BlueBackUp Revolutionises Disaster Recovery by Introducing an Affordable DR Plan for Businesses

Brussels (PRWEB) July 11, 2009

Implementing a business recovery plan can be both complex and costly. Also, in the light of the current economic crisis, it comes a no surprise to learn that almost 50% of companies employing between 100 and 1,000 staff prefer not to invest in a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan.

There can be a number of reasons for this: the cost of investment may be too high, the business may lack infrastructure or be short of qualified staff. Also, by calling on a company that specialises in DR that also supplies backup offices and hardware, businesses are still ultimately responsible for the most critical part of the recovery process: rebuilding their servers and IT data.

BlueBackUp’s new Disaster Recovery offering represents a highly attractive alternative for companies that do not have the budget or infrastructure needed to establish a full DRP.

1) How does the BlueBackUp Disaster Recovery Plan work?

If there is a server crash or serious incident in the office, the customer’s data is restored on physical/virtual servers at BlueBackUp’s data centre (DR site).
During the time it takes for new servers to become operational, the customer can connect remotely (via a VPN connection) to the DR site, where its critical applications will have been restored. This enables customers to restart their business within a very short space of time (3, 12, 24, 48 hours, etc.).
BlueBackUp can also make backup offices and hardware available to companies that need them.
Unlike other Disaster Recovery providers, BlueBackUp takes responsibility for rebuilding the customer’s applications – which represents a genuine added value in comparison with conventional DR services.

2) What are the main benefits of BlueBackUp compared with a conventional DRP?

Business operations are back up and running within a very short space of time should disaster strike, plus greater flexibility of service : in cases where customers are already backing up their data at our data centres, BlueBackUp is in the ideal position to help them recover their data very quickly. Customers can choose the actual amount of time it takes to restart their business.
No need to worry about the maintenance and cost of a disaster recovery site or finding replacement hardware : Emergency spare servers are maintained by BlueBackUp at its own data centre. BlueBackUp handles the task of finding backup offices for customers who need it.
Unlike conventional Disaster Recovery Plans, it is BlueBackUp itself that takes charge of the entire procedure of rebuilding data.
Customers can also test the disaster recovery plan with a few mouse-clicks so that they are ready should disaster strike one day.

“Being able to guarantee business continuity should a major problem occur is a real worry for companies”. explains Philip Wittmann, BlueBackUp’s founder. “But not at any price – especially in the current economic climate. With BlueBackUp and by combining backup and Disaster Recovery, every company can now protect itself against these serious risks, as well as implement a Business Continuity Plan that will deliver unbeatable value for money, whatever its size and scope.”

BlueBackUp is the first online backup service to offer its customers a complete Disaster Recovery solution. And by expanding its offering even further in the wake of the recent launch of exclusive data restoration tools, BlueBackUp clearly intends to set the benchmark by positioning itself as THE specialist in protecting IT data.

For further technical information about the Disaster Recover solution proposed by BlueBackUp, please visit http://www.bluebackup.com.

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BlueBackUp Revolutionises Disaster Recovery by Introducing an Affordable DR Plan for Businesses

The City of Mission Viejo Implements World-Class Disaster Recovery Plan

Irvine, Calif. (PRWEB) August 19, 2009

The city of Mission Viejo recently implemented a new disaster recovery plan using cutting-edge technology to reduce costs, without sacrificing performance and efficiency.

Public safety and disaster preparedness being primary goals for the city, and wanting to continue to provide the most consistent and proficient service to city residents and customers, Mission Viejo city officials decided to employ a new state-of-the-art disaster recovery plan.

Reducing energy consumption and cost, without sacrificing performance and effectiveness, were priorities for Mission Viejo officials. Additionally, in order to optimize their infrastructure, they wanted to consolidate two data centers, which were managed at the same location, and create an environment capable of providing IT staff with the flexibility to accommodate their swiftly growing and changing services.

