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June 9, 2011, 2:00 pm • by Keith Unterschute

New Metric for Cloud TCO Modeling

In environments where the peak demand for processing resources drives infrastructure provisioning, the rapid and elastic provisioning of Cloud computing could be very interesting to your organization. The concept of elasticity within the cloud speaks of resources being scaled up or down to address activity that grows or decreases over time. If your peak usage patterns are known and the processing requirements can accept your Cloud vendor’s speed of provisioning, then you could create a very compelling TCO. Read more

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April 15, 2011, 7:18 am • by Mark Tomlinson

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

This week I found myself researching methods to optimize site performance.  While I usually get more in depth to particular technologies, such as techniques for faster Jquery calls to the DOM (Document Object Model), this article proved to be a good stepping stone for those that may not know where to start.   There are some 35 suggestions for areas which a developer could dig into to optimize their web site or web application.  Most of these techniques are very basic and easy to implement.  For example minimizing Javascript and css saves file size and speeds up browser request time for those files.  Check out the following article, you might find an idea that you had not thought of previously.     http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

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April 4, 2011, 10:25 am • by Richard Hamje

Collaborative Video Generates a High ROI

Unified Communications projects generate a better return on investment when a video component is included in the scope of the analysis.  Salire recently mined our database from hundreds of UC business cases.  We looked at various technology elements and determined that those with a significant video component had the highest ROI.  Specifically, the average ROI for all UC business cases was about 140%, but for those with video elements, the average ROI was 512%!  The payback period was about two months shorter with video. Read more

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March 30, 2011, 4:55 am • by Keith Unterschute

Challenges of Claiming Automation Savings in ROI Studies

The automation capabilities of virtualization is a very compelling reason to move to this new paradigm. Depending on the solution you adopt, the ROI just based on reduced capital and operating costs may be a no brainer without having to take into account the automation benefits. 

If, however, you find you need to present the value of automation to your company’s decision makers, it is important to understand that just because automation is possible it may not make much difference when you take governance into account. Governance includes such things as policies, processes and decision-rights. No amount of automation will get around governance. To enable the benefits of automation, it is going to be critical to convince management to revisit governance and adjust the policies, processes and decision-rights to take into account the capabilities of the technology. Once governance is adjusted the automation inherent in virtualization can really start to transform the business’ response to time sensitive market movements.

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February 3, 2011, 5:59 am • by Kent Johnson

Web Tools or Consulting Services for technology business value: Which is best for you?

Web tools provide a repeatable, scalable, and structured approach for technology business value efforts while service-based engagements provide highly configured complex analyses that are usually executed by professional consultants working with the client and the vendor. Read more

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