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The Three Ps of Evaluating Managed Network Services: Portfolio, Partnerships and ProcessesThree things you must consider when evaluating network management services: who, what and how. Sponsor: Qwest
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Cloud computing may be new, but one thing hasn’t changed: management’s insistence on justifying IT investments by return on investment and total cost of ownership. You still weigh a solution’s advantages/disadvantages and benefits/costs. This paper reviews four organizations who gained savings, productivity and innovation with Google Apps.
Cloud computing frees up budgets hand-cuffed by IT expenses. Instead of purchasing software licenses and hardware for new employees and locations, businesses simply add accounts to expand computing capacity. This paper surveys cloud computing today: What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What are its payoffs and pitfalls?
According to Forrester, "Google is setting a new price floor on email and archiving costs." (Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis, Forrester Research, Inc., January 2009). Download the independent research report comparing the costs of email from Google and other providers.
Experts agree the future of software is open. Find out more about how a smart, managed open source software strategy can transform your enterprise application development initiatives – and how to sidestep the potential pitfalls as well.
Because PC acquisition costs typically account for only 20 to 30 percent of TCO, Intel does not fixate on these costs alone. Instead, Intel aligns their PC fleet investments and management practices with their strategic goals.
IDC estimates that the average cost of deployment activities is $527 per PC, but can go as high as $700 or more depending on the time spent by IT staff and users. That is roughly 20 to 40 percent of the cost of the PC. Reducing the cost of deployment will significantly reduce the total cost of ownership - especially in combination with cost-saving features in Microsoft Windows 7.
Microsoft Windows 7 overwhelmingly met the requirements and showed improved performance and stability compared with Microsoft Windows XP. In surveys, 97 percent of users of the beta release said they would recommend the OS. A conservative total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis estimated potential net present value (NPV) of USD 11 million over three years, mainly due to lower support costs.
Enterprises should begin Windows 7 migration soon to avoid losing support for their environments from independent software vendors, even though Windows XP is supported through 2014.
This document provides guidance on how to design and architect a scalable Microsoft applications mixed workload solution on highly available VMware vSphere 4 virtual infrastructure and NetApp unified storage. It highlights the flexibility of leveraging either a Fibre Channel (FC) protocol-based storage solutions or IP-based solutions (that is, iSCSI and NFS) for hosting virtual machines, and also describes the NetApp backup and recovery solution for the Microsoft applications.
NetApp best practices cover important new features of Microsoft® HyperV™ as well as lessons learned from numerous deployments. Learn how to configure networks, set appropriate iGroups and LUN types, avoid alignment problems, and configure CSVs.
