77 results about "Total cost of ownership" patented technology

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.

One embodiment of the present invention includes a meeting planning tool that contains information about as many different aspects of a meeting as desired, including the cost of the meeting, both in direct expenses and indirect costs to the enterprise or organization, thus allowing a meeting planner to optimize the overall cost of the meeting to the lowest point in a total-cost-of-ownership approach to planning.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The invention provides automatic spot-welding equipment which comprises a support frame, a support plate supported on the support frame, a feeding system, a feeding mechanical arm arranged above the feeding system, a multistation rotating disc, a plurality of spot welding jigs, an automatic spot welding module and a discharging system, wherein the spot welding jigs are distributed on the multistation rotating disc and comprise spot welding platforms; machining grooves matched with to-be-welded electronic devices in shape are formed in the spot welding platforms; the automatic spot welding module is located above the spot welding jigs and comprises a case and a welding head connected with the case; and the discharging system is arranged around the multistation rotating disc. The automatic spot-welding equipment realizes automatic feeding and welding of a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) device, and is high in production efficiency and low in composite cost, and the welded TCO device is higher in precision and yield.