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TCOnow! for Telecom NGN

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What will this tool help me decide?
If Blades is Right For You

TCOnow! for Telecom NGN is a software tool that will help you decide if Blades is right for you. By answering a limited number of questions, TCOnow! will generate a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) comparison of Blades running on Linux or NEBS complian UNIX servers. You can also focus on specific telecommunications planes such as the Services planes and its associated NGN Internet Protocol applications.

Telecommunication service providers are under tremendous pressure to roll out new services and use technology that is incredibility reliable, while also being scalable. The new economics of service providers require minimizing initial technology investment. However, if a new service becomes popular, it must be able to be supported as demand increases with a consistent level of technology economics throughout the entire service growth cycle. If you are trying to decide if you should go ahead with a Telecom NGN project, then this is the product for you!

Interview Process:		You will be able to choose from a variety of server consolidation strategies. The pricing and performance of several hundred server options is included. Select from 17 industry groups (see default costs for employee salaries, benefits, depreciation method and schedule, cost of capital, etc).

Results:		The software will combine your responses with our industry information to create a financial and technical business case. It will configure your current and future environment, and simplify capacity planning. You will be able to see the financial implications of different server consolidation strategies.

A Step Further:		Once you have reviewed your analysis, you can go back in and change any of your decisions, or the underlying analysis. This means you can change utilization rates, clustering design decisions, IT staffing assumptions, and network upgrade requirements...just to new a few!

Customized Business Report

CIOview's software creates a complete business case, detailing the costs of possible solutions. For the financial people, it includes cost factor breakdown. For the technical people, it includes a complete break-down of deployment.

With a tool this powerful, you can give everyone the information they want…and look great doing it.

Purchasing Research - Done!

Conducting the research necessary to make a purchasing decision can be very time consuming. The process of reading through reviews, listening to the experience of colleagues, and trying to sift through the marketing materials can make it difficult to reach a clear decision. CIOview's software takes all of the pertinent industry information into account and applies it to your specific situation – giving you the most accurate analysis possible.

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	Extensive What if Analysis After you have reviewed your cost comparison, the software allows you to drill-down and change any of the underlying assumptions. The software is intelligent enough to allow you to change everything from the server model selected, to the cost of the power for the servers. This means you can continue to modify your report until you reach the completed solution you desire.

Respected Independent Third Party

You can be assured that as a third party provider, we provide you with only objective information. This independence is recognized by some of the top names in the IT field through the use of our products and strategic partners with associations such as ISECOM and AIIM.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

By answering as few as 25 questions, the software will generate a side-by-side cost comparison for:

Servers
Software
Storage
Network
Services
Training
Facilities
On-going costs
Downtime
Support and maintenance

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