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Dell launches high performance 2U desktop that lives in the data center
With the Precision R5400, Dell has opted for performance over space savings and cost trimming for its data center-hosted desktop solution. See why there might be an interesting ROI case to be made for all this computing power. by Jason Hiner
Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, High-performance, Precision R5400, Workstations, Data Centers, Desktops, Roi/Tco, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-07-24
Four ways to reduce energy costs and environmental impact
With green IT, it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to make an impact in your organization. Here are four ways to get started and see the impact on ROI. by Scott Lowe
Tags: Desktop, Disk, Data Center, SAN, ROI, Server Consolidation Project, Server Consolidation, Roi/Tco, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Storage, Data Management, Scott Lowe
Blog posts 2008-07-21
ROI equation for development projects: What not to forget
When measuring your development project's ROI, it's important to go beyond the basic calculation. Here are a few important costs and returns that you may have overlooked. by Justin James
Tags: Revenue, Project, ROI, Salary, Development Project, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Justin James
Blog posts 2008-07-18
Re-organizing? Don't bungle it
In the past week, I've had conversations with two companies regarding their plans to reduce headcount and re-organize how they do business. This leads me to think that there must be a great deal of discussion in many companies about the same thing currently. We are...
Tags: Decision, Exec, Roi/Tco, Leadership, E-mail, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Online Communications, John McKee
Blog posts 2008-04-03
Sanity check: Seven hot acronyms IT pros are talking about
IT professionals adore acronyms and shorthand. That's one of the reasons why normal people think IT pros are speaking a foreign language when we talk amongst ourselves. If you want to keep up with trends in IT management for 2008, familiarize yourself with this list of hot acronyms that your...
Tags: Business Intelligence, Information Technology, CMDB, BPM Business Process Management, BI Business Intelligence, TCO Total Cost Of Ownership, SOA Service-Oriented Architecture, ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library, ITIL, Strategy, Roi/Tco, It Services, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-02-03
Western Digital's green hard drives
Western Digital announced its Serial ATA SATA drives that consume 40% less power than competing drives. An excerpt from Techworld: Western Digital believes that large datacentres could save up to $100,000 annually if they used 10,000 of these new drives rather than ones from other suppliers....
Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., Serial ATA, Roi/Tco, Storage, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-11-21
Start a recovery project to rescue a troubled project
If a project is big enough to require a formal project turnaround, the first thing that needs to happen is that you have to recognize that the work to recover the troubled project is a project by itself. When a project is in trouble, usually an outside party is...
Tags: Tom Mochal, Project management, troubled project, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Recovery, Roi/Tco, Corporate Communications, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Management
Technical articles 2005-06-07
Incoherent e-mail infrastructures are costing large banks millions
A recent study finds that the majority of IT directors in the financial services industry can't adequately calculate their total costs for e-mail. Mark Vernon tells you why you should re-evaluate your current e-mail infrastructure and get a handle on how much money you might be wasting on inefficient administration...
Tags: Mark Vernon, Financial Service IT Newsletter, Bank, Financial, Financial Service, British Telecommunications, Messaging, TCO, Survey, E-mail, Roi/Tco, Groupware, Online Communications, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software
Technical articles 2001-05-31
Thin Clients: Secure and Cost Effective Client Access Devices for Government Organizations
The Vision of Government of India, for making Citizen services accessible to the common man, is slowly shaping up. Most of the Government enterprises are investing on IT and ICT resources. Almost all of the Government departments have series of Personal Computers, which they use as Client access devices for...
Tags: Microsoft Access, Thin Client, Thin Clients, Roi/Tco, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2007-12-21
Conserving Energy in Conventional Disk Based RAID Systems
Energy-efficiency is becoming increasingly important for storage systems to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership TCO. This paper proposes an energy saving policy named eRAID for conventional disk based RAID-1 systems using redundancy. In particular, a dynamic performance control scheme is developed with the help of a performance predictor based...
