IDC白皮书基于稳定商用平台的可管理PC案例分析-WHITE.PDFVIP

m W H I T E P AP E R o c . c d i w. A C a s e f o r M a n a g e d P C s E n a b l e d b y S t a b l e B u s i n e s s w P l a t f o r m s w 5 Sponsored by: NVIDIA 1 0 4 . 5 3 David Daoud Flint Pulskamp 9 . 8 0 Shane Rau 5 . F November 2005 0 0 2 8 . 2 I D C O P I N I O N 7 8 . 8 0 Business platform instability is a unique problem for business PC users. When the 5 . P hardware and software components that make up an organizations PCs change ó A S even when the change is meant to take advantage of productivity benefits of new U 1 technology ó it tends to add manageability burden and cost to corporate IT 0 7 departments. IDC research indicates that only 25% of a desktop PCs life-cycle cost 1 0 A of ownership for medium to large organizations is attributed to initial procurement and M m, disposition. The lions share, 75% of a desktop PCs life-cycle cost of ownership, is a h due to operational and management costs, a majority of which are costs associated g n i with upgrading hardware and software and the resulting network/database m a r administration and management. F t e e r t A viable case for reducing these costs can be made by adopting a stable business S n platform, which in effect balances optimum productivity with r