Network Management Strategies for the CIO
Cost Benefit Analysis Research
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Mobile Expense Management
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comAnalysts Rob Bamforth and Clive Longbottom advise businesses on ways to manage the cost of mobile communications.
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A Total Cost of Ownership Comparison of MongoDB & Oracle
Sponsored by: 10genIn this resource, database administrators, business executives and IT leaders will find a complete TCO analysis of Oracle Database and MongoDB, including upfront and operational costs of these platforms. Gain the information you need to make a strategic database choice by reading on.
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Edison: Competitive Management Cost Study: IBM Storwize V7000 vs. EMC VNX5500 Storage Systems
Sponsored by: IBMThis white paper analyzes the results of the Edison Competitive Management Cost Study (CMCS) methodology comparing the storage administrator efficiency of both IBM and EMC.
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Measuring ROI for online PC backup and recovery
Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard LimitedThis resource takes an exclusive look at the return on investment (ROI) of deploying online data protection, backup, and recovery in order to help you make the business case for such an investment.
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Pricing Cloud Storage
Sponsored by: TwinStrata, Inc.Learn about pay-as-you-go cloud storage options and better storage spending in this expert presentation transcript from Storage Decisions Chicago. Explore cloud storage vs. traditional systems, find out what you should consider in a cloud storage cost/benefit analysis and discover how to get discounts if you do invest!
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CW Buyer's Guide: Green Computing
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comComputer Weekly looks at technologies that can help your datacentre become cost and energy efficient in this 11 page Buyer's Guide.
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Calculating Cloud ROI : From the Customer Perspective
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThis white paper lays out a framework to help IT and business decision makers calculate the return on investment of cloud services.
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Benefits Management: How to increase the business value of your IT projects
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThis book extract explains how organisation can uses benefits management techniques to increase the value of IT projects to the business.
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Finance for IT decision makers: Making business cases
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThis extract from Michael Blackstaff's book, Finance for IT decision makers, teaches you how to make effective business and financial cases for IT projects.
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Service excellence and Managed Print Services
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comFirst class service and support is essential in a managed print service, say analysts Louella Fernandes and Clive Longbottom.
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Cloud delivers 1.7 times more ROI
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comNucleus Research evaluates the business case for running applications in the cloud.
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CW Buyer's Guide: Healthcare in IT
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThis 7 page buyer's guide looks at the future of electronic healthcare records, healthcare technology and the use of mobile technology.
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Managing Financial Performance
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Read this white paper to learn why among leading organizations there is an increasing recognition of the value of using unified enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions to measure, manage, and monitor their financial and nonfinancial performance
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ORC International Database Manageability and Productivity Cost Comparison Study: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.7
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationConducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.
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Gartner: Best practices in virtualisation
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comPhilip Dawson, Gartner VP offers best practice advice for organisations looking to virtualise their IT infrastructure.
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Cloud Computing for Business
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThis guide from the Open Group, offers advice on assessing how cloud fits into your IT organisation
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IT in the UK SMB (Small and Medium sized Business) Sector
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThis report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations.
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CW+ Quocirca report: The evolving MPS landscape
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comManaged print services (MPS) offer organisations the opportunity to control costs, reduce the complexity of managing a heterogeneous infrastructure and improve business processes.
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CW+: Compass: How benchmarking can identify IT savings
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comBenchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool.
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Presenting the Upsides and Downsides of Server Virtualization to Management
Sponsored by: Dell AppAssure Backup, Replication and Recovery SoftwareConvincing top management of the benefits of server virtualization is crucial to the success of your virtualization project. This expert e-guide breaks down the pros and cons of server virtualization, and offers advice for how to make the best business case.
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Quantifying the Costs and Benefits of Archiving Your Email and Other Electronic Content
Sponsored by: Quest Software, now a part of DellThis essential cost-benefit analysis illustrates through several use cases and examples how businesses can benefit from properly archiving electronic content and email. Discover how much time, money and energy your company should expect to save from implementing sound retention policies and capabilities.
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Database Manageability and Productivity Cost Comparison Study: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationReview this cost comparison study of Oracle Database 11g R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and uncover which technology came out on top. Find out which solution offered a 49% higher time savings, 46% more in complexity savings, and whose time savings amounted to saving $58,800 per year per database administrator.
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6 Ways to Reduce IT Expenditures in the Next 3 Years
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This paper considers six ways SMBs can trim IT costs: private clouds, storage virtualization, disaster recovery, business intelligence, backup and data protection, and Windows 7 migration via virtualization.
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Managing Costs More Effectively
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.This Ventana Research paper identifies the IT components that can be used to identify ways to improve cost management for success in today's recovering yet volatile market.
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IBM Systems Consolidation Evaluation Tool
Sponsored by: IBMThis evaluation tool provides a high level analysis of your infrastructure so you can weigh the costs against the risks of maintaining existing processes. Compare four migration scenarios and determine which makes sense for your organisation.
