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<item><title>Do It Yourself: Calculate Your Company's Information Productivity</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[   -  Here are the steps and financial data you'll need to calculate the information productivity of your company. 
1. Your company's annual income statement and balance sheet. These audited results are found in your most recent
10-K form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. If your compan...]]></description>
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<item><title>Outsourcing Mobile Device Management</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Some businesses are beginning to outsource the management of their handheld computing devices. Where does your company stand?   -  
With many information-technology managers increasingly overwhelmed by the rising cost and burden of supporting mobile wireless workers, some businesses are beginning to outsource the management of their handheld computing devices. According to a recent Gartner report, wireless outsourcing provider...]]></description>
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<item><title>New Edge for Blade Servers</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Blade servers offer a way to pack lots of processors into a small space. Estimate whether you want to make the leap.   -  

Blade servers, which pack more processing power into less space than conventional servers, are attracting increased interest among technology managers. Why? They are cheaper, more powerful and more flexible compared to blade servers sold even one year ago.

Blade server sales, representing 4.6...]]></description>
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<item><title>Your Call: Smart Phones or Laptops?</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Should your company arm its workers with a laptop and cell phone or a smart phone? Compare costs.   -  With the number of mobile workers expected to grow in coming years, information-technology managers have two options for providing wireless data and voice communications.
The first option involves two devices: a laptop equipped with a wireless PC card for data, and a standard cell phone for voice. ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Paying the Electric Bill</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[How to figure out the true cost to power and cool your servers.   -  Information-technology managers usually focus on software licenses and maintenance. What about electricity for power, emergency backup and cooling? Consumption per unit of computing power is dropping but computing power has increased. In many cases, electricity exceeds the cost of the computer over ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Averting Apps' Collapse</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:49:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Are your business applications not living up to expectations? You may need application performance management software.   -  
If vital business applications do not perform the way they're supposed to, information-technology departments will have some explaining to do. A critical application for handling customer transactions on the Web that acts flaky for even a few minutes can mean lost sales, as well as dissatisfied cl...]]></description>
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<item><title>Virtualization May Get More Power From Your Hardware</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Virtualization software can help you get more oomph from your processors and, just maybe, run more than one always-on application on each of those expensive servers.   -  

With servers, the norm has been: any application likely to run constantly, such as Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle, requires its own processor. As a result, these applications must be licensed for multiple processors even though the extra horsepower often goes to waste.
With the advent of centra...]]></description>
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<item><title>Putting a Price on Brainpower</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The information in employees' heads can be worth millions. Here's a way to put a price tag on all of that brainpower.   -  Download the worksheet
For the past 100 years, economists have waged an ongoing debate about the causes of economic growth. Classical economic theory has rested on the assumption that if one invests in factories, tools and improved transportation, economic growth is sure to follow.
Under that theo...]]></description>
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<item><title>Giving Mobile Workers Wireless Tools</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Giving wireless devices such as laptops and handhelds to your workforce can make them more productive&amp; and boost the bottom line.   -  

When an American Airlines engineer needs to review a schematic plan for an aircraft, he may have to schlep hundreds of feet or more  from a computer at one spot in a hangar to an aircraft elsewhere in the hangar or outside at an airport gate.
Under a project that's being rolled out at American'...]]></description>
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<item><title>How Testing Software Pays Off</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you test software applications while they are still under development, you should find defects before actual implementation.   -  
Organizations that test software applications while they are under development should find defects before actual implementation, says Melinda Ballou, program director for application life-cycle management at research firm IDC. As a result, these companies are likely to save money because it's more...]]></description>
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<item><title>Packing Up Your Data Center</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Your data center doesn't cut it anymore. What should you budget for a move to one that can meet your needs?   -  


So your current data center just doesn't cut it anymore. What should you budget for a move to one that can meet your needs?
Allow three to six months for planning, even for a small move. You'll need to determine the best time to move, and don't forget to see if any systems need to be kept up ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Knowing When to Embrace Open Source</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Switching to an enterprise planning system based on open-source software isn't free&amp; but your company can realize significant savings.   -  

Turning to open-source software for an enterprise resource planning system is a big challenge for most companies  so big they steer clear of it.
&quot;No matter how bad their current system is, they feel like they can't afford to change,&quot; says Don Ladwig, senior business solutions architect at Idali...]]></description>
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<item><title>Measuring Your I.T. Superiority</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Your information-technology operations cost less than your rivals' systems. But does the board know that? Here are some numbers to bolster your case.   -  
During a review of the effective- ness of information-technology operations, directors sitting on corporate boards would usually like to avoid hearing about technical topics such as &quot;architecture&quot; or &quot;networking strategies.&quot;
The directors  who usually have a limited amount of time to devote to an...]]></description>
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<item><title>How Much Do You Really Spend?</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You know your company's annual technology budget for software, hardware and labor. But have you tried to add up the hidden costs?   -  
How much does information technology cost a company? You have to look at both the direct budgeted costs and the indirect  or &quot;hidden&quot;  expenses. The direct costs are fairly straightforward and measurable: desktop and server hardware and software; salaries and benefits for staffers; external suppor...]]></description>
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<item><title>Time to Replace Your Phone System?</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:11:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It isn't easy to calculate the savings for moving from a conventional PBX phone system to a VoIP setup. Here's why.   -  
Calculating the savings for moving  from a conventional PBX phone system to a voice-over-Internet Protocol  (VoIP) setup is anything but easy. 
Why? Telephone usage varies, making it difficult to calculate savings. A company that makes many international phone calls may save more with a VoIP phon...]]></description>
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