Get the big numbers and show importance (Score 0)

What is important with CxO's is that they need to justify their spendings. So if they have a unit of sys-admins, which do something, but they do not know what, they will see it as a potential to cut your budget, and save money.

So you have to show him some figures about the size of your systems. Are you running important infrastructure for the company? If so you should give him estimates of:

• How much "money" is the data in these systems worth?
• What is the cost pr hour or day if the system is down? $1,000 or $1,000,1000?
• What if data is lost? How much can be lost? $1,000 or $1,000,000 or $1,000,000,000?
• What is your systems reliance? Do they run with 99,99% uptime?
• How much support do they generate? Is it possibility to reduce the support need, by improving the system?

Remember that if you give him sensible info about these things, you might get a better budget and more arm-space.