80 results about "Total cost of ownership" patented technology

A cost oriented profiler (COP) mechanism that analyzes the behavior of input application source code with regard to the software total cost of ownership (TCO). The cost analysis tool provided by the mechanism analyzes the behavior of the source code and generates a cost report with indications as to the portions of the source code that have the most impact on the TCO of the application. Based on simulations and by comparing multiple versions of the source code, the COP mechanism determines if a particular change to the source code will increase or decrease software TCO. Behavior analysis, including static and dynamic analysis of the source code, is used to generate one or more code recommendations to reduce the TCO.

The present invention discloses a system and a method for integrated on-demand delivery of operating system and applications, where operating system images are separate and distinct from application images. Integration of operating system streaming and application streaming services makes streaming delivery possible to a wide range of client devices, including those without any local disk space such as thin-clients and diskless workstations. In addition, by integrating the centralized management of operating system delivery and application delivery, the present invention provides a complete solution to server-centric application management, thereby further reducing the total cost of ownership of network-based computing approach. Implementing the operating management functions at the client machine level of specificity and application management functions at the user level of specificity combined with providing separate and distinct operating system images and application images provides an inherently canonical architecture that allows proper scaling and affords appropriate security management functions. The result is a complete, scalable, robust, and reliable server-centric application and operating system management system with a lower total cost of ownership than existing products.

The present invention discloses a method and system for providing services in an enterprise content management network-attached system, where the enterprise content management functions are provided as an integral part of a storage system. An integrated enterprise content management network-attached system provides a single, unified approach to the entire range of enterprise content management functions from storage management to content and business process management. The result is a robust and reliable complete enterprise content management solution with a lower total cost of ownership than existing products.

The mobile device management system provides for administration of mobile devices associated with a customer and supported by multiple service providers or carriers. The system provides a central, customized interface for management of mobile devices. The system aggregates customer policies, service plan information from various service providers and specific end user information to enable management of mobile devices. Management functions include procurement, expense management, billing and invoicing, support and monitoring of mobile devices associated with the customer. This system and method for managing mobile devices and services keeps the customers mobile workforce connected while reducing the total cost of ownership.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for utilizing e-receipt data and other electronic communication data between a merchant and customer regarding a transaction to provide misappropriation protection based on address and / or merchant store information associated with the e-receipt or other e-communication. In one embodiment, a system is configured to: determine a purchase price paid for the product and costs associated with the product based on purchase transaction data; and determine an estimated total cost of ownership of the product based on the purchase price of the product and the costs associated with the product.

A method for determining the total cost incurred per user of information technology (IT) in a distributed computing environment includes obtaining base costs and ongoing costs of an IT system and applying those costs to a series of metrics. The metrics are compared against benchmarks to evaluate and assess where cost efficiencies can be achieved.

The invention discloses a train real-time monitoring system based on a B / S architecture. The train real-time monitoring system comprises a three-layer mode architecture based on the B / S architecture, and the three-layer mode architecture comprises an uppermost man-machine interaction layer, a middle data processing layer and a lowermost data interface layer. The train real-time monitoring system has the advantages of adaptability and extendibility of the B / S architecture, convenient maintenance and low total cost; the train real-time monitoring system also has real-time communication capacity of an application system under a C / S architecture, operates on the internet, overcomes space and regional limits and can have access to the system through a browser anywhere, a train can be monitored in time whenever and wherever possible, a communication method is simple, network resources are saved, network distribution is convenient to achieve, and the train real-time monitoring system is convenient to use and has good application prospects.

A method of harvesting and managing energy from air currents, by small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) having a plurality of powered and unpowered rotors, to increase the aircraft's flight time, especially where the mission requires extensive hovering and loitering, is provided. Conventional powered rotors create lift for the aircraft. Unpowered rotors can either be: 1) Free-wheeling rotors which increase the plan form area of aircraft as they rotate, increasing lift, and reducing the power draw on the battery, and / or 2) Rotors connected to micro-generators, which serve as a brake on the unpowered rotors, create electrical power to charge the aircraft batteries or directly power the aircraft's electronics. The invention's folding rotor arm design results in a compact package that is easily transported by a single user (man portable). The aircraft can be removed from its protective tube, unfolded and launched for flight in less than a minute. Extended flight times, compact easily transported design, and ability to host flight software on a user's tablet / PC result in low total cost of ownership.

