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Janco's data center disaster recovery plan for business continuity includes:

• Identification of the business units and operational objectives.
• Identify & inventory and rank assets based on criticality to the business objectives.
• Rank the threats that pose risks to the critical assets.
• Identify the severity of vulnerabilities in the critical assets.
• Prioritize risks by focusing on assets affected by credible disaster threats and existing vulnerabilities.
• Develop strategies that minimize risk of disaster and maximize ROI.

Janco's Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Template directs you in creating data center disaster recovery plans and providing cost estimates to adapt your facility and technology resources for continuous availability:

• Backup and recovery options for your multi-vendor information technology.
• Internal and external disaster recovery site options.
• Recoverability of your critical infrastructure.
• Protection of your critical business processes.

What is Microsoft is planning to deliver in Windows 7 for enterprise users, as most of these features are consumer-focused.

"I am disappointed that we have been unable to reach an agreement on our proposal. I continue to believe that a combination of our two companies would have created a superior global brand, an unparalleled technology platform and the scale and resources to drive convergence in the marketplace," he said. "Had we been able to execute on our proposal, your shareholders would have received full, fair and certain value for their shares."

"Hard disk drive performance has not kept pace with Moore's Law," said the general manager of the Intel Server Platforms group. "Intel's high-performance SSDs unleash the full performance of the latest Intel Xeon processor-based systems while increasing reliability and lowering the total cost of ownership for a broad range of server and storage workloads."

The SSD improved server, workstation and storage system performance by 100 times* over hard disk drives. A storage model which includes SSDs can also lower energy costs by up to five times, an added benefit for businesses focused on electricity savings.

The product was designed for intense computing workloads which benefit primarily from high random read and write performance. Improved performance, combined with low active power of 2.4 watts, delivers up to 14,000 IOPS per watt for optimal performance/power output. The product also achieves up to 250 megabytes per second (MB/s) sequential read speeds and up to 170 MB/s sequential write speeds, all in a compact 2.5-inch form factor.

The 32GB capacity drive is in production and priced at $695 for quantities up to 1,000. The 64GB version is expected to sample in the fourth quarter with production estimated for the first quarter of 2009.

The new smart phone, available in the U.S. since Sept. 26, sells for $549, a premium price compared to the Apple Inc. iPhone 3G and some other competitors. The higher price is largely because the upfront hardware cost isn't offset by the guarantee of monthly service charges.

Palm Inc.'s Treo Pro smart phone runs Windows Mobile and includes Wi-Fi and GPS. It is being sold without a U.S. mobile operator partner.

A product manager for the Treo Pro at Palm, said Palm decided to unlock the device because business customers wanted to avoid draconian roaming costs when traveling. Palm's decision to include a SIM card slot for various carriers means IT managers can help users cut roaming costs that easily reach $500 a month for a single user who travels through two or three countries.

• Bonding - The quickest way to bond with a customer is to offer the right answer and a positive service experience, every time. By leveraging remote support to quickly diagnose and resolve customer issues, customers know they can rely on you for fast, efficient service.
• Personalization - With operating systems and applications providing an ever-increasing pool of options for personalizing user interfaces and functionality, effective troubleshooting means having an in-depth understanding of each customer's environment and system configuration.
• Empowerment - Empowering customers means changing the way they receive support and freeing them from the burden of long, complex diagnostics. When surveying customers on what they like best about remote support, a frequent response is that while the remote technician is resolving the issue, the customer continues on with their work.

The device will be known as the BlackBerry Storm 9530 and will feature "global capabilities", Verizon said, without providing specifics. It also did not give an exact launch date, saying only that the smartphone is "coming soon".

In discussions with Verizon, the CEO of Janco was told that Verizon was going to disable the native GPS feature of the Blackberry device.  Verizon offers a service called Navagator that is NOT GPS, rather tower to tower service.  If a user is in a location that does not have native Verizon service Navagator will not work.

Technology bloggers and analysts have speculated since early this year that Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM was working on a touch device as an answer to Apple's popular iPhone.

In February, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie told Reuters the company may launch a touch device if consumers want it. And in May, media reports said the touch-screen BlackBerry would be called Thunder and would likely launch in the third quarter of this year.

What we have found is that if you ELIMINATE the ability of individuals using such accounts you losses from invalid credit cards are significantly reduced.

A list of "free" Email account providers is much larger than yahoo.com and gmail.com.   A partial list of these providers is:

• ada.vn
• aperturebay.net
• ariee.org
• dependmail.com
• dodgeit.com
• gmail.com
• googlemail.com
• hotmail.com
• imaginaryfriend.org
• ispdiscovery.com
• juno.net
• mac.com
• netzero.com
• netzero.net
• payaway.every1.net
• plasa.com
• tunisiana.com
• yahoo.com

PCI DSS covers many kinds of vulnerabilities that can exist in electronic commerce, and one of its foremost provisions is to require adequate encryption of cardholder data while it is being transmitted. Specifically, it requires strong cryptography such as 128-bit encryption - the minimum level provided by SSL Certificates for over 99.9% of site visitors. While this level is considered adequate PCI, it will not always be sufficient. To future-proof against faster, smarter methods for code cracking, and against tightened restrictions in response by PCI, companies can enable far stronger 256-bit encryption also available from several vendors, depending on the host system operating system and browser used.