Maximising
the value you achieve from your software budget
Purchasing software licences is just the start of the story. Support and
maintenance costs mount up over the years, so it makes sense to take stock of all your software contracts and ensure
that you are getting the best value for money.
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to control your expenditure on software upgrades and support.
SSDs... No flash in the pan, just instant performance benefits
Many customers need to provide faster access to data and are challenged by growing throughput requirements for their business applications.
Achieving high performance for can be very challenging because servers are often rendered inefficient by storage bottlenecks.
SSDs based on flash technology are emerging as a new enterprise class storage option for faster performance at a compelling price point
and incredibly low power requirements.
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Latest: Oracle Corporation is to buy Sun Microsystems.
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Energy efficient data centres
Saving money and power through integrated disk & tape-based storage
The IT industry as a whole is urgently looking for ways to reduce power consumption. Given the state of power
availability, improving efficiency is essential in order to make further data centre expansion economically and
environmentally defensible, and board-level executives will certainly be realising this as the green IT debate
continues.
For those that already have restricted power provisioning in place, there
is a real challenge to find the most power efficient solutions. There are examples where data centre floor space cannot
physically be utilised because the existing equipment has used up the power quota.
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to discover a range of technologies that can be deployed to save money and power.
Storage Economics: Understanding and managing overall storage costs
Difficult economic times require new approaches and strategies for reducing the cost of storage infrastructure
investments. The past several years of IT procurement have left many IT organisations with underused and oversubscribed
storage capacities. Now, with a squeeze on capital and credit, many organisations are faced with edicts to do more with
less.
Storage Economics presents a major shift in the way companies assess their storage requirements and investment returns,
from one focused on capital expenditure to the true ownership cost. These days the capital cost typically equates to
just 20% of the total cost of ownership over 3 to 4 years, understanding the other 80% - the operational expense - is
essential to containing and reducing the overall costs.
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methodology