An enterprise computing system is provided that has computing components that each perform a specified computing function for the enterprise. The computing components also have electronic database storage capability that stores data aligned with a predefined model that defines costs to be considered in a total cost of ownership analysis. The enterprise computing system also has a computing component that extracts the stored data aligned with the total cost of ownership data model, and that uses the extracted data to provide an electronic aggregation of costs associated with owning the enterprise computing system.

A common interface to manage heterogeneous databases and develop enterprise class applications is provided. In particular, it is shown that a client-based system and method can: (a) provide a uniform interface for the DBA or the application developer to use across all the database deployments, (b) provide flexibility in the number and kinds of scenarios it can be used, and finally (c) reduce the total cost of ownership for the enterprise.

Disclosed are novel AC-powered LED light engines for Solid State Lighting (SSL) able to achieve a high PF and a low THD without a traditional PFC. Getting rid of bulky, and costly magnetic components, short-life electrolytic capacitor, and EMI-causing fast switching, the disclosed AC-powered LED light engines ushers in a cost-effective, and energy-efficient LED driver design while eliminating the short-life electrolytic capacitor in an LED driver and reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TOC). Thanks to no bulky components, the disclosed AC-powered LED light engines in a discrete or an integrated circuit form could be applied to the increasingly popular Driver-on-Board (DoB) design. Aside from being TRIAC-dimmable via legacy phase-cut dimmers, the disclosed LED light engines could also be made PWM-, analog-, or rheostat-dimmable with the incorporation of an appropriate dimming circuit to modulate the average LED current, adding more flexibility and versatility to dimming applications.

A method and program product that when executed causes the method to be executed are provided. The method is included in performing a total cost of ownership analysis of an enterprise computing system. The method includes extracting, within an enterprise computing system, electronically stored data from predefined data source fields included in the enterprise computing system. The method also includes using the extracted data to provide an aggregation of electronically stored cost information that is structured in conformity with a predefined model that defines a cost structure for assessing total cost of ownership analysis for an enterprise computing system.

Disclosed herein is a data center having a plurality of liquid cooled computer systems. The computer systems each include a processor coupled with a cold plate that allows direct liquid cooling of the processor. The cold plate is further arranged to provide adapted flow of coolant to different portions of the processor whereby higher temperature regions receive a larger flow rate of coolant. The flow is variably adjusted to reflect different levels of activity. By maximizing the coolant temperature exiting the computer systems, the system may utilize the free cooling temperature of the ambient air and eliminate the need for a chiller. A data center is further provided that is coupled with a district heating system and heat is extracted from the computer systems is used to offset carbon emissions and reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for achieving remote memory swap, a device and a system thereof. The method comprises the following steps: a machine page is released from a machine memory of a virtual machine, and the machine page is mapped with a physical page; the content of the physical page mapped with the machine page is transmitted to remote swap space, wherein, the remote swap space is established on a remote physical host computer. The device for achieving the remote memory swap disclosed by the embodiment of the invention comprises a page reclaim module and a remote transmission module. Partial memory of the virtual machine is swapped to the free memory of the remoter physical host computer by the method, the device and the system, and the quantity and the execution efficiency of aggregate virtual machines on a group of host computers are improved to realize higher utilization rate of the physical host computers and the lower total cost of ownership at the premise of fully ensuring the page swapping performance of the virtual machines.

The present invention discloses a system and a method for integrated on-demand delivery of operating system and applications, where operating system images are separate and distinct from application images. Integration of operating system streaming and application streaming services makes streaming delivery possible to a wide range of client devices, including those without any local disk space such as thin-clients and diskless workstations. In addition, by integrating the centralized management of operating system delivery and application delivery, the present invention provides a complete solution to server-centric application management, thereby further reducing the total cost of ownership of network-based computing approach. Implementing the operating management functions at the client machine level of specificity and application management functions at the user level of specificity combined with providing separate and distinct operating system images and application images provides an inherently canonical architecture that allows proper scaling and affords appropriate security management functions. The result is a complete, scalable, robust, and reliable server-centric application and operating system management system with a lower total cost of ownership than existing products.

