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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
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Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »December 06, 2005 — CIO —
Sun Microsystems unveiled yesterday a set of new low-cost servers based on the UltraSparc T1 chip that the company announced last month, according to the New York Times.
The servers, which the company claims use far less energy than their predecessors, are aimed at heavy Internet users. With prices starting at roughly $3,000, the new T1000 and T2000 servers are able to perform transactions that typically require multiple servers, the company said.
Scott G. McNealy, Sun’s chief executive, said Yahoo, Electronic Data Systems and Air France were among the companies that had agreed to substantial purchases of the new servers.
The new servers are part of a trend in the computer industry toward reducing power consumption. "It’s as if the Porsche had the mileage of the Prius," McNealy said.
--David Rosenbaum