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How To Save Your Company Millions Of Dollars The Easy Way!

May 11, 2007

What would your IT Director and CIO say if you ran into them in the elevator and asked them "What would you say if I could save the company a half a million dollars a year?" Not too long ago one of the projects I was managing was a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) project. We looked for the highest costs for desktop support and focused in on those areas only, so we left out things like training for end users, software and hardware procurement, just because the savings were not that great and...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: , , , ,

How Microsoft Deployed Data Protection Manager

May 19, 2006

This document describes how Microsoft deployed Data Protection Manager to 130+ remote sites. It also includes comparitive data along with best practices. This is version 4 and was released today. When I was at MMS last month I spoke to one of the Microsoft reps regarding Data Protection Manager, I had already gotten a little news about this last summer from our emerging technologies briefing, but I wanted to know how much is would cost. See, I am the PM on our TCO project and one of the goals is...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , ,