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Quick Start: Real World Definitions of Financial Terms: Real-world definitions of financial terms Return on investment have become such a crucial tool for businesses that several techniques have been developed to measure it. ROInow! uses Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and capital budgeting principles to generate the most commonly used financial metrics. ROInow! will generate Return on Investment ROI,...; Tags: Financial, Financial Terms, ROI, CIOview, Roi/Tco, Financial Accounting, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2007-12-01
What Is the True Cost of Storage?: Storage is the AFLAC duck of information technology. Before AFLAC rolled out its pervasive ads featuring a duck quacking "AFLAC!" in humorous situations, not many knew of the company. Now people know AFLAC is an insurance company, but they are not quite sure of the details. Storage is a lot...; Tags: CIOview, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-07-17
CIOview: Should You Migrate From Sybase to SQL Server?: Almost every IT organization is tasked with providing higher levels of service and lowering costs. Databases in particular are under tremendous scrutiny because they have a multiplier effect on the rest of the IT budget and represent a growing level of importance to the business. Consequently, database managers are commonly...; Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Sybase Inc., CIOview, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-08-22
Disk Storage: How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?: The traditional approach of purchasing storage is broken. Comparing the purchase cost per megabyte of one storage array to another misses over 70% of the potential costs and leads to two classic storage management pitfalls. Managers who purchase new storage often focus too much of their attention on the upfront...; Tags: Disk, Window, Disk Storage, CIOview, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2006-04-11
Extending the Lifecycle of a CIO: A Fortune 500 CIO was reportedly let go when their company spent more than $10 million on a new application without a formal specification and design. A system vendor spent $500,000 on a single benchmark and then insisted the customer foot the bill when they selected another supplier. A European...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CIOview, Service Level Management, Strategy, Financial Services, It Operations, It service Management, Management; White papers 2005-12-08

Should You Migrate From Oracle to SQL Server?: This paper is designed as a starting point for database evaluation and migration analysis. It begins by providing a side-by-side Total Cost of Ownership TCO comparison between Oracle and SQL Server 2005 for a variety of the most common database situations. This paper then leads through the performance, migration, and...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Server, TCO, CIOview, Roi/Tco, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software, Data Management, Hardware; White papers 2005-11-30
Taking the Guesswork Out of Security: SecurityNOW!: CIOview, in collaboration with ISECOM, has developed a software product that leads through a structured interview process. In a matter of minutes it will determine the current security risk. In fact, it even will provide a Risk Assessment Value RAV, a standardized method of risk assessment commonly required by banking...; Tags: Risk Assessment, CIOview, Tools & Techniques, Banking, Security, Strategy, Management, Financial Services; White papers 2005-08-30
Virtualization: Benefits of a "Candy Bowl" Strategy: Companies can dramatically reduce the number of servers deployed by implementing a server virtualization effort. Server virtualization brings all the benefits of the candy bowl strategy while at the same time preserving the isolation and orderliness of a goody bag. Virtualization involves creating multiple "Virtual servers" on one physical server...; Tags: Strategy, Virtual Server, Benefit, CIOview, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2005-08-30
Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Solving the Dilemma of 32-Bit Versus 64-Bit Server Architecture: Many traditional IT shops now face a variant of the very same question posed by The Clash: to stay with RISC chips, or go with new 64-bit Intel AMD processors delivering almost equal or better computational power. The Clash's lyrics become almost prophetic when one consider all the elements in...; Tags: 32-bit, CIOview, Clash, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Servers, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking; White papers 2005-08-29