With the need for an innovative cost efficient solution, the city worked with Govplace for the creation and execution of an improved disaster recovery plan. Govplace, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., has extensive experience with similar challenges at other public sector organizations. Due to their exclusive public sector focus, Govplace was an ideal choice to be able to assess and develop a solution based on the City’s unique needs.

The ultimate solution included consolidating physical servers, upgrading the storage area network (SAN) and establishing a main VMware ESX server farm. Utilizing a combination of virtualization, disk-to-disk backup with de-duplication, and replication technologies, the city of Mission Viejo virtualized 80% of their servers, and now boasts 50% reduction in its data center footprint. The fully replicated environment at the disaster recovery site outside of Orange County will allow the city to continue providing necessary services to citizens and ensure critical taxpayer needs are met in the event of a disaster or emergency.

“Govplace was a great partner, who came up with the right innovative solution for Mission Viejo’s unique needs,” said Jackie Alexander, Director of Information Technology for the city of Mission Viejo, “Their exclusive focus on the public sector was a definite asset to understanding our needs and in designing a solution that best suits us.”

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The City of Mission Viejo Implements World-Class Disaster Recovery Plan

Fastrack Offers Clients Disaster Recovery Plan

Plainview, NY (Vocus) September 30, 2010

Clients of the FASTRACK Healthcare Systems web enabled solutions automatically receive the benefit of a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. Today Fastrack announced the availability of disaster recovery to clients that maintain their own servers to run the Fastrack Home Care applications.

All businesses experience some type of business interruption – whether it be hardware failure, operator error or a malicious attack. The below studies and statistics show that these significant events happen with alarming frequency and that the affects can be devastating to a business.

93% of business that lost their data center for 10 days went bankrupt within one year (National Archives & Records Administration)
43% of companies experiencing disasters never re-open, and 29% close within two years (McGladrey and Pullen)
1 out of 500 data centers will have a major outage each year (McGladrey and Pullen)
80% of all data centers will have one major event every 5 years (Gartner)
Almost 60% of companies incurred significant financial damage in the past year
1 out of 4 organizations had a significant disruption in their computer systems – 25% of those disruptions lasting longer than 24 hours
According to Spencer Kay, President of Fastrack Healthcare Systems, Inc., In our 17 years of operation we have witnessed clients that are running their own servers be the victims of natural disasters such as Katrina, as well as fire, theft and hardware crashes. Fastrack has been able to bail out clients that have good recent back-ups by loading their data into their Web hosted solution. By simply connecting to the Internet providers are up and running virtually instantaneously. Unfortunately many providers fail to insure proper back-up procedures and most still rely on the traditional tape back-up method.

For this reason, Fastrack offers Instant Recovery a service that utilizes a secure on-line connection that automatically backs up the clients data on a regular basis. In the event of a disaster the clients database can be recovered in 60 seconds and Fastrack can provide access over the Internet to its servers.

In 1999 Fastrack became the first software vendor to offer a Web Hosted accessible solution for HME and Home Infusion Pharmacies, eventually expanding to Home Healthcare Agencies. Fastracks secure hosted environment includes:

Fully redundant Internet Providers
Redundant Power Generators with 72 hour capacity
Fire suppression systems
24 hour security monitoring
Automatic data back-up with instant recovery
Fastrack also offers Workgroup Recovery through a business partner that provides a full office or mobile working environment anywhere in North America in the event of a disaster that prevents a client from using their office space. This solution provides computer workstations, printers & fax machines, power, Internet access and call center capabilities.

Fastrack is the leading supplier of software & technology to Home Medical Equipment providers, Durable Medical Equipment, Respiratory Providers, Home Infusion Pharmacies & Home Healthcare Agencies. Only Fastrack offers a solution for each individual segment of Home Care as well as one system encompassing virtually every clinical, operational and financial aspect of a providers business, offering several or all of these product/service lines within one integrated Microsoft SQL database. For further information contact FASTRACK Healthcare Systems, Inc. 255 Executive Drive, Plainview, N.Y. 11803; 1-800-520-2325, fax: 516-349-8875, or e-mail them at: info(at)fastrk(dot)com or visit their Website: http://www.onlyfastrack.com.

