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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V.

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What we did do is model the licensing and implementation cost advantage claims independently, comparing typical environments and using list price for all competitive licenses and Open pricing for Microsoft (available to most organizations). Do these features yield cost savings that make the purchase price savings moot?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

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But up-front purchase price isn’t everything. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998). Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

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The consumer is now in charge: researching specifications, configuring and customizing solutions, getting peer reviews and advice, comparing prices, and “buying now&#. Tom’s ROI and TCO experience began in 1993 with his first entrepreneurial venture, Interpose (acquired by Gartner in 1998).

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The Business Value of Server Virtualization

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 The Business Value of Server Virtualization One of the key issues in IT today is that normal operating expenses consume way too much of the annual budget – 61% on average in most organizations is spent keeping the lights on, and 25% spent on regular migrations and upgrades. to 1 consolidation ratio.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

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Indeed, if one examines basic IT infrastructure like servers, storage and basic applications such as e-mail, Mr. Carr’s assertions are completely correct - that indeed most infrastructure solutions have become commodities with uniform products, standardization and little pricing power for the IT solution providers.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: ShoreTel And Alinean Launch Online TCO.

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Results from the ShoreTel TCO Tool are supported by ShoreTel’s Lowest TCO Guarantee program, so that if ShoreTel’s TCO Tool and/or additional independent data determine our TCO is higher than a competing solution, ShoreTel will lower its price to beat the competition. Tom then served Gartner as a Managing VP.

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May all who sail in her find reasonably priced shipping supplies from a broad (and competitive) selection of maritime vendors… ShipServ… Read more… Roger Warner | April 15th, 2008 | no comments New White Paper Available: How to PPC in B2B Hey! ’ question still rages in B2B - and nowhere more so than here at Velocity.