CIOview eUpdate
Would You Like to Super-Size?

Choosing the Right Hardware Size for your Company
The purchase of hardware is a decision that ripples throughout an organization, affecting the cost of software, support and maintenance, facilities, personnel staffing, and downtime. Today, companies are purchasing hardware in a way that is beginning to bear a strong resemblance to supersizing a value meal at a fast food chain - just too much. Could your organization be guilty? It's important to make the right purchase decision to keep your IT budget under control. A 10% supersizing of your 1,000 user CRM application only causes an 8% increase in hardware costs - but adds a whopping half million dollars to your TCO over three years! Check out the White Paper, "Would You Like to Super-Size?" which sheds new light on the subject and offers the best ways to make sure you avoid the super-sizing trap.

Popping Purple Pills:
Is your accounting firm the right gatekeeper for IT Security?
Lovegate, Kibuv and Bobax may sound like the unfortunate names for new generic drugs, but they are not. Instead they are among the most recent worms to be discovered, all three within only a few days. How do you respond to the latest threats, and what about dealing with security issues in general? Clearly you can decide to pour more money into the problem and select from a dizzying array of new security technology, or just augment your Purple Pill regimen, both of which are less than appealing. The good news is that there is a better option. Get the White Paper

Coming Soon: SecurityNOW!
Security, including IT security, is top of mind at most organizations, but evaluating security risk often takes so long, it's out of date by the time the results are delivered. SecurityNOW! from CIOview changes all that by creating a new timeline -- studies that used to take months can now be completed in 2 hours. Using a built-in risk assessment model, companies can complete a preliminary evaluation of their security risk, and the resultant financial implications almost instantly. Data from a variety of network-scanning audit tools can be subsequently loaded into SecurityNow! to generate a detailed appraisal of your risks and current financial situation. SecurityNOW! incorporates the OSSTMM risk assessment methodology, which is applauded as the most complete "open and standard" security methodology, and demanded by regulatory bodies throughout the world. Learn More.

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