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Reduce Your Infrastructure Costs with Best Practices

Organisations of all sizes can achieve significant costs savings by adopting core infrastructure best practices for their key server workloads. Using Microsoft's Core Infrastructure Optimization Model as a framework, your organisation can progress over time from a "basic" level of infrastructure optimisation to a fully optimised and highly efficient "dynamic" level.

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Reduce IT Costs with Server Infrastructure Optimisation This paper shows technical decision makers and IT managers how organisations can reduce costs and improve their IT efficiency by optimising their core infrastructure and adopting server-related best practices. This paper identifies which best practices are most effective in driving IT efficiency to reduce operating costs and free up human and financial IT resources to add more value to the business.	Case Study: Business Management Quality Innovation with Market-Based Global SCM System Implementation Samsung Electronics deployed Microsoft's BI platform to implement its market demand-based supply chain management.
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