The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions. 

Join Glenn Weadock, Global Knowledge Instructor, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, A+, for this Windows 7 Review Guide. This white paper introduces the key areas in which Windows 7 differs from Vista - areas you'll need to focus on if you're thinking of moving to Windows 7, either from Vista or from XP. 

This document is intended for IT decision makers, planners, architects, service professionals and installers that are evaluating VDI. A moderate level of technical expertise and familiarity with VMware, Microsoft Windows Server and Desktop Operating Systems as well as HP ProLiant and StorageWorks hardware is considered essential. 

In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability. 

To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability. 

This white paper provides a close examination of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and how it may dramatically lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Read this paper to learn about the current cost of PC management and how virtual desktops can be deployed using existing budgets. 

Oracle Financial Analytics provides organizations with better visibility into factors that drive revenues and shareholder value. Oracle BI Applications are powerful, pre-built solutions that enable organizations to implement more quickly, with less risk and at a fraction of the cost required to build traditional business intelligence solutions. 

This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk. 

This handbook is designed to help senior IT management calculate their organization's mobile ROI and TCO -- using an enterprise environment of 2,000 mobile users to demonstrate the approach -- and includes a 5-step analytical approach for reducing that TCO by as much as 15-20 percent. 

This paper presents a solution that leverages comprehensive document process automation to deliver the advantages of paperless invoice processing as an on-demand service. It highlights the opportunity to shift ROI from the project level to the document level (capital versus operational expense) and realize automation benefits immediately. 

This white paper addresses the concerns of chief information officers and network architects worried about how to best utilize new data transport infrastructures from an economic, operational, and security perspective. The purpose of this paper is to assist decision makers selecting new data transport methods and infrastructures. 

This paper is designed to assist CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, Accounts Payable managers and ERP system administrators in learning, planning and evaluating automation of accounts payable processes to gain added efficiency in today's competitive business environment.