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Fastrack Offers Clients Disaster Recovery Plan

Do You have an Escape Plan for Your Business Phone System?

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) January 20, 2011

Vintalk, Vinculum Communications Inc., a global provider of wholesale, business and consumer IP communication services, fully launches its Disaster Recover product after 3 months of successful beta testing.

Vintalk Disaster Recovery product is a remote backup phone system for your business that is an instant, automatic failover. Acting as a standby virtual Private Branch eXchange (PBX), it can mirror your primary phone system and take over if your high speed internet circuit or on-site PBX fails. Not having access to your phone system means you can’t communicate with clients, suppliers or employees. This can potentially cost businesses hundreds to thousands of dollars every minute the phone system is down.

Vintalk Disaster Recovery is our opportunity to provide clients with automatic PBX failover when using our Vintalk Sip Trunking service. Should their PBX suddenly go RNA (Ring No Answer) or ATB (All Trunks Busy), a hosted virtual auto-attendant is triggered to mimic the original PBX auto attendant. Inbound calls are routed to virtual extensions permitting calls to be delivered via cell phones or voice mail messages delivered by email. The goal is to provide automatic failover so our clients customers never even know there is an outage. Kristy Thomas, COO for Vintalk.

Basex, Inc., a leading knowledge research firm, has estimated that a typical 500-person company would lose over $ 90,000 per day without phone system business continuation. A study from the Business Research Institute revealed that of all the recovery points necessary in the event of a disaster, (data loss, employee management, notifications, etc.) 65 percent of businesses surveyed said telecommunications was the weakest link.

“PBX backup is one of the most overlooked aspects of business continuity planning until its too late. Businesses go to great lengths to back up their data, co-locate their servers, and otherwise protect the vital parts of doing business, but forget that their PBX is a large part of what connects them with their customers. Now they have Vintalk Disaster Recovery to help cover that gap. Jayson Jones, VP of Vintalk Channel Sales.

About Vintalk, Vinculum Communications Inc.

Vintalk Communications, Inc. is a leading, global provider of wholesale and retail IP communication services. Vintalk owns and operates a best-of-breed voice over IP (VoIP) network which provides origination and termination services to telecommunications carriers. This service includes a full suite of IP communication services to small and medium sized business customers, and VoIP calling services to residential consumers worldwide. Vinculum is headquartered in San Diego, CA and markets its services under the Vincomm, Vintalk and Vincall brands. For more information please visit http://www.vintalk.com or call 888.255.8877.

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HEROware Announces All New Program To Help The Channel In The Tough EconomyThe HERO-Defender+ Stimulus Plan

San Clemente, California (PRWEB) October 28, 2011

HEROware (http://www.heroware.com), a leader in SMB backup and disaster recovery solutions, announced today the immediate availability of the all new HERO-Defender+ Stimulus Plan. The HERO-Defender+ Stimulus Plan is intended to help Partners increase their sales and margins by matching any competitors invoice and also giving them their first month of HERO-Defender+ services for free. This can mean hundreds to thousands of dollars in rewards to active partners, which can be used to entice customers to buy now or to increase the partners margins.

The HERO-Defender+ Stimulus Plan is available now and will run through the end of 2011. It is available only on new installations of the HERO-Defender Server Replication Stack and is not available with any other HEROware products.

HERO-Defender+ B.Y.O.Box Server Replication Stack

The HERO-Defender+ joins the HEROware line of server protection and disaster recovery solutions. The HERO-Defender+ is built from state of the art replication technology from Double-Take

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Sound Telecom Advises Businesses To Have A Plan B This Winter

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) December 15, 2011

Many weather forecasters in the Seattle area are predicting severe winter weather toward the end of November and early December. Unfortunately, many businesses and government agencies are caught off-guard by the inclement weather. National answering service provider Sound Telecom has some advice for local business.

