WHITE PAPER - TCO represents the cost to the owner to build, as well as the cost over time to operate and maintain the data center, these costs are all brought back to a present value using appropriate engineering economics.
Posted: July 24, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | Security | TCO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - High-density rack-mounted servers reduce space, cooling, networking, cabling, and management costs-as well as total power consumption -compared to low-density configurations having far few servers per rack.
Posted: July 24, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Financial Services | Information Security | Productivity | Server Consolidation | TCO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an in-depth look at the three types of RFID readers available today, from general functionality to typical deployment scenarios.
Posted: July 22, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Inventory Management | RFID | RTO | TCO

CASE STUDY - This paper describes NEI's holistic approach to integrating hardware, OS, management software and services, which enabled Intellitactics to accelerate the development and launch of their SAFE appliances.
Posted: July 22, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | Hardware | Risk Management | Security | Software | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This TCO Calculator is designed to show the savings organizations can realize by migrating from Solaris 8 or 9 on Spark to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on x86 hardware.
Posted: July 22, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Linux | Microprocessors | Open Source Software | TCO | UNIX | UNIX Server Hardware

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains how HP's PolyServe File Serving Utility delivers scalable performance and capacity with high availability services at a fraction of the price of traditional NAS.
Posted: July 19, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Cluster Management | Cluster Software | Clustering | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Management | File Server Software | High Availability | Linux | NAS | Storage Appliances | Storage Consolidation | Storage Spending | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Today, most applications can efficiently run inside virtual machines (VMs), and application vendors have a responsibility to develop licensing and support policies offering virtualization compatibility without the expense of added management to...
Posted: July 18, 2008 | Published: January 22, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Downtime | Leadership | Licensing | Middleware | Server Virtualization | TCO | Vendors | VMware

PODCAST - In this expert Podcast, Nik Simpson, analyst with The Burton Group, discusses trends in green storage, distinguishing industry hype from what storage managers are actually doing in the real world.
Posted: July 16, 2008 | Premiered: July 16, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Storage | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This white paper details inefficiencies and obstacles in Accounts Payable focused around invoice capture and processing.
Posted: July 14, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Billing Services | Billing Software | Billing Systems | eCommerce | eCommerce Services | eCommerce Software | ERP | ROI | TCO

WEBCAST - Learn how Community Health Plan, a leading managed care provider serving over 225,000 people, performs real-time data replication across a WAN, dramatically improving disaster recovery effectiveness while reducing TCO.
Posted: July 14, 2008 | Premieres: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Best Practices | Continuous Data Protection | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | RTO | Storage Management | TCO | WAN

WHITE PAPER - In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. This white paper addresses five of the most important change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage.
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Compliance Best Practices | ITIL | Lotus Notes | Reporting Software | Six Sigma | SLA | SOA | TCO | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - As an industry leader in Web Content Management applications designed for the .NET environment, Sitecore's Content Management System(CMS) delivers a compelling and economical solution for capturing, organizing, storing, and producing Web-based content
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: July 10, 2008


Topics:  .NET | ActiveX | Applications Management | FTP | Microsoft Excel | Scalability Testing | SOAP | TCO | Web Content Management | XML

WHITE PAPER - Read the IDC Vendor Spotlight on Zmanda. Learn the latest user requirements, market trends and the unique role of Zmanda in bringing enterprise-scale open source backup & recovery solution to the market.
Posted: July 9, 2008 | Published: May 8, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Security | Open Source | SMBs | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO

CASE STUDY - This case study documents specify business and economic value realized by one enterprise company after its first year using new storage architecture built on Hitachi tiered storage.
Posted: July 9, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Backup Software | IT Infrastructure | ROI | Storage Architectures | Storage Management | TCO

PRODUCT LITERATURE - With HP Integrity servers, you gain an adaptable infrastructure for growth that delivers the performance and reliability you need today--together with the scalability you will need to address tomorrow's business challenges.
Posted: July 2, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Processes | ERP | NetWeaver | SAP (Product) | TCO