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The high cost of running a data center goes well beyond just power and cooling. It often extends to areas that are hard to see, but easy to mitigate. Our latest eBook, “Hiding in Plain Sight,” sheds light on 5 facts you may not realize are driving up your data center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). |
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Have you hit the on-premise iceberg?
Did you know that software licenses for on-premise solutions are only 9% of the total cost? It’s like buying a boat and realizing you still need to pay for the storage, maintenance, and fuel (and then even more maintenance). The licenses are just the tip of the iceberg. You can avoid throwing your money away on hidden costs… Check out this interactive infographic and find out how switching to the cloud can help you breathe easy and save your profits. Otherwise, you could be facing a titanic mistake! |
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When asked in each of the last 10 years to list their primary focus, CIOs responding to the annual State of the CIO survey chose “aligning IT with business goals” number one—over and over again. Obviously, this alignment is mission-critical for CIOs. So how do they measure just how well they’re doing with this alignment? Specifically, what metrics can they present that show the link between, say, a major cloud expense and the business value that expense generates?
The answer is, by and large they don’t. They want to actually measure the business impact of cloud and other IT spending, but most CIOs feel they don’t have a credible and trusted means of doing so. Now some leading edge organizations around the globe and across a broad swath of industry types are using a methodology called Value Engineering to produce these elusive value metrics. |
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Successful businesses constantly seek growth, and they follow many different paths to growth over time. In recent years, many companies have chosen to grow through acquisition due to market conditions, industry pressure, or simply because suitable opportunities arose. While the purpose of an acquisition may be to support growth, the goals of an acquisition are only achievable by successfully combining the operations and finances of the two entities. That process begins by integrating the IT infrastructure of the acquired company. Unfortunately, many business software products, especially ERP platforms, rely on outdated architecture that impedes the successful integration of newly acquired companies. That’s why it’s essential for companies to consider the readiness of their IT infrastructure as they consider the possibility of acquiring or being acquired by another company. |
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Based on the distribution of staff in today’s workplace, you likely have a multigenerational team and the friction that goes along with it. You can improve how you manage that team. With a few specific steps, you can value the different perspectives that each generation brings to the workplace and maximize creativity, innovation, and business results.
In professional services industries, time is spent helping customers maximize value from your product or service. It is a people-intensive business. As leaders, none of us can afford the customer impact of turnover and reduced productivity that comes from internal friction among generations. While every situation is different, one thing is true: we can’t live with a revolving door of talent and be successful. Now more than ever, organizations need to consider and understand the differences between generations to be able to drive success. |
Being in IT I’m sure you know someone who’s been hit with ransomware or you have been though it yourself. Wouldn’t it be great to have a manual of what to do when you get hit and how to prevent it in the future? Now you do!You will also receive a Ranso…
The customer is king. That’s a given. Smart companies are adopting end-to-end technology solutions to propel their growth and ensure their sustainability. Forrester’s top 10 technology trends demonstrates why a …
View this white paper to learn how a detailed TCO evaluation shows cloud-based solutions can deliver significant savings compared to on-premises business applications. Cloud computing eliminates the need for individual …
Despite billions spent on BI, data still remains inaccessible for the vast majority of business users who are clamoring to make faster, data-driven decisions. In our personal lives, search has transformed the way we access information. Enter: Relationa…
The arms race in the Internet of Things is in full effect. Leading companies in the industrial internet like GE and Boeing have increased the amount of sensor data they are collecting from IoT devices like Raspberry Pi and other embedded systems with t…
