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How to calculate TCO for enterprise software

CIO Business Intelligence

The other side of the cost/benefit equation — what the software will cost the organization, and not just sticker price — may not be as captivating when it comes to achieving approval for a software purchase, but it’s just as vital in determining the expected return on any enterprise software investment.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Depending on your requirements, you can choose from four different SQL Server Editions: Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise to run on Amazon RDS. License Includedâ??

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Variety: The differences in structure between all the types of data within an enterprise. In this context, organizations with low viscosity have significant fragmentation, and duplication throughout their enterprise. Instead, businesses make difficult tradeoffs as to what will and will not be recoverable should disaster strike.

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DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

DataStax raises $45 million to expand its product development and channel growth, Cloudera adds an Apache security module for Hadoop, and Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management for Hadoop. ” Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management. DataStax raises $45 million.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. wow microsoft should be paying more than $1 billion for licensing then. Disaster Recovery. Ruchira Sahan.

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Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?

Data Center Knowledge

But to do this, “it must embrace the public clouds, to which enterprises want to federate.”. “I We are now seeing enterprise customers demand a hybrid cloud solution: a private cloud connected to a public cloud so they can run workloads in both places and generally have choice and control that drive positive economics and business agility.”.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

Fountainhead

Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. And, if you can now logically re-define server and infrastructure profiles, you can also create simplified Disaster recovery tools too.