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Reducing TCO With Windows Vista: Quantified Savings for Mobile PCs

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Overview Mobile PCs (notebook PCs, Tablet PCs, and Ultra-Mobile PCs) are forecasted to become the dominant PC form factor in large and medium organizations by 20101. As the mobile PC-centric world approaches, reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of mobile PCs while improving service and security levels for mobile workers is a high priority for any CIO or IT manager. Since PCs and their supporting infrastructure represent 30 to 45 percent of an IT budget2, IT staff will need to augment their strategy and technologies to deal with a new set of mobility challenges, such as managing resources off the corporate network and ensuring security outside the corporate firewall.

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Publisher	Wipro Technologies	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	ROI - TCO, Mobile - Wireless Communications, Windows Vista

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