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RSS operating costHow to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News Faced with the need to make substantial savings, Hayes said he realised he was not going to make such large cuts by simply renegotiating a lower cost for the supply of RMG's existing IT services. Royal Mail Group has cut... [20 Nov 2009]
Sustainable Cost Reduction: How Insurance Companies Can Embed Efficiencies for Long-Term Operating Improvement
White Paper The insurance industry today is facing an extraordinary confluence of adverse macroeconomic trends along with unique challenges and opportunities. As balance sheets weaken, revenue growth slows and margins come under pressure, the... [13 Nov 2009]
Taxing Issues in Strategic Sourcing Decisions
White Paper Today's economic environment is forcing companies to assess their core competencies and identify more efficient operating modes. The precise tax implications of each option should be a key part of the... [13 Nov 2009]
Improving Business Continuity Using Double-Take
White Paper Doing so allows businesses to reliably safeguard their data while realizing cost and efficiency improvements in their storage management and provisioning. Ensuring that these systems keep operating is a... [13 Nov 2009]
Achieve a Higher Return on Investment With the Barracuda Web Filter
White Paper An important factor to consider when evaluating Web filtering solutions is the total cost of ownership. Very often, the hidden costs of deployment and maintenance can be as much as or even more than the... [13 Nov 2009]
Digital Rights Management - DRM: An Introduction to DRM
White Paper Attempts to link finer grained control to micro-payments controls has not been successful so far, and may prove to be unattainable in the longer term because the cost of operating the mechanism exceeds... [12 Nov 2009]
Creating a Secure Base in a Virtual World
White Paper The adoption rate of Virtual Machines has exploded at most organizations, driven by the improved cost effectiveness of increased server utilization. Fortunately, Shavlik Technologies provide the same secure... [12 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News As a result, users can access multiple operating systems on a single machine. This concept has been scaled up and various pieces of software have been developed so - for example - a physical server can hold a number of... [11 Nov 2009]
'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
News Wise authorities will.use outsourcing as a way of providing aspects of their service in a more cost-effective way, and will not simply outsource a problematic service because it has issues they do not understand," it added. [10 Nov 2009]
The Journey Along an Information-Led Transformation
White Paper Information, when aligned with your business strategy, holds the key to driving profitable growth, cost take out and proactive risk management. However, despite the tremendous growth in information, most organizations... [09 Nov 2009]
FedEx Gains Better Insight Into Profitability Metrics With 64-Bit OLAP Solution
White Paper The move from a UNIX-based analysis solution to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services delivered a tenfold increase in performance and an 80 percent decrease in the cost of ownership. A subsequent upgrade to a... [30 Oct 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. Cameron Green, green IT partnerships manager at environmental... [29 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment But surely the cost of the new operating system is an issue? If on Select, then there will be a cost involved - but this will not be anywhere near the retail prices which are seen by... [28 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News But for some CIOs on older OSes, the cost impetus to adopt Windows 7 is already stacking up, thanks to the aging nature of Windows XP. However, despite the recession, moving from XP to Windows 7 could prove a... [21 Oct 2009]
Reducing IT Deployment Time, Labor and Costs with Hyper-V and Dell
White Paper Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V offers virtualization capabilities that can help IT organizations reduce server deployment time, cut labor requirements and lessen operating costs. The Dell virtualization... [15 Oct 2009]
