IT Spending Research
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Using Server-Based Networks to Meet your Small Business Challenges
Sponsored by: DELL TECHNOLOGIES AND MICROSOFTToday'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.
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Do I Need a Server? If you’re looking to grow your small business, make sure you have the right tools
Sponsored by: DELL TECHNOLOGIES AND MICROSOFTWhether 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.
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Online Trial: Rational System Architect
Sponsored by: IBMTry 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.
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eBook: HP IT Service Management - Optimizing Service Lifecycle Delivery and Cost
Sponsored by: HP IncMany 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.
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Marin County Upgrades Tax System While Reducing the Costs of the Mainframe
Sponsored by: Micro Focus, LtdThe 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.
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Case Study: DaimlerChrysler South Africa - Migrating Mission Critical Application Achieving Over 50% Cost Savings and Improving Service Levels
Sponsored by: Micro Focus, LtdIn 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.
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The IT Management Software Megavendors
Sponsored by: BMC Software, Inc.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.
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Dell Software Inventory & Usage Management
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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...
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The Need for Profitability and Cost Management
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationAs 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.
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Dell PowerEdge Half-height M610 and Full-height M710 Blade Servers
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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Optimizing the Datacenter for Cost and Efficiency
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®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.
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Presentation Transcript: Reduce IT Costs by Rationalizing Your Application Portfolio
Sponsored by: Informatica CorporationRead 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.
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Large School District Weighs TCO of Microsoft
Sponsored by: MicrosoftIn 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..
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Virtualizing the Infrastructure with Sun x86 Blades
Sponsored by: Sun Microsystems, Inc.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.
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Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions
Sponsored by: Emerson Network PowerThis 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.
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Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership for Endpoint Security Solutions
Sponsored by: SophosWhen 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.
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The Potential ROI of a Remote Support Solution via the SaaS Model Presentation Transcript
Sponsored by: GoToAssistIncreased 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.
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Four Principles for Reducing Storage TCO
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraThis 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.
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Presentation Transcript: Is SaaS the Future of Enterprise Security?
Sponsored by: OpenText Security SolutionsThis 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
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CSS Boosts Worker Productivity, Slashes Costs by Running Lotus Notes and Domino On Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Sponsored by: Red Hat and JBossLearn 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.
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Software Testing eZine Vol.2 - Testing Strategies for Complex Environments: Agile, SOA
Sponsored by: TechTarget Software QualityIn 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.
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Storage Magazine Online May 2009: Put Dedupe to the Test
Sponsored by: TechTarget StorageIn 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).
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Customer Success Story: Sony Online Replaces Oracle with EnterpriseDB
Sponsored by: EnterpriseDB CorporationRead 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.
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Prototyping Data Warehouses Using Visual Analytics: Presentation Transcript
Sponsored by: Tableau SoftwareRead 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.
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Simplifying Business Integration: Presentation Transcript
Sponsored by: EXTOL International, Inc.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.
