WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn about Clerity’s unique approach to leveraging existing skill sets, application code, and administrative tools, benefiting the bottom line today and better preparing the enterprise to sustain competitive advantage in the future.
Posted: March 17, 2010 | Published: March 17, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Applications Management | Data Migration | Data Security | Infrastructure Management | IT Management | Mainframe Operating Systems | Security | SOA | TCO | Transaction Processing Services

WHITE PAPER - IT at Intel decided to execute an accelerated server refresh strategy, replacing aging servers in 2009 with new servers based on Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. They were able to achieve a consolidation ratio ranging from 7:1 to 13:1 depending on workload and other factors, while substantially reducing energy consumption.
Posted: March 15, 2010 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Data Center Management | IT Spending | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | TCO

ANALYST BRIEF - In this document, we analyze the lifetime cost of ownership for a typical on-premises SME business management system and compare it to the cost of an equivalent SAP Business ByDesign implementation.
Posted: March 12, 2010 | Published: March 12, 2010


Topics:  Application Hosting | Business Management | Business Process Management | Cloud Computing | CRM | Hosting Services | SAP (Product) | Software as a Service | TCO

WHITE PAPER - BI solutions provide organizations with the insight required to make critical business decisions. This paper outlines how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) BI outperforms traditional and open source BI solutions by offering greater TCO advantages via automation, easier integration and lower staffing costs thus enabling faster, easier BI deployments.
Posted: March 12, 2010 | Published: March 11, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Cloud Computing | Open Source | SaaS ERP | Software as a Service | Staffing | TCO

WHITE PAPER - As enterprises continue to produce, store, and make use of business content, volume grows and the investment needed to manage complexity increases. Yet much of this content remains difficult to manage and access. Read this white paper to learn how Google search solutions can boost your bottom line in today's business climate.
Posted: March 11, 2010 | Published: March 11, 2010


Topics:  Applications Management | CRM | Data Storage | Enterprise Content Management | ERP | Information Management | ROI | TCO | Unstructured Data | User Experience

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the Five Drivers of Change which cause organizations to consider a new ERP. If you decide to keep your current system you risk falling behind technologically and functionally. There are consequences for not keeping up to date as well. This white paper will help you consider your options.
Posted: March 10, 2010 | Published: March 10, 2010


Topics:  Dashboards | Enterprise Systems | ERP | ERP Software | Legacy Applications Software | Reporting Software | TCO | Workflow Software

WHITE PAPER - Testing and analysis demonstrated that the newest high-end Intel® Xeon® processors based on Next-Generation Intel® Microarchitecture (Nehalem) can significantly enhance server performance, providing an opportunity for Intel IT to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by 42 percent.
Posted: March 8, 2010 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Computing | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Spending | Microprocessors | ROI | Server Hardware | TCO

EBOOK - Some IT managers have steered clear of server virtualization technologies because the deployment process can seem too daunting to begin. But this step-by-step handbook maps out the deployment process in four easy-to-follow steps.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: March 5, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | Microsoft Hyper-V | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Systems Management | TCO | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides an overview of the challenges businesses face today and how IT addresses the explicit need to manage network costs, provide choice and flexibility and reduce complexity.
Posted: March 4, 2010 | Published: February 2, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Centers | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Management Software | Network Performance | ROI | TCO

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this presentation transcript to learn about different data center expansion options. Discover the pros and cons of colocation, cloud computing and IT outsourcing and determine which model is best for your organization.
Posted: March 2, 2010 | Published: March 2, 2010


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Co-Location Facilities | Co-Location Services | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | IT Management | IT Outsourcing Services | IT Spending | ROI | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Market research leader TNS conducted a total cost of ownership (TCO) study for HP to determine how its BladeSystem c-Class offering compared with rack-based offerings from Sun Microsystems. This white paper re-examines the issues around rack-vs.-blade TCO in the context of recent changes on the processor front.
Posted: March 2, 2010 | Published: March 2, 2010


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - In this whitepaper, we look at several examples where significant cost savings are demonstrated and the cost of purchase of security information and event management (SIEM) technology has been realized in short periods of time following the SIEM implementation.
Posted: March 2, 2010 | Published: March 2, 2010


Topics:  Compliance (Finance) | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Fraud Protection | Legacy Applications Software | Reporting Software | ROI | TCO

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - In this technical brief we provide an overview of the reasons Data Center Bridging (DCB) is being developed and how it can improve networking in the data center for applications, servers, and storage.
Posted: February 25, 2010 | Published: November 3, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Ethernet Networks | Ethernet Protocols | Fibre Channel | iSCSI Protocol | Network Management | TCO

WEBCAST - In this webinar learn how you can use RightScale and New Relic to launch and monitor your Rails app on the cloud.
Posted: February 25, 2010 | Premiered: February 25, 2010


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Life-Cycle Management | Application Monitoring | Cloud Computing | Performance Testing | Platform as a service | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper for a discussion of the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best‐practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy.
Posted: February 25, 2010 | Published: February 23, 2010


Topics:  Data Management | HIPAA Compliance | Information Management | SAP (Product) | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance | TCO