With the winter weather comes the typical outcomes for businesses:

Sound Telecom Advises Businesses To Have A Plan B This Winter

Dolly Drive Launches Family Plan for Online Mac Backup in Time for Holidays

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 23, 2011

Cirrus Thinking, makers of the award-winning Dolly Drive cloud storage for Mac, has unveiled a new family plan that enables multiple Macs to backup online via one paid account.The free admin capability will make it more affordable and easier for multi-Mac users and multi-Mac families to extend Dolly Drives storage services across multiple Macs in a household. Analysts are predicting upwards of 5 million new Mac sales this quarter with many expected to be the second, third and even fourth Mac in a family.

Family plans give people affordable insurance that the digital life on all of their Macs is safe, backed up, and available from the cloud, said Anthony Palermo, CEO of Dolly Drive. Whether its parents making sure their kids are backed up, or multi-Mac owners consolidating their backup efforts, Dolly Drive now lets every household personalize their cloud to match their needs.

Dolly Drive has also introduced a revamped inclusion assistant that automatically selects the folders that are most essential for backup and easily and accurately estimates how much space it will require. Users can add or subtract additional folders as desired.

Dolly Drive is an all-in-one subscription software and online storage service designed for Mac. In addition to providing Mac users offsite cloud storage directly through Apples Time Machine application, and online storage to expand hard drive space, the application allows users to create a bootable clone of their Mac on an external hard drive for local disaster recovery. It works with Apples Lion and Snow Leopard platforms. See more at http://www.dollydrive.com or this January at CES and MacWorld.

About Cirrus Thinking

Cirrus Thinking was founded in 2009 by a pair of passionate Apple fans with the goal of delivering the critical advantages of cloud services to Apple users at the consumer, small businesses and enterprise levels. The first product Dolly Drive, an online backup solution for Apples Time Machine launched in 2011 and was named MacLife Magazines Best Software and Best of Show at MacWorld 2011. Cirrus Thinking has offices in New York and Miami, with data centers located in the United States and Europe.

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w2bi, Inc. and Rohde & Schwarz Offer a New Optimized Solution for Global System Selection Device Certification Test Plan

South Plainfield, NJ (PRWEB) October 18, 2012

w2bi, Inc. and Rohde & Schwarz proudly announce a new solution for compact deployment of Automated Global Mode System Selection test setup. Combining w2bis industry proven automated test software infrastructure with the industry leading R&S

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FailSafeSolutions Launches New Dedicated Online Backup and Disaster Recovery Assurance Service Plan

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 19 September 2012

FailSafeSolutions is an industry leading Online Backup and Disaster Recovery Assurance plan solutions provider. FailSafeSolutions service offering for Cloud based Online Backup, Disaster Recover or Business Continuity plans caters for individuals, small business and enterprise corporate clients.

FailSafeSolutions DR Assurance Service for Virtual Machines (VM) is specifically designed for use with VMware ESX, ESI and VSphere. The Disaster Recovery Assurance Service allows the end user to easily configure a set of recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Disaster recovery tests can be executed without any human interaction.

The disaster recovery tests performed on the VM has no impact on the clients production systems. The test can performed hourly, daily or weekly. FailSafeSolutions failover testing is industry leading as most DR Solutions at best gets tested quarterly but generally on an annual basis. The DR failover tests are coherent and dependency aware recovery policies. The VM are tested in a sandbox environment to ensure the VM is compliant.

FailSafeSolutions Disaster Recovery Assurance Service Plan creates certified recovery points that provide snapshots to cover against data corruptions, bad software upgrades or security patches, sabotage or other logical disasters unlike the traditional use of replication. The snapshots can be hourly or daily.

FailSafeSolutions Online Backup is a convenient form of backing up electronic data. Losing data is something that happens. Yes data loss is inevitable and it is going to affect everyone at some stage. Files can be lost in many ways, most of which are beyond your control.

