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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is one of the key criteria for evaluating desktop architecture. The attendee will listen to VMware and IDC talk about measuring TCO and ROI for a VMware View implementation. The presenter will cover IDC findings on real cost savings achieved by VMware View customers, the methodology used for the TCO/ROI analysis, and the tools one can leverage to customize and perform own TCO analysis.
52 days ago by VMwarePoor server utilization, deployment complexity and scalability issues increase total cost of ownership and adversely affect the organization's goals. The presenter will share all the information one need to meet all of the requirements for scalability, high availability, performance, virtualization and manageability for server consolidation. The attendee will discover the benefits of enterprise consolidation and the appropriate strategy, processes, and technology one will need to be successful.
78 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsIt's knows that driving ROI is critical to the justification of the server refresh, upgrade, or virtualization project. Faster, more powerful servers comprise one piece of the solution, but outdated networking equipment could also be slowing the data center down and preventing the company from leveraging the full benefits of virtualization/consolidation and maximizing ROI. The latest blade server modules from Sun Microsystems, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, deliver significant performance gains and energy savings, plus an innovative approach to networking that virtualizes each 10GbE port and provides high-bandwidth connectivity to each virtual server. The attendee will learn how Sun's Network Express Module technology works.
78 days ago by Sun MicrosystemsMicrosoft SharePoint natively stores both content BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects) and related metadata within the SQL database. This creates planning, operational, scalability, and performance challenges - and increases system hardware and tier-one storage costs. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to reduce the footprint of SharePoint databases by at least 95% with BlueThread's StoragePoint solution.
101 days ago by EMCReady to maximize the VMware investment by virtualizing the gateway security applications? The attendee of this webcast will find out how St. Lawrence College in Canada did just that. With a dynamic user population of more than 6,500 full-time students and 20,000 part-time registrants, all in need of email access during peak times, capacity planning was a challenge. By replacing their gateway email security software with the Trend Micro VMware Ready Virtual Appliance, St. Lawrence College was able to achieve cost savings from not only datacenter consolidation but also management and scalability.
123 days ago by VMwareSiemens - a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors - has built a worldwide reputation for innovation and technical achievement. Siemens IT Solutions and Services developed a system for remote service of more than 80,000 devices worldwide. An additional service enables its users to distribute software packages to devices spread around the globe through virtual private network connections. To make these software updates and installations more efficient, reduce costs, and deliver more complex software packages to more devices, Siemens is now able to use the Windows Azure platform for devices directly connected to the Internet. The company now can dynamically scale its global software distribution, while reducing costs, enhancing services, and avoiding significant new capital investment.
139 days ago by MicrosoftE-learning specialist Aula Salud wanted a highly available, robust, and cost-effective solution to deliver education programs with video streaming for healthcare professionals in Spain. Aula Salud chose Atnova, which offered this kind of solution based entirely on Microsoft technologies, rather than open-source development tools. With these solutions, Aula Salud achieved increased student numbers and a return on investment in the first year.
139 days ago by MicrosoftToday, more than ever, organizations must deliver the benefits of cost optimization and business agility. This Podcast series explains how that goal can be realized through dynamic Business Processes Management. The series focuses on banking, government, healthcare, insurance, cross-industry and retail.
164 days ago by IBMManagement of existing Windows Server was delegated to LG CNS, which is well-know Korea IT Service Company, and they create daily books to manually organize particulars including CPU usage rate. However, it was not easy to establish rapid failure measures because it was too expensive to receive external management services for UNIX servers. LS Industrial Systems has been thinking about re-structuring its Windows Server infrastructure since 2006. After deciding to deploy tools for integrated management of server integration and Windows Server infrastructure, LS Industrial Systems conducted comparisons and evaluations to decide on the method of integration. In this process, the LS Industrial System Information Strategic team closely compared the advantages of physical integration and using VMWare solutions.
170 days ago by MicrosoftThere are many more mountains of additional things one can do to use SAP to achieve genuine business benefit, find that "Elusive" ROI and make a real difference in the marketplace. But to get there take the first step to changing implementation approach - ; start by defining the business reason for implementation or upgrade before one even begins.
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