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- Cooling future cost inflation
- Cooling future cost inflationMakes senseAlthough you COULD should take those 80+ watt desktops and grid them together in a distributed fashion - thus adding little-used CPU power into a big pool. This allows for ALL computers great and small to be loaded and configured EXACTLY THE SAME. This of course...
- Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Desktops, Virtualization, inflation, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-23
- Watch this space: Consolidation in the offing for corporate carbon management applications
- I actually DID NOT find this news on the SAP Web site, but noticed it on the Gartner web site this morning and it is definitely noteworthy because it portends of things to come. I'm a couple days late with this post, but hopefully I may be forgiven a vacation...
- Tags: Consolidation, SAP AG, Clear, Clear Standards, Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Site Development, Productivity, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Internet, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Customer Spotlight: City of San Diego Uses Virtualization for Consolidation and Application Deployment
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how the City of San Diego, California is using VMware virtualization solutions to consolidate servers and make application deployment easier while increasing productivity and easing the IT budget. The attendee will find out how virtualization optimizes existing IT infrastructure and reduces IT power,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, San Diego, Application Deployment, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Webcasts 2009-05-13
- Infrastructure Consolidation
- Consolidation may be a key tool for realizing the goals of many organizations. In particular, if some form of consolidation advances the business goals of the organization, then consolidation should be considered. However, it will not match the business goals of all organizations or it may not be a priority...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Consolidation, Infrastructure Consolidation
- White papers 2009-05-12
- Will consolidation hurt innovation?
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Peter Solvik, managing director at Sigma Partners, questions CIOs about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The panel includes: Matt Carey, chief information officer of Home Depot; Karenann Terrell, CIO of Baxter; and Lars Rabbe, former CIO of Yahoo. The IT...
- Tags: Innovation, CIO, Consolidation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Yahoo, Baxter, Home Depot
- Videos 2009-05-08
- TechNet Webcast: Branch Consolidation With Windows Server and Cisco WAN Optimization (Level 300)
- Running Windows Server on the Cisco Wide-Area Appliance Service WAAS branch office solution reduces the cost and complexity of providing IT services in branch locations with accelerated access to centralized applications and secure and reliable local Windows Server services. The platform includes Windows Server 2008 Server Core installation on the...
- Tags: Webcast, Optimization, Microsoft Windows Server, Consolidation, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, WANs, Servers, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-04-23
- Is billing consolidation a good thing?
- The agreement by WellPoint to sell its pharmacy benefit unit to ExpressScripts for $4.68 billion may be the first of several deals leading to consolidation in medical billing. Good thing or bad thing? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Billing, Consolidation, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Shui on Land Limited Shortens the Time Required for Budget Revision and Consolidation by Three Days
- Shui On Land Limited wanted to build a Web-based budgeting platform that can be accessed by property managers in branch offices and headquarters and provide staff with the tools to manage yearly budgets, complete monthly cash flow forecasts, and undertake long-term planning for large-scale development projects. The challenge was to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Budgeting, Consolidation, Personal Finance, Financial Services
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Corrupting consolidation
- Corrupting consolidationMessage has been deleted.RE: Corrupting consolidationBest post on ZDNet for some time now.I thoroughly agree. What I don't understand is why did it have to come to this, for people to start examining their purchasing decisions instead of blindingly handing out cash for bloatware.Hey we're suffering too , sit...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., recession, consolidation, Marxism
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Corrupting consolidation
- The last week or so I've had a number of conversations with colleagues attempting to figure out how and why the enterprise software mega-players continue to get away with premium pricing during the worst recession in living memory. Why is it that Oracle can show its best...
- Tags: Consolidation, Vendor, Wall Street, Vinnie, Agresso, Financial Planning, Strategy, Open Source, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- SQL Server Consolidation Strategies
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 supports multiple options for server consolidation, providing organizations with the flexibility to choose the consolidation approach that best meets their requirements for centralizing data services management. SQL Server 2008 can also help reduce hardware and maintenance costs by providing a flexible server consolidation solution. Organizations can...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft SQL Server, Consolidation, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-03-18
- How to Save With BI Platform Consolidation
- Challenging economic pressures has forced organizations to carefully reevaluate their IT strategies in an effort to reduce overall infrastructure cost. One particular area that is being scrutinized because of its significant licensing, maintenance and specialized support cost is that of business intelligence platforms. New with the release of Microsoft SQL...
- Tags: Consolidation, Innovative Architects, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Device Consolidation Benefits WAN Infrastructure
- Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises SMEs are looking for ways to improve the reliability and performance of their WAN infrastructure. Network device consolidation offers cost savings and eases the complexity of managing, maintaining and supporting multiple devices. There are many difficult issues related to WAN infrastructure complexity, cost, and performance. However,...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Consolidation, Ecessa, WANs, Smb/Sme, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2009-02-10
- SQL Server Consolidation on VMware
- Many IT departments have a large and growing number of SQL Server instances in production, offering a great opportunity for consolidation and cost reduction. VMware offers a dynamic, highly available platform that is particularly well suited to consolidating SQL instances and achieving fast and simple consolidation by preserving configuration and...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Consolidation, Server, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-02-10
- TechNet Webcast: Consolidation and Rapid Provisioning (Level 300)
- Contoso has seen the benefits of virtualizing their test and development environments, now Contoso wishes to proceed on a wide-spread deployment of virtualization technologies with a wider scope. This webcast looks at how to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to move production servers into a virtual environment, the...
- Tags: Webcast, Consolidation, Environment, Provisioning, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Contoso, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Webcasts 2009-01-30
- Case study: IT repositories help Wachovia manage change amid complex bank consolidation
- Using SOA repositories, or groups of repositories, IT and business assets can be quickly federated and integrated for business process alignment and consolidation. Furthermore, these processes can be managed centrally via policies and governance definitions, even across far-flung global operations. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Repository, Bank, Information Technology, Consolidation, Wachovia Corp., IT Repository, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- Pou Chen Group Streamlines the Consolidation of Financial Data From 100 Subsidiaries
- Pou Chen Group wanted to consolidate financial information across more than 100 subsidiaries into a single financial statement and reduce the time taken to produce the consolidated report to ensure information reaches senior managers in a timely manner. The challenge was to avoid the use of external accountants to consolidate...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Consolidation, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Extending VMware Consolidation Benefits to Data Protection With Data Domain
- Server virtualization, however, does nothing to directly address storage capacity requirements. In fact, new challenges are often created in the realm of data protection and disaster recovery, where even the simplest virtualization solutions can increase the requirements for storage and wide area network bandwidth. Data Domain storage systems perform fast,...
- Tags: Data Protection, Consolidation, Benefit, Domain, VMware Inc., De-duplication, Storage, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-12-17
- Adecco Puts IBM Migration Factory to Work on IBM POWER Consolidation Project
- Adecco is a global staffing company based in Switzerland, with teams servicing diverse markets in more than 60 countries. The company wanted to help this worldwide staffing company overcome the maintenance and reliability issues of a disparate IT infrastructure. The company consolidated over 50 HP and Sun servers onto IBM...
- Tags: Consolidation, Adecco, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Consolidator Enterprise for Excel 1.5 (Windows)
- Consolidator Enterprise for Excel is a Microsoft Excel complement especially created to consolidate a large volume of data in just a few seconds, making it possible to obtain advanced processing reports for an immediate view of the information, to serve as support in the decision making process. This effective tool...
- Tags: Consolidation, Microsoft Windows, Model Advisor, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-11-22

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