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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: VMware launches new version of ROI / TCO.

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 VMware launches new version of ROI / TCO Calculator Virtualization is one of the key cost savings initiatives that IT executives are implementing in order to tighten their belts in these uncertain economic conditions. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To. Time to upgrade that aging SAN?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: How TCO is a common sense sales and.

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 How TCO is a common sense sales and marketing Tool for Today’s Chaotic Economy My friend and board member Bill Kirwin, original father of TCO analysis with Gartner, put it best when he wrote this article for us on the power of using TCO as a sales and marketing advantage to win deals in these tough economic times.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Let the Good Times Roll? IT Spending on.

The ROI Guy

Although Forrester was predicting 8-9% IT budget growth earlier in the year, its latest survey of 2,800 global CIOs and other IT decision-makers, revealed that their predictions, as were others, were overly optimistic, with the vast majority of respondents indicating that their budgets remained the same in 2010 as they were in 2009.

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

The ROI Guy

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V - better value? 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).

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

Most organizations continue to spend much more on branding and relationship management versus value-based sales and marketing initiatives. Within digital marketing, analyzing the allocations from 2009 to 2010, IDC found that 2010 spending on digital marketing programs is not changing dramatically year over year.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Seeing ROI in the Cloud?

The ROI Guy

With the constant pressure on IT managers to “do-more-with-less&# , and the difficulty to understand how the analyst research translates to particular applications, it is important that organizations analyze their own unique opportunity for cloud savings and ROI. Alinean recognized by BtoB Magazine’s as one of To.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Tech Marketers May Need to Rethink.

The ROI Guy

For example, in organizations where the CEO/President is the final decision-maker, ROI is “Extremely&# or “Very Important&# among 92% of respondents, but that number drops to 86% in organizations where Staff makes purchase decisions.&# people on average, and in the evaluation of particular solutions, at 4.3