IT Budgeting and Spending White Papers

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Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions sponsored by Emerson Network Power WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews the challenges of measuring data center energy efficiency and proposes a solution: a new metric called CUPS, or Compute Units per Second, that allows data center managers to calculate data center efficiency. Posted: 07 Jul 2009 \| Published: 07 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Center Power Management \| Energy Efficiency \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Metrics \| Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) \| Operational Metrics (Systems) \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Maintenance

Built-in Manageability and Proactive Security for Business Desktop PCs sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how built in desktop management can help address today?s key IT challenges such as avoiding malicious attacks, accurate inventory of assets, and the demand for IT services. Posted: 05 Sep 2006 \| Published: 01 Oct 2006 TOPICS: Desktop Management \| Downtime \| Endpoint Security \| IT Asset Management \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| Multi-core Processor Architecture \| Multi-core Processors \| Operating Systems \| Personal Computers \| Remote Network Management \| Security Threats \| Software Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor

Usage of Virtualization Technology at Small and Midsize Businesses sponsored by VMware and Intel WHITE PAPER: Virtualization technologies can allow small and medium-sized businesses to reduce hardware costs and optimize IT. If your business is not currently using this technology, checkout this survey to gauge how your peers are addressing virtualization issues. Posted: 09 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Nov 2007 TOPICS: Business Performance Management \| Hardware Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Spending \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| SMBs

Server Consolidation Blooming in Production Environments sponsored by VMware and Intel WHITE PAPER: Learn how a virtual infrastructure empowers small and medium-sized businesses with the ability to transform, manage and optimize their IT infrastructure. Posted: 15 Nov 2007 \| Published: 15 Nov 2007 TOPICS: IT Asset Management \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Managers \| IT Spending \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software

Air-Cooled High-Performance Data Centers: Case Studies and Best Methods sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Combining innovations and best-known methods for air-cooled data center design helps provide new approaches for power and cooling. This white paper discusses real world examples of how to lower costs and improve performance within the IT infras... Posted: 31 Aug 2007 \| Published: 01 Nov 2006 TOPICS: Cooling Equipment \| Data Centers \| IT Spending \| Load Balancing \| Multi-core Processors \| Power Supplies \| Server Appliances \| Server Management

The Top 3 Cost-Cutting Mistakes CIOs Make And How to Avoid Them sponsored by Rally Software WHITE PAPER: The current economic downturn has resulted in contraction of IT Department budgets and a mandate to allocate resources to only the most critical projects, then execute it flawlessly. In these tough times, it is imperative for CIOs to deliver more value as IT budgets fall. Posted: 03 Apr 2009 \| Published: 03 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Business Process Management \| CIOs \| IT Best Practices \| IT Management \| IT Spending \| Manufacturing \| Project Management \| ROI \| Software Development Methodologies

Software and Services Financing sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Financing information technology hardware is an accepted way of doing business. Clients are discovering the benefits of financing software and services and are making financing of software and services one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT financing industry. This paper explains the importance of aligning financing with IT transformation. Posted: 18 Feb 2009 \| Published: 18 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Financing \| Hardware Selection \| IT Best Practices \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Spending \| Software Licensing \| Software Selection \| Software Upgrades

Advances in Data Warehouse Performance sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Learn how DB2 can help you meet the demands of business intelligence by reducing query response time from hours to seconds, supporting real time data warehousing, and optimizing your storage while lowering operating costs. Posted: 28 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 May 2007 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Clustering \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| DB2 \| IT Spending \| Logical Partitions \| Query Tools \| Self-Service Applications Software \| Server Management

Hardware Neutral Imaging with ImageX: The Ghost Killer sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: Learn how ImageX can help facilitate successful image management and lower the total cost of ownership of your Vista implementation. Posted: 14 Mar 2007 \| Published: 01 Mar 2007 TOPICS: IT Auditing \| IT Best Practices \| IT Departments \| IT Services \| IT Spending \| Network Best Practices \| TCO

Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Understanding how IT can drive value and competitive advantage for your company is important for executives in all industries. This SAP Executive Insight paper explores the relationship between IT investment and performance and productivity gains. Posted: 30 Jan 2009 \| Published: 18 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| Investments \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Spending \| Productivity \| ROI \| SAP (Product)