Tags: Rice University, Disk, Performance, Mirroring, RAID, Performance Management, Roi/Tco, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2007-03-20
Inova Q Embeds Performance, Scalability, Availability, and Low Cost of Ownership Into Flagship Product
Inova Q wanted to meet the needs of IQ-Logistik customers for unrivalled system performance, reliability, flexibility, data security, and scalability and build IQ-Logistik on a world-leading infrastructure capable of supporting clients' mission-critical business processes. The challenge was to ensure low cost of ownership TCO while minimizing development costs to enable...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, TCO, Inova Q, Roi/Tco, Performance Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Case studies 2008-06-01
Southern Illinois Healthcare Relies on FirePass SSL VPN for Easy-to-Use Remote Access While Meeting Strict Regulatory and Security Compliance
SIH needed to provide secure remote access to employees, physicians, and technology vendors. Employees needed to work from home or while traveling on business. IT staff required the ability to provide emergency support or assistance outside of normal business hours. SIH required a manageable VPN solution with extremely fast implementation,...
Tags: F5 Networks Inc., VPNs, Network Security, Roi/Tco, Remote Access, Telecommunications, Networking, Security, Finance, Managerial Accounting
Case studies 2008-04-03
Wholesale Distributor Uses WMS to Double Inventory Turns and Optimize Warehouse Space Utilization
Arthur Schuman is the largest importer of Italian and Italian style hard grading cheeses in the United States. Arthur Schuman needed a solution to support their 10% annual sales growth and aggressive acquisitions strategy. In order to manage this growth, they needed to optimize warehouse space utilization, improve inventory accuracy,...
Tags: RedPrairie, Arthur Schuman, Sales Strategy, Roi/Tco, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Sales, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
Case studies 2007-05-02
Characterising Sun Ray Thin Client Performance
Thin clients have different performance characteristics to traditional "Fat" clients, and there are workloads with which they may struggle. Added to the mix can be many layers of software, each with its own set of performance foibles. Since thin clients are often deployed in situations where Total Cost of Ownership...
Tags: Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Client, Sun Ray, Thin Clients, Performance Management, Roi/Tco, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2006-02-13
Viewpointe Revolutionizes the Banking Industry, One Payment at a Time
Viewpointe has achieved success by developing an open, scalable archive solution that enables multiple companies to store infinite amounts of documents within the same platform - making the sharing of critical information possible. The company wanted to obtain a secure, flexible, and scalable solution and ensure bandwidth availability, performance, and...
Tags: Solution, Payment, Verizon Communications Inc., Viewpointe, Roi/Tco, VPNs, Networking, Banking, Network Security, Telecommunications, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Financial Services
Case studies 2007-07-01
Marcus & Millichap Sharpens Reporting with BusinessObjects Edge
"With BusinessObjects, we can provide our management team, agents, and clients with the timely and accurate data they need to assess current market conditions. By standardizing on SAP and BusinessObjects, we can enable our clients to accelerate and improve their decision-making processes, ultimately maximizing their return on investment." ...
Tags: Decision-making, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Roi/Tco, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
Case studies 2008-05-05
Thin Computing ROI: The Untold Story
Thin computing is the complete spectrum of hardware, services, and software solutions that allow people using thin clients, PCs, wireless devices, and other systems to securely access the information and the applications they need. Enterprise thin clients, the desktop component of thin computing are one of the least understood hardware...
Tags: ROI, Computing, International Data Group, Roi/Tco, Thin Clients, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
White papers 2005-11-01
County Government Office Takes Charge of Network With Test Server, Increases TCO $5K
Butler County government offices of Allison, Iowa, strive to serve residents in an efficient and effective manner. Butler County government offices of Allison, Iowa, strive to serve residents in an efficient and effective manner. Ideally, it wanted a basic server environment on which to test all government-specific software, and a...
Tags: Network, Microsoft Office, Server, TCO, Iowa, Government, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Roi/Tco, Vertical Industries, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software
Case studies 2008-04-15
The Evolving Role of the Business Analyst: The Business Rules Analyst Emerges as a New Star in the Business World
Traditionally, the business analyst has been responsible for analyzing the business needs of companies by identifying business problems and proposing solutions. With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, the business analyst has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier...
Tags: Business Analyst, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Roi/Tco, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2008-06-03
How to Develop Your CMDB Project's ROI
While long-term ROI claims from enterprise customers oftentimes can exceed up to 400% or more, many IT executives are struggling with making initial ROI assessments for their Configuration Management Database CMDB project. While the CMDB is well-established as a foundational element for both advancing proactive IT management and overall ITIL...
Tags: CMDB, ROI, ASG Software Solutions, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
Webcasts 2008-09-18


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