CIOview eUpdate
Is Storage the AFLAC Duck of IT?

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 the AFLAC duck of information technology: we know it's there, but until we absolutely need it we probably don't think about it. Analyzing storage takes foresight, planning, and an in-depth understanding of your needs. Most of all, planning storage is a lot of work. So you've got to haunt people to change their behavior and put storage up front. The most typical questions that need to be answered are:

• What will it cost to stay with your current storage environment for the next 3, 4 or 5 years? Which group is driving your overall storage costs? How will your storage costs change if you move from a direct attached or networked storage environment to a SAN?
• What if you add virtualization?

You easily can answer all these questions by using TCOnow! for Enterprise Storage ... no quacking required! Read the storage white paper.

What's Up with BEA?
Twelve months ago Sun and BEA seemed joined at the hip. Now BEA is bidding predominantly Intel 32-bit solutions, and the competitive ground rules in the Web-development arena have changed. Do you know how the economics of BEA change as you move from 32-bit Intel to 64-bit Solaris technology? Do you know how Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) changes if you deploy BEA on Windows, Linux or Solaris? Try this free BEA TCO calculator and see if you qualify for a complementary copy of the Professional Version.

New TCOnow! for Enterprise Storage
CIOview has created a storage analysis tool that allows storage managers to show the storage costs and options for up to 10 different groups of users. For the first time storage managers now have the ability to show each group how their storage requirements not only impact their cost structure but also how their storage needs shape the options for other groups and the company as a whole. Better yet, TCOnow! for Enterprise Storage allows you to see what your costs will look like if you continue with your current storage design as compared to the cost of moving to newer storage technologies. Read more.

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