this article, you'll read about many of these benefits.

Posted: 15 Dec 2009 | Published: 15 Dec 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Try IBM® Rational® System Architect® V11.3, which enables business managers and IT professionals to plan, model, and execute changes to improve their business strategy and process as well as the IT systems and infrastructure that support them, enabling successful enterprise planning and transformation.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 04 Nov 2009

EBOOK: Many IT professionals are looking to IT Service Management (ITSM) to deliver quality IT services that meet the needs of the business under these tough conditions. Regardless of the size of your business, you can deliver superior service quality to your business with the HP approach to ITSM and the HP software and services that support it.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: The property tax system for Marin County, California, was increasingly expensive to maintain; furthermore, it was not possible to integrate it with newer modern technologies. Read this case study to learn how they updated and modernized this critical application without losing valuable IT assets embedded in the current system.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: The Dell Software Inventory & Usage Management service automates software and hardware asset discovery and reporting, monitors software usage and helps simplify software license compliance helping managers to control IT costs, reduce software license compliance risks, and make informed decisions regarding software purchasing...

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: As indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. When combined with Dell's world-class storage, management, and support offerings, the result is a total enterprise solution that can help you simplify and save on IT expenses.

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009

ANALYST REPORT: The current state of the datacenter, demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Today, lowering the energy and administration/management costs are two key focus areas of datacenter managers in the Asia/Pacific region.

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript of the webcast "Reduce IT Costs by Rationalizing Your Application Portfolio" to learn the best practices of application retirement and how to effectively retire legacy applications and reduce IT costs while still having the ability to simply and efficiently access the retired data.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

CASE STUDY: In response to deepening budget challenges, Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) sought to reduce IT related expenses. OCPS conducted a study to compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of different productivity suite software alternatives, in particular the 2007 Microsoft® Office system and open source software (OSS) alternatives..

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This white paper looks at ongoing customer requirements for server platforms and a number of pain points that have developed in recent years, as computer systems have become packed more densely within the datacenter. Read on to learn how Sun Microsystems can help.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

ANALYST REPORT: When moving to an endpoint security solution, should you stick with your current vendor or shop around? To shed some light on this issue, Sophos commissioned an independent research study to quantify all of the cost areas involved in migrating to an endpoint security product and managing that solution afterward to create a TCO comparison.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Mar 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Increased productivity, better customer interactions and quicker response times are all benefits of using SaaS-based remote support solutions. But how do you quantify these savings? This presentation transcript will address the real dollar savings of using this model and the potential for ROI.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shares proven strategies for storage infrastructure cost reduction. You will uncover four keys to minimizing storage costs and maximizing return on assets based on the tried and tested Storage Economics framework.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript discusses how The Web has become a primary attack vector most businesses are not yet prepared for. Compliance and data leakage are a growing concern, and the economic downturn is causing every organization to re-evaluate its spending on personnel and IT resources and how SaaS may just be the answer to these

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009

CASE STUDY: Learn how leading provider of global technology operations management services, Cybernet-SlashSupport (CSS), migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux® from Microsoft Windows and dramatically improved application performance and improved productivity while freeing up IT resources.

Posted: 18 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009

EZINE: In this issue of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's Software Testing eZine, we'll discuss a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a new testing environment as well as an Agile software development (ASD) methodology.

Posted: 06 May 2009 | Published: 06 May 2009

EZINE: In this month's Storage Magazine Online cover story, our resident backup expert, W. Curtis Preston, shows how to test various systems against your data so you can make the right decisions. Plus, check out features on recession-proof storage tips, four-tier storage design, and Continuous Data Protection (CDP).

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this customer success story to discover why Sony Online Entertainment replaced it's existing Oracle database solution with EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus® Advanced Server, providing enhanced performance, scalability, and cost savings.

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 | Published: 29 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript of the “Prototyping Data Warehouses using Visual Analytics” webinar that includes a case study demonstrating how the City of Charlotte is administering Tableau Server to reduce IT intervention, reduce costs and increase collaboration between business units.

Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | Published: 09 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Complexity in business integration can be a serious impairment to any SMB, or even large company, in today's economy. Read this Presentation Transcript of the “Simplifying Business Integration” webcast to learn how to properly manage business integration with the right strategies.

Posted: 06 Apr 2009 | Published: 06 Apr 2009