the corporate IT director (at my job) recently sent the following email.

"We are currently experiencing very high CPU utilization on our portal
DB server.  There is also approximately 9 minutes of latency between
the CVue transactional server and the portal DB.

A number of users have reported slow response time when using the portals.

Also, CEOCIT will be applying a hotfix to CampusVUE LIVE tomorrow
3/29/2006 to fix an issue with Schedule Courses - Edit Detail is not
saving the correct duration.  Therefore, CampusVUE, ImageNow, FLASH
Report, and eFlash applications will be unavailable from 11 PM CST
Wednesday March 29th until 2 AM CST Thursday March 30th."
 
1. What does it mean?
2. What should I do?
3. Have I any cause for alarm?

please comment

I think you certainly have cause for alarm if you have a senior
executive who is stupid enough to send out emails so loaded with
jargon and technical terms that many of his staff will find them
incomprehensible.

Q1. What does it mean? A: It means that the man's an idiot.

Q2. What should I do? A: Get him fired, using every bit of guile and
cunning at your disposal.

Q3. Have I any cause for alarm? A: Yes. Idiots are always a cause for
alarm. Remember Hitler?

I emailed the Editors suggesting that they remove my answer. If you
want to request a refund, you can do so here:
http://answers.google.com/answers/help.html#refund

- Hammer