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Comment When it comes to the total cost of ownership, most organisations do not fully understand the hidden costs of printing. Many businesses do not even know how many printers they have, how many pages are printed daily, the operating costs or the total...
[22 Apr 2008]
Comment This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. I suspect that, once more, the only thing this highlights is total incompetence at the Home Office.
[17 Apr 2008]
Comment The study found that total average cost of a breach reached £47 per record. The cost of notifying customers - on average £1 - was the least significant because of a lack of legally required notification.
[10 Mar 2008]
Comment It's a shift from simple labour arbitrage to a head-on attack on the total cost of ownership, including the productivity of labour, hardware and software assets through standardisation. Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost...
[18 Feb 2008]
Comment This has been assessed, at current typical utilisation and efficiency levels, to produce 5,540 tonnes of CO2 per annum at a cost of £1.159m for the power consumed," Lidbetter says. Adjusting the baseline to reflect projected energy price increases...
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment It has little to do with the cost of development, which is normally a minor factor in the total price of a software product. Another potential weakness in the Gartner proposition is the strong likelihood the 'Chinese Effect', which has brought down...
[22 Nov 2007]
Comment Colm Feighoney, a green IT consultant with IBM Global Services, says: "Many of the organisations I come across have far more printers than they ever imagined because an individual department can nip along to PC World and buy an inkjet with no...
[02 Nov 2007]
Comment Vendors claim total cost of ownership of their solutions is at least 30 per cent lower than the cost of a licensed in-house product - enabling them to deliver more benefit for lower cost. Carol Wheatcroft argues that hosted services offer a viable...
[01 Nov 2007]
AS Analysis Betfair is a superb example of a company that in a single day handles more transactions than the total equity of the trading centres of Europe, London, Frankfurt. The other airline CIO, at 25 on the list, is Bill Maguire at Virgin America, the...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment Put it this way, CIOs and even coal-face CTOs out there can get their non-IT peers and the boss excited about what it can do for streamlining and cutting cost from IT systems. Com spun off handheld-maker Palm, retaining a significant share, and the...
[15 Aug 2007]
Comment Do you account for the full environmental impact cost when you plug the server replacement figures into the ROI? IDC estimates that for ever dollar spent on IT hardware, 50 cents are spent on energy, and by 2010 the total power and cooling bill for...
[13 Aug 2007]
Comment However, the most powerful argument the company has surrounds total cost of ownership. Predictably, the perceived cost of Macs is a major barrier and a common argument for choosing a PC. Back in 2005 silicon.com asked its CIO Jury, a group of...
[19 Jul 2007]
Comment One of the brighter areas for tech spend in financial services is investment banking and Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, says the focus over the last 18 months or so has been away from...
[19 Jun 2007]
CIO Analysis One of the brighter areas for tech spend in financial services is investment banking and Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, says the focus over the last 18 months or so has been away from...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile At DHL one of his main tasks is the IT integration following that acquisition, which is expected to take around three years in total. Integration was one of Underwood's big achievements at Exel where he embarked on an aggressive cost-cutting...
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment Throw in flight time plus taxi transfer at the other end and I've found it all makes for a total travel time of more than four hours and 30 minutes door-to-door, during which you're pretty much on the move the whole time, bar 30 minutes on the...
[04 Jun 2007]
Comment Network outsourcers can make the total cost of ownership (TCO) equation look even more attractive as they are able to source equipment from suppliers at a substantially cheaper rate. This allows them to offer the same service as the internal team...
[16 Apr 2007]
Round-Up If it takes 600 x 300ml tins of beans to fill a 180 litre bath tub, at a cost of 79p per tin, the cost of setting up this stunt is £474. This year the charity hopes to crash through the £300m mark in terms of total funds raised, which is a...
[16 Mar 2007]
Comment In terms of the future of India as a location for IT services Robinson believes the pure cost advantage won't last forever. Alongside outsourcing, simplification is a big theme for IT at Norwich Union as part of companywide plans to slash £250m off...
[27 Feb 2007]
Comment That, combined with Microsoft's aggressive 'Get the facts' advertising campaign, which aimed to dispel the 'free Linux' myth and paint Windows as having a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), stopped the Linux desktop movement almost dead in its...
[08 Nov 2006]
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