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What Does a CIO Expect from Employees?

What Does a CIO Expect from Employees?

Introduction Performance metrics are measures of the performance and activities of an organization. They generally support a wide range of needs of the company’s stakeholders, including the employees, shareholders, and the customers. Conventionally, majority of the metrics used for assessment of performance within the organizations are finance based.

However, presently, many companies do employ certain metrics that focus heavily on company’s performance in delivering value and fulfilling customer requirements. The metrics that are used for project management, on the other hand, focus on assessing the...

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Aiden.co N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

Inside watch: The Windows Registry

What is the Windows Registry?

The Registry is a centralized, hierarchical database that stores all application settings in standardized form. The registry was introduced with Windows 3.1 and Windows NT, replacing the less advanced mechanism of INI files.

In addition to setting for high level user-installed applications and programs, the Registry contains settings for low level components and devices of the Windows Operating System (OS). The Registry provides features that enhance the OS security and stability. Implemented as a database, it provides database-like features such as atomic updates, strong data typing and versioning and backup/restore services. The Windows OS provides an...

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Paula Rutty N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

Sysinternals – A Multi-toolkit suite for Windows

Sysinternals - A Multi-toolkit suite for Windows

Sysinternals website provides utilities, tools, and technical resources to monitor, diagnose, troubleshoot and manage Windows systems and applications. It is a live service that allows execution of its tools directly from the web without manually searching and downloading them, but just entering the path into Windows explorer. Several freeware tools to administer computers running on Microsoft Windows Operating system are featured in this article. Sysinternals supplies a variety of free utilities to the users for handling several tasks and applications. Some of the categories of utilities featured in Sysinternals suite include file and...

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Larry Anna N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

Basics of Distributed File System (DFS)

Distributed File System (DFS)

Distributed File System (DFS) is a Microsoft technology, which allows an organization to share files across wide area networks. It works through Microsoft Windows servers and use a set of client and server services. DFS offers location transparency and redundancy, in order to improve data availability. This is normally used when system fails to lead the files as a result of shares in multiple different locations. The abbreviation DFS can also be referred to as ‘DFS’ but it is wrong to relate it to (DCE) Distributed Computing Environment. In fact the DCE also used the ‘DFS’...

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kendrick N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

Tips in creating a simple website

What You Need To Know About Creating a Website

Creating a website may sound like intricate work reserved only for computer wizards. Surprisingly, it isn't. Building a website of your own is easier than you may think. The following tips and steps will enable you to create your personal website in less than an hour!

Create your web pages first. Mostly, you can do it in two ways:
  1. Offline. Craft your webpage in any text or word processing document. Make sure that you save your document as a "text", "plain...

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name1000 N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

List of 5 Best Resume Writing Software

Resume Writing Software

With the ever-increasing struggle every day, landing a job has become quite difficult. Here, a quality and professional resume will help a great deal in securing a job. To create a resume without any hassles, you can make use of various resume writing software which helps you in creating a resume in no time. Following are the reviews of the 5 best resume writing software: Resume Maker Professional

The Resume Maker Professional is a software application that comes with over 200 cover letters and 1,250 sample resumes thus...

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briantheslipery N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

History and uses of KVM switches

History and uses of KVM switches

A KVM (keyboard, video, and mouse) or KVM switch is a device that allows you to control many computers using a single monitor, keyboard and mouse. Multiple computers will be connected to a single KVM switch. Modern KVM switches now provide the facility of sharing USB devices and speakers as well.

A standard 4 port KVM switch (connects up to four PCs) KVM History History of KVMs goes back to 1980's. As the computer industry was growing rapidly during this era, IT server rooms began facing the challenge...

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Shyam Kattari N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

Microsoft Office 365 and its 4 important products

All about Office 365

The Microsoft Office 365 consists mainly of four important products. The most important of which is the Microsoft Office professional plus. Other products that come with the package are Exchange online, SharePoint Online and Lyn Online. Mainly designed for official purposes, the office 365 is a complete package that is ready to be implemented in a workspace environment.       The Microsoft Office professional plus comes compete with all the most important document files that are required by working professionals, such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power point and Microsoft...

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Jo Gomes N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

Flavors of SQL and its differences

Flavors of SQL and its differences

To become a SQL expert, what are all that you need to learn? What are all the flavors in SQL and the differences between each? What is a database and what are the benefits and all sorts of details?

Starting-Up: In this session /exercise you will prepare your computer to run SQL*plus To Start Up:
  • Make sure that the ORACLE RDBMS has been installed on your computer.
  • When you see one or more characters on the left side of the screen, the Operating System’s prompt;...

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lydia mutua N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article

5 Network Topology layout and their description

Network Topologies

In I.T world we usually have a computer network for business or personal purposes. The term Topology refers to the layout of computer network or connected devices of an organization. I.T experts consider two types of Topology, one is Physical Topology and the other is Logical Topology. Physical topology consists of computer, hardware devices and cabling structure inside a network. However, logical topology provides an idea that how the data are transmitted from one device to another while using physical topology.

There are commonly five types of a topology. So it depends on the...

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Kelly Tomlinson N/A Written on 05/07/2011 in Article