WHITE PAPER - Did you know most companies adopt cloud for anywhere access, not for its cost-cutting potential? According to an independent global survey, 82% of companies save by adopting cloud, but most save less than 20,000 U.S. dollars. Explore more about the real drivers and benefits behind the adoption of cloud computing in this exclusive summary.
Posted: February 2, 2012 | Published: February 2, 2012


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cloud Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Private Cloud | Public Cloud | ROI | Surveys

ASSESSMENT TOOL - The Managed File Transfer benefit calculator shows you how much FTP is really costing you. Answer the questions to generate a customized benefit report that provides insight into areas of potential cost savings, metrics that help make an ROI business case, and examples of how other companies have saved with Managed File Transfer.
Posted: January 27, 2012 | Published: January 27, 2012


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | File Management Programs | File Transfer Protocols | IT Management | IT Managers | ROI

IT BRIEFING - This 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.
Posted: January 4, 2012 | Published: January 4, 2012


Topics:  CIOs | Cloud Computing | Cost Benefit Analysis | CRM | Management of Change | Mobile Workers | ROI | Small Businesses | Vendor Selection | Vendors

IT BRIEFING - Examine the economic costs and benefits of cloud-based applications. Learn how cloud-based applications can help your organization solve ongoing business challenges such as collaboration, high operation costs and scalability. In addition, explore how you can prepare to transition to cloud computing now.
Posted: December 23, 2011 | Published: December 23, 2011


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Cost Benefit Analysis | Private Cloud | Public Cloud

WEBCAST - Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as a cost reduction/containment strategy. Learn how to justify your cloud investment and realize the short and long-term financial benefits.
Posted: December 1, 2011 | Premiered: December 1, 2011


Topics:  Applications Management | Cloud Computing | Cost Benefit Analysis | Private Cloud | Public Cloud | ROI

WHITE PAPER - This white paper is a lab test report of a solution that integrates the function of primary storage, de-duplication, cloud backup, automated cloud archiving & tiering and cloud based disaster recovery into a single appliance that radically simplifies the storage infrastructure and reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of data storage 60-80%
Posted: December 1, 2011 | Published: May 5, 2011


Topics:  Backups | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | Data Storage | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Storage Optimization | Storage Spending

WHITE PAPER - Managed print services (MPS) offer organisations the opportunity to control costs, reduce the complexity of managing a heterogeneous infrastructure and improve business processes.
Posted: October 21, 2011 | Published: October 11, 2010


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services

WHITE PAPER - Benchmarking, or the analysis of operational costs, productivity, and service levels in a comparative context of market standards, is a firmly established management tool.
Posted: October 20, 2011 | Published: October 22, 2010


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Cost Benefit Analysis | Productivity

ANALYST BRIEF - BY relying on a comprehensive set of organizational capabilities, top performing companies are able to plan, implement, and manage their BI strategies more efficiently, ultimately leading to a lower cost per user, and a higher return on their BI investment.
Posted: September 19, 2011 | Published: September 19, 2011


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business IT Alignment | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Analytics | Predictive Analytics | Predictive Analytics Software | TCO

ANALYST REPORT - Conducted 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.
Posted: September 6, 2011 | Published: September 6, 2011


Topics:  Competition | Cost Benefit Analysis | Database Administration | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | DB2 | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Forrester Consulting studied the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that healthcare facilities may realize by deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Learn more about the financial impact of moving from a traditional one-PC-per-user model to a centralized, hosted virtual-desktop delivery model.
Posted: August 4, 2011 | Published: August 4, 2011


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Desktop Virtualization for Healthcare | EHR (Electronic Health Records) | Health Care Industry | Health Care Networking | Health Care Storage

PODCAST - This podcast provides strategies for SAP customers which can optimize their systems for increased functionality while still reducing costs. Listen now to hear about the concerns of today's SAP customers, the changing role of the CIO and low-cost strategies for optimizing SAP environments.
Posted: July 15, 2011 | Premiered: July 14, 2011


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Resource Management | Enterprise Systems | SAP (Product)

EGUIDE - Regarding disaster recovery, expenses currently overshadow the risk of theoretical disaster. As a result, CIOs who hope to implement or upgrade their DR plans must compromise. This e-guide discusses how to make a value case for DR, along with a series of low-cost strategies for planning, implementing, and testing virtual DR plans.
Posted: June 27, 2011 | Published: June 24, 2011


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | CIOs | Cost Benefit Analysis | Disaster Recovery | Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments | Server Virtualization | Testing | VDI | Virtual Machine | VM

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an introduction to leveraging user credentials securely through federated identity management.
Posted: June 21, 2011 | Published: June 21, 2011


Topics:  Access Control | Collaboration | Cost Benefit Analysis | Identity Management | Information Security | SSO | User Experience

WHITE PAPER - In an exclusive survey, members of the CIO Forum on LinkedIn have weighed in on the business impact of application performance. These CIOs and IT leaders say they directly associate application performance with end-user and customer satisfaction, along with the potential to increase productivity and lower costs.
Posted: June 15, 2011 | Published: June 13, 2011


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Applications Management | CIOs | Cost Benefit Analysis | Customer Satisfaction | Productivity | Surveys