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The Greening of SaaS

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Overview Are your energy costs going up? Are unbudgeted software and hardware costs hurting your bottom line? Consider switching to Software as a Service (SaaS), and replace unexpected outlays with fixed, predictable expenses. SaaS reduces or eliminates costs related to installing, deploying and supporting standalone software. It can also free you from local server and infrastructure support. With SaaS, you'll green up your IT environment by reducing local energy and resource consumption, and offload the responsibility for proper equipment disposal from your organization to the SaaS provider. This white paper details the benefits of SaaS and how it can boost your green IT quotient.

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Publisher	MessageLabs, now part of Symantec	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Management, Software Engineering, MSP, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Application Development

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Channel:
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Channel:
Public Sector
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government,
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green

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