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Five Ways to Reduce Costs for Batch Processing

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Overview IT has largely been forced to use upgrades to ensure they meet batch commitments. While this sometimes delivers timely results, it can also significantly increase costs and further erode the IT cost of ownership position. Fortunately, infrastructure management technology provides alternatives to upgrades; alternatives that deliver more consistent and better batch performance, without the cost impact of repeated upgrades or the business impact of service failures. IT organizations should explore how one or more of these options can help drive down the cost of batch processing.

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Publisher	BMC Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.

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