The most common reasons for data loss are:

Human Error

Software Failures

Viruses

Natural Disasters

FailSafeSolutions Online Backup provides cost saving and is the number 1 reason for online backup as it is easier to set up and run than other options. No hardware purchase, maintenance or repair is need. No need to manage consumables like tape media rotation schedules.

Online backups can typically be configures for automatic backup schedules, increasing productive time for other tasks. Online Backup is simple and easy to manage. No requirement to arrange for storage of tape media, onsite or offsite. No need to worry about media degrading or becoming obsolete. Online backup programs can offer features not available in media based backups, such as data synchronizing.

All backup data is available online with an internet connection. The backup data is encrypted by the end users computer or server before sending and storing it online in a secure format ensuring a very high level of security. The online backup data can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

The Online Line Backup service agents include granular restore of Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes giving the ability to restore individual items. FailSafeSolutions Online Line Backup has built in protection for servers and workstations.

FailSafeSolutions Disaster Recovery for VMware has been designed from the ground level up. The DR solution has built-in features that support small to enterprise cloud deployments.

FailSafeSolutions Reliable-DR has built-in support for complex business applications. The disaster recovery service enables companies to ensure Recover Time Objectives (RTO) is achieved within an agreed Services Level Agreement (SLA). This is done through the use of set policy rules, with service measuring ensuring compliance.

Any compliance deviations are reported through the client dashboard and by an email. Fully Automated Non-Disruptive Disaster Recovery Testing! End users is able to choose their own level of Continuous DR testing (hourly, daily, and weekly).End users have the ability to fail-over the disaster recovery systems at the push of a button.

The Disaster Recovery Solution has a Zero foot print in the production site. Application Aware Disaster Recovery Vertical integrated disaster recovery of each component involved in disaster recovery service delivery. This includes storage and applications.

Flexible Disaster Recovery that supports all Microsoft Windows and Linux x86 based applications. Highly scalable Disaster Recovery with built-in support for array-based replication and snapshots. The solution includes software based disaster recovery replication. FailSafeSolutions supports direct connection from private networks to the public cloud disaster recovery center.

For more details about FailSafeSolutions please contact them here.

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ShoreGroup Announces Successful Deployment of Disaster Response Plan to Support Clients Impacted by Hurricane Sandy

New York, NY. (PRWEB) November 01, 2012

NEW YORK, NY. November 1, 2012 ShoreGroup, Inc., a premier professional services and software solutions firm, today announced the successful deployment of its disaster response plan to support its clients impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The companys multifaceted plan includes remote deployment of client-specific processes to prepare for site shutdown, high-alert monitoring of networks and routine client communications during the closure, and support to clients when bringing the site back online.

At the first indication of Hurricane Sandys projected path, ShoreGroups management team activated the companys disaster response plan. Customer sites within the potential strike zone were identified, and personal contact was initiated to assess each clients up to the minute preparedness plans and confirm the integration points to ShoreGroups Support Center. ShoreGroup continually monitored the storms trajectory over the course of the week for the latest visibility to the areas and clients that could be impacted. As the storm approached, ShoreGroup mobilized its virtualized support resources in 24 states in preparation for the expected influx of activities to support the major networks of clients in the affected areas. In addition, ShoreGroup implemented its internal disaster preparedness plan to prepare its staff and facilities located in the northeast, and test redundant power and circuit resources within its hardened Support Center in advance of the storm.

While clients took important steps to physically secure and close facilities, ShoreGroups engineering team proceeded to remotely implement planned system configuration changes to re-direct calls and network services to facilities outside of the storms path. ShoreGroups Support Center continually monitored systems and applications at the client sites, with system issues or loss of services being reported to the clients designated personnel during the closure. As an onsite systems management solution, ShoreGroups CaseSentry has the resiliency to circumvent support interruption and remain accessible to clients for management of infrastructure and applications during the most difficult conditions. