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TCO

ALSO CALLED: IT TCO, Cost of Ownership, Cost Savings Calculators, Total Cost of Ownership, Cost Calculators, and 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  … 
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What SMBs Should Look for in an Applicant Tracking System
sponsored by Taleo
WHITE PAPER: The goal of this paper is to enumerate many of the qualities that SMBs seek in an applicant tracking system and prepare you to choose a system that will make your recruiting efforts more successful.
Posted: 06 Jan 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008
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IT Briefing: Why Blades?
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: This document describes the benefits of blades, the major reasons why users have moved to blades, and why an organization might think about moving to blades in its environment.
Posted: 04 Jan 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2008
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Reduce Functional, Regression and Performance Testing Costs across Your End-to-end Oracle Siebel Application Environment
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: The Siebel Business Process Testing Accelerator from Infosys and HP helps you substantially reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by cutting down on the test maintenance costs and substantially reducing testing cycle time.
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Published: 23 Dec 2008
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Storage Economics Podcast: Ideas and Tactics to Reduce Storage Total Cost of Ownership
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
PODCAST: David Merrill, Chief Storage Economist at Hitachi Data Systems, discusses concepts and principles around storage TCO, ideas and tactics to reduce the cost of your storage architecture, and what the analysts are saying about storage...
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 24 Dec 2008
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IDC Executive Brief: Storage Economics - Assessing the Real Cost of Storage
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
WHITE PAPER: Read the IDC report to discover a comprehensive financial model for analyzing storage TCO, developed by Hitachi Data Systems. This report outlines how companies can benchmark TCO and then introduce technologies and processes to drive improved ROI and TCO.
Posted: 23 Dec 2008 | Published: 22 Dec 2008
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The Benefits of Running VMware VI3 on Cisco MDS Optimized SAN
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this Cisco MDS and VMware Joint whitepaper that describes the innovative approach to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, scalable, and mobile.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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Oracle VM: Performance Evaluation of Oracle VM Server Virtualization Software
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Your server virtualization plan is probably not enabling optimal server utilization, efficiency, and scalability levels. Read this white paper to learn about a Linux technology that offers superior performance and scalability.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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Virtualization and Business Agility: How to Create a Virtual Strategy for Real Success
sponsored by VMware and Intel
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This paper explains how your organization can craft a virtualization strategy to help reduce TCO, achieve business agility, improve competitive advantage and survive tough economic times.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008
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Essential Questions for Evaluating ESM Solutions
sponsored by eIQnetworks
WHITE PAPER: This document acts as an evaluation tool to help you navigate the security management marketplace by quickly drilling into key questions that will help you address vendor claims.
Posted: 16 Dec 2008 | Published: 15 Dec 2008
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HP Network Node Manager i Software: Migration ROI Handbook
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Network management tools deliver value across two core value propositions: increased service levels and reduced costs.
Posted: 15 Dec 2008 | Published: 12 Dec 2008
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Virtualization in SAP environments
sponsored by VMware and Intel
PODCAST: Learn how to craft a virtualization strategy optimized for an SAP enterprise applications environment.
Posted: 12 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 12 Dec 2008
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Dell Services for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
PRODUCT LITERATURE: Many organizations are turning to a virtual server infrastructure to help address common challenges of improving manageability and resource utilization. New ways are being sought to reduce the total cost of ownership of server infrastructure.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008
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Going Green While Reducing Operational Costs, an Interview with Joe Clabby
sponsored by IBM
VIDEO: Joe reveals what technology he feels will have the biggest influence on the data center's costs and what else enterprises can do besides dumping air for water cooling.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 10 Dec 2008
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Virtualization and Business Agility: How to create a virtual strategy for real success
sponsored by VMware and Intel
WEBCAST: In this Webcast, learn how your organization can craft a virtualization strategy to help reduce TCO, achieve business agility, improve competitive advantage and survive tough economic times.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Virtualization Overview
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008
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Online Training Case Study
sponsored by SyberWorks, Inc.
CASE STUDY: The operations division in a large multibillion-dollar service company had significant challenges training its franchisees to overcome these challenges the company purchased and installed the SyberWorks Training Center with a 250-seat license.
Posted: 08 Dec 2008 | Published: 08 Dec 2008
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Presentation Transcript: Changing the SQL Landscape through Consolidation
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Learn why HP Integrity is the ideal platform for business-critical SQL consolidation and helps deliver improvements in space and energy usage, flexibility and manageability, while lowering your overall TCO.
Posted: 08 Dec 2008 | Published: 08 Dec 2008
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Ensuring Enterprise-Wide Compliance
sponsored by Infor
WHITE PAPER: A key element of any labor compliance program is improving the accuracy, auditability, and consistency of workforce management processes-employee forecasting and scheduling, time and attendance, and workforce reporting.
Posted: 05 Dec 2008 | Published: 05 Dec 2008
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Easy Integration of Microsoft Office Excel with the SAP Business Suite for Financial Data
sponsored by Winshuttle, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how SAP customers use Winshuttle solutions to automate the shuttling of financial data between Microsoft Excel and SAP transactions.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Choosing a Solution for Web-Filtering: Software, Appliance, Managed Service?
sponsored by MessageLabs
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper for a better look at managed web security services that enable businesses to set up and enforce acceptable usage policies that are flexible, fit-for-purpose and accommodate evolving needs and priorities.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Email Security Buyer's Guide: Software, Appliance, Managed Service?
sponsored by MessageLabs
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper for a buyer's guide to email security solutions that offer protection of business continuity, data and brand image, effective implementation of email policies and regulatory compliance at national and global levels.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Squeezing More Value out of Data Warehouses through the Power of Database Compression
sponsored by Vertica Systems
WHITE PAPER: Data compression features in data warehouse databases are the current trend, and this paper explains the benefits of compression in data warehousing and differentiates compression approaches taken by different databases.
Posted: 03 Dec 2008 | Published: 03 Dec 2008
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Best Practices for Data Loading into SAP ERP Systems
sponsored by Winshuttle, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines existing data-loading methods and best practices to easily incorporate data into SAP solutions.
Posted: 03 Dec 2008 | Published: 03 Dec 2008
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Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization with Dell and Citrix
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WEBCAST: Join us for this live eSeminar to learn important considerations in your virtualized server and storage environments.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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TCO DEFINITION (continued): …  cost of purchase, all things considered. When you decide to buy a computer you may go through a TCO analysis: for example, 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 … 
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