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Cost/Benefit Case for IBM eServer pSeries, xSeries, TotalStorage & DB2: Deployments in the Consumer Products Industry Sector

Overview This report shows how significant potential benefits could be realized in three areas - IT costs, business costs and strategic benefit, by adopting efficient IT scenarios for the automotive industry. Key initiatives that increase efficiency include consolidating servers, storage and databases; integrating systems, and deploying new technology platforms. The report concludes that five-year IT and business costs for efficient scenarios built around IBM servers, storage and databases could be significantly lower than those built around comparable EMC, HP, Microsoft and Sun.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2004	Downloads	12
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., x86-standard Servers

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