The invention provides a method for achieving layered storage and copy of data of a storage system. The method achieves that the storage system can automatically copy the data from a high-speed high-cost storage to a low-speed low-cost storage; or when required, the data are automatically copied from the low-speed low-cost storage to the high-speed high-cost storage. According to the method, the data are layered according to access frequency degree, data which are accessed frequently are stored in a high-speed high-cost storage medium containing a solid state disk, and data which dot not be accessed frequently are stored in a high-speed high-cost storage medium containing a high-capacity serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) state disk, so that use rate and disk array performance of a high-speed storage device are effectively improved, and total ownership cost of the disk is reduced. The method for achieving the layered storage and copy of the data of the storage system is effective and simple in design, and capable of achieving the fact that the data flow freely on different storage mediums according to data access frequency under the circumstance that system resource consumption is reduced.

An online investment advisory and management tool providing a system, method and apparatus for analyzing the actual cost of ownership, over time, of mutual funds and comparing those costs to the costs associated with a determined comparable exchange traded fund(s) (ETFs). The method includes an analysis of investment costs and the implicit asset allocation of the funds entered. According to one method, a user inputs mutual fund information into a client and the data is sent to a server. In an alternative embodiment, the user entitles the client to determine actual account information from a third party communicating with the user's financial institution(s). The server analyzes the mutual funds, and determines comparable ETFs. Alternatively, the user may select ETFs. After an ETF is determined, the system provides an analysis of the costs and performance of the mutual funds and the comparable ETFs and estimates the total cost of ownership. The embodiments further include a marketing tool.

A storage comprising an object access module for the shared part for implementing advanced I / O provides an interface (121) for registering and deleting object description data declaring how to store objects within a second storage, in order to reduce the development cost of modules for implementing functions. Also, in order to reduce the total cost of ownership, modules are transferred to the storage through a management computer. The present invention allows the storage for contiguously providing functions effective to a vast range of applications to be provided with lower development cost as well as lower total cost of ownership.

A system, method and computer program product for optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) of a piece of IT equipment, e.g., a hard drive or server, using predictive analytics. The data center environment monitors and measures a number of environment variables, including temperature, Relative Humidity, and corrosion. For each piece of hardware, several pieces of data are assigned, including a criticality measure, an operational cost (function of environment), a static replacement cost, and a downtime cost (function of time). For each piece of hardware, if it has not yet failed, the system predicts a time-to-failure using the environment variables. If predicted time-to-failure exceeds an expected reference life criteria, real time TCO analytics is performed to minimize data center energy usage and / or maximize operational cost-efficiency.

A method and system for consolidating N elements of an enterprise IT structure that consists of L elements (N≦L). All combinations of M elements of the N elements are generated (M<N). M is a specified positive integer of at least 1 and less than N. One or more pairs of combinations selected from all of the combinations are ascertained such that each ascertained pair consists of IT structures S1 and an IT structure S2 which are specifically congruent with respect to each other. Specifically congruent means composition congruent, topologically congruent, interface congruent, composition congruent and topologically congruent, composition congruent and interface congruent, topologically congruent and interface congruent, or fully congruent. At least one pair of combinations selected is consolidated. Consolidating each pair P reduces a goal function G that is a function of a total cost of ownership (TCO) of the enterprise IT structure.

The invention discloses a PaaS cloud implementation method based on containers. The method comprises following steps: saving configuration information of all containers and providing disposition; a deployment strategy ensuring that multiple containers under the same APP are scattered across different hosts; performing management on the host and containers and one physical cluster being corresponding to multiple projects, etc.. Therefore, the introduction of containers into the cloud computing basic resource delivery to provide PaaS layer services is realized, reducing waste of resources caused by the traditional PaaS products using virtual machines, increasing disposition efficiency and reducing exploitation and test period for users; the method is a lightweight VM solution scheme based on process containers, realizing a resource isolation and quota of an application program grade; Compared with the traditional cloud infrastructure system implementation, the container-based cloud service system has lower cost of overall ownership, higher resource utilization and is more stable and reliable, which further enhances the virtualization efficiency, improves resource utilization, accelerates enterprise devops process, and provides fast and effective support services for applications.

The invention discloses a digital addressable lighting control system and a method thereof. The system consists of master nodes and slave nodes numbered from 1 to 64 which are hung and connected on a DALI bus, all the sensors and a PC on which DALI application software runs are connected with the main nodes, and the slave nodes comprise two parts of DALI interface circuits and electronic dimming ballasts and serve as a system actuator for driving fluorescent lamps. The actuator controls the fluorescent lamps according to commands of the main nodes and the preset working parameters, the slave nodes are taken as the system actuator, a control unit thereof reads the real-time working states of the fluorescent lamps and an output module and feeds back to the main nodes by the DALI bus, then the digital addressable lighting control system can not only feed back the real-time state of the control unit of the actuator, but also feed back the real-time states of an executive unit and controlled objects, and maintenance personnel and a user can grasp the full picture and the details of the system. The digital addressable lighting control system adopts the electronic ballasts with separated easily damaged parts and non-easily damaged parts, and only the easily damaged parts need to be replaced during the life cycle of the actuator, thereby effectively reducing the overall owning cost of the user.

Disclosed are novel AC-powered LED light engines for Solid State Lighting (SSL) able to achieve a high PF and a low THD without a traditional PFC. Getting rid of bulky, and costly magnetic components, short-life electrolytic capacitor, and EMI-causing fast switching, the disclosed AC-powered LED light engines ushers in a cost-effective, and energy-efficient LED driver design while eliminating the short-life electrolytic capacitor in an LED driver and reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TOC). Thanks to no bulky components, the disclosed AC-powered LED light engines in a discrete or an integrated circuit form could be applied to the increasingly popular Driver-on-Board (DoB) design. Aside from being TRIAC-dimmable via legacy phase-cut dimmers, the disclosed LED light engines could also be made PWM-, analog-, or rheostat-dimmable with the incorporation of an appropriate dimming circuit to modulate the average LED current, adding more flexibility and versatility to dimming applications.

The invention provides a method for accelerating performance of a computer disk based on disk cache. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining data access frequency information according to the disk, analyzing and processing through a data distribution adjustment unit, correspondingly placing the data with high access frequency into a high performance disk storage space and relatively placing the data with low access frequency into a low performance disk storage space so as to achieve the purposes of improving the access efficiency and reducing the total cost of ownership. A system architecture comprises a data access frequency statistical unit, the data distribution adjustment unit and a release system unit, wherein the data access frequency statistical unit is mainly responsible for counting various data access frequencies; the data distribution adjustment unit, the core of the method, is responsible for placing the data with a large amount of access into a high performance disk and the data with a small amount of access into a low performance disk according to various data access frequencies and feeding back data address change to the release system unit; and the release system unit is responsible for interactive control between a client and the release system unit.

Embodiments of the present inventive concept relate to systems and methods for dynamically allocating and / or redistributing thermal budget to each memory group in a memory array from a total memory thermal budget based on the workload of each memory group. In this manner, the memory groups having a higher workload can receive a higher thermal budget. The allocation can be dynamically adjusted over time. Thus, the individual and overall memory group performance increases while efficiently allocating the total thermal budget. By dynamically sharing the total thermal budget of the system, the performance of the system as a whole is increased, thereby lowering, for example, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of datacenters.

Disclosed are novel AC-powered LED light engines for Solid State Lighting (SSL) able to achieve a high PF and a low THD without a traditional PFC. Getting rid of bulky, and costly magnetic components, short-life electrolytic capacitor, and EMI-causing fast switching, the disclosed AC-powered LED light engines ushers in a cost-effective, and energy-efficient LED driver design while eliminating the short-life electrolytic capacitor in an LED driver and reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TOC). Thanks to no bulky components, the disclosed AC-powered LED light engines in a discrete or an integrated circuit form could be applied to the increasingly popular Driver-on-Board (DoB) design. Aside from being TRIAC-dimmable via legacy phase-cut dimmers, the disclosed LED light engines could also be made PWM-, analog-, or rheostat-dimmable with the incorporation of an appropriate dimming circuit to modulate the average LED current, adding more flexibility and versatility to dimming applications.

The present invention relates to the broadband access network and the method of the QoS Assurance. The main technical proposal of the present invention is that a corresponding ARM (access resource manager) is arranged in the broadband access network. Corresponding logical channels are respectively established between a broadband assess server and all users access equipment. The unified management is processed by the ARM (access resource manager) to the broadband resources of all logical channels. So the QoS assurance can be provided to the transmitting business in the broadband access network according to the wideband resource conditions of each logical channel. The present invention can lead a broadband network operator to support the QoS assurance to a real-time service in the broadband access network range and to distribute the broadband resources to the corresponding businesses according to needs. At the same time, in the present invention, the operator can provides more kinds of services through a signal network, reduces the cost owned by the whole network and creates the biggest value.