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TCOnow! for Server Consolidation on Linux and Unix

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What will this tool help me decide?
Your Optimal Hardware Platform, Server Consolidation Strategy and System Configuration

TCOnow! for Server Consolidation on Linux and Unix will allow you determine your optimal hardware platform, server consolidation strategy and system configuration. By answering a limited number of questions, TCOnow! will generate a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) comparison of your current environment with a new one. This software will tell you how much it would cost for your application currently running on NT4, Windows 2000, mixed Windows, Solaris, UX, and AIX on a Linux mainframe or a different UNIX environment.

TCOnow! will also allow you to easily see the cost implications of server consolidation, and even how your workload characteristics will affect your total cost picture. It can accelerate a typical multi-week project into a matter of hours because the software is packed with data - over 25 MB of modeling and assumptions! If you are trying to determine your optimal hardware platform, server consolidation strategy and system configuration, then this is the product for you!

Interview Process:		You will be able to determine which platforms you would like to compare. Select from several server consolidation strategies. Choose one of 17 industry groups (see the default costs for employee salaries, benefits, depreciation method and schedule, cost of capital, etc). The software provides pricing and performance on more than 500 different servers.

Results:		The software will automatically generate a business case with all the financial and technical implications of the two options. It will also configure your optimal servers, including partitioning and clustering when appropriate. It will also provide capacity planning as changes to growth assumptions occur. It will also show you how industry warranty and support terms affect your project costs.

A Step Further:		Once you have reviewed your analysis, you can go back in and change any of the underlying assumptions. This allows you to see how changes in your availability requirements ripple through your server configuration and all of your cost categories. It will also allow you to select a different server consolidation strategy to see the impact on your TCO. Or you could even deploy a cluster, or change financial assumptions to see how costs change.

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 45 questions, TCOnow! will generate a side-by-side cost comparison for your:

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

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