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Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from fresh rumblings in the perennial Mac vs PC debate, to question marks over open source cost-cutting and the countdown to the launch of Windows 7, which... [09 Nov 2009]
3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs
White Paper This IDC White Paper explores 3 tangible areas that IT departments should investigate to help strategise cost reduction during the downturn. Download the White Paper to learn: -- Why IT utilisation, end-user support and... [02 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News But many organisations have found the key is to align green goals with broader cost-cutting initiatives - which are definitely in vogue with CIOs and CFOs. In the short term, companies can be focusing on the improvements... [29 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment If on Select, then there will be a cost involved - but this will not be anywhere near the retail prices which are seen by many as being a little off-putting. Cost But surely the cost of... [28 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News While open source is often touted as a cost-saving option for CIOs (especially ones with CFOs unwilling to sign off on expensive proprietary software licences), several CIOs on the jury warned that the costs of migrating... [28 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News The move has saved Jaguar Land Rover several million pounds compared to the cost of setting up its own Microsoft Exchange server and will offer ongoing service savings as well. Following its sale by parent company Ford... [26 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Regardless of any possible functional benefits of an open source system, the cost of change and retraining would outweigh any benefits certainly in the short term and the project would distract from other more pressing... [23 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News Kiessling's team has just completed a three-year project to build a new poker platform (P5) at a cost of between €20m and €25m which took 250 man years to create. When you think of gambling, smoky casinos... [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News And in the midst of a recession, with cost cutting a priority, it's easy to let slide worthy targets such as becoming carbon neutral - especially if the choice is between a project to shrink the carbon footprint of IT... [22 Oct 2009]
Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis
White Paper A Comparative Cost Analysis, Forrester Research, Inc. According to Forrester, "Google is setting a new price floor on email and archiving costs. Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? January 2009). Download the... [22 Oct 2009]
Cloud Computing—What is its Potential Value for Your Company?
White Paper Cloud computing may be new, but one thing hasn't changed: management's insistence on justifying IT investments by return on investment and total cost of ownership. You still weigh a solution's advantages/disadvantages... [22 Oct 2009]
Streamline Your Business with Innovative Tools
White Paper Citrix Online has put together a practical guide that explores how Web-based solutions have enabled real companies to achieve remarkable results, such as reducing cost per sale by 75 percent; improving productivity by 10... [22 Oct 2009]
Video Whitepaper: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A better way to do load testing
White Paper Using this approach, organizations can improve application quality, enhance the customer experience, and lower the cost of deploying new systems. Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper to learn how to easily launch a... [21 Oct 2009]
Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware
White Paper As a business changes through growth, contraction, or seasonal variation, its middleware must be flexible, cost-efficient, and easily modified to accommodate this fluctuation. Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper... [21 Oct 2009]
Demand the best in on-demand data protection
White Paper IBM Remote Data Protection is a powerful and cost-effective solution for business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance. A reliable data protection and backup strategy is essential. All data is protected, no... [21 Oct 2009]