Note

The UPS market has been experiencing continued consolidation through mergers and acquisitions. The areas to evaluate in this space are the vendor's sales and service channels, ease of scalability, and overall efficiency.

Tool

Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of seven leading UPS solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy your organization's requirements before sending out RFPs and scheduling vendor...

Note

Organizations that use efficiency metrics to monitor, measure, and manage data center efficiency are more successful in lower operating expenses in the data center over time.

Solution Set

Organizations that use efficiency metrics to monitor, measure, and manage data center efficiency are more successful in lower operating expenses in the data center over time. Use this storyboard to develop a strategy, choose metrics, set...

Solution Set

IT managers have come under increasing pressure to cut costs, and implementing shared services has become a popular demand from the business.

Video

Organizations pursue shared services to reduce costs and increase quality. However, ineffective governance frequently undermines the benefits of shared services, with over a third of implementations increasing costs. This video will discuss...

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Organizations pursue shared services to reduce costs and increase quality. However, ineffective governance frequently undermines the benefits of shared services, with over a third of implementations increasing costs.

Tool

Use this tool to pick the optimal governance model for your organizational scenario and follow the appropriate steps to get the implementation launched.

(6-May-11) A tight economy affects us in a lot of ways: less travel, fewer new cars, less discretionary income in general. But it also tends to put the brakes on IT spending aimed at improving data center efficiency. At the same time, when the...

This week's letter takes many of the clean-energy issues so dear to investors and technologists today square-on, and brings the matter down to spending the same brain cells getting things done: getting them installed and used.

Sentilla, one of several vendors in a growing category of off-the-shelf data center energy measurement solutions, recently announced the release of Sentilla Energy Manager 3.0. This release introduces several features and enables energy...

(9-Oct-09) Wouldn't it be nice if software were intuitive and worked the way you expected? If it adapted to your workflow, rather than forcing you to learn its idiosyncrasies and adapt to its built-in assumptions of how tasks should be...

IT managers in healthcare have different priorities from their peers in other industries. Specifically, they allocate more resources to support and proportionally fewer to security and design and development. Address the potential problems of...

Video

Tracking how IT employees spend their time can aid IT cost management by identifying low productivity points and controlling demand on scarce IT resources. Open the door to process improvement, better communication with the business about the...

Tool

This tool assesses the probability that an organization will be successful when implementing green IT initiatives. Measure the organization's likelihood of successfully realizing the environmental and business benefits of green IT, and consider...

The recent hype surrounding green IT has left some smaller organizations wondering what steps they can take to ensure initiatives yield successful results. Green IT not only benefits the environment, but can also help the bottom line by cutting...

(10-Aug-09) It sounds so easy: Just give employees the ability to easily move among desktop and mobile voice calls, instant messaging and videoconferencing technologies -- and productivity and efficiency improvements will naturally follow....

Podcast

9:27 minutes - Listen to this podcast for guidance on managing application development demand and to discover ways to optimize the actual development process.

An IT manager's ability to delegate tasks effectively to team members is critical to team success. Delegating is a difficult task and requires a manager to focus on individual workloads, skill sets, and preferred work styles. Create specific job...

Tool

Some organizations want to green their IT departments but are unaware of what options are available and what factors ensure successful implementation. Info-Tech identifies nine green IT initiatives that organizations should consider not only to...

Tool

Based on data from a recent Info-Tech study, this tool assesses an organization's chances of success when implementing green IT initiatives. Understand the organization's current probability of success and consider recommendations to improve...

Desktop virtualization is a game changing technology that can reduce IT operational costs while increasing efficiency and agility in desktop management, says Info-Tech Research Group. 30% of IT leaders have plans to implement a Desktop...

Note

Info-Tech sees increased interest in energy measurement solutions for data centers and end-user infrastructure. However, such solutions are unlikely to make attractive projects unless IT can roughly quantify the true cost of electricity as...

Vendors will promote the energy efficiency and associated cost savings of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). However, Info-Tech finds that energy savings are substantial only in large scale VDI plus thin client deployments. Use this note to...

Collecting data on end-user device energy use can be relatively painless, especially if IT already has built-in tools at its disposal. Learn why an understanding of the true operational costs of energy is now important to many businesses, and...

In the data center, options for energy monitoring and measurement are beginning to proliferate. Understand why IT shops are benchmarking energy use now, which components need to be measured in data centers, and three options for getting started...

Few IT shops fully understand their true energy costs, but as electricity prices continue to rise and environmental concerns mount, energy measurement will be critical in developing an accurate picture. Understand why energy expenses have IT...

In order to make sense of the increasing amount of hype surrounding green IT, small enterprises need to understand what initiatives exist and which are most appropriate for adoption. It doesn't take a tree-hugger to be green. Find out what other...

As the cost of energy rises, controlling and reducing energy consumption in the IT department, particularly in the server room, has become an urgent issue for IT managers. Look beyond the initiatives that increase energy efficiency in the server...

As the cost of energy rises, controlling and reducing energy consumption in the IT department, particularly in the server room, has become an urgent issue for IT managers. All server rooms present the opportunity to increase energy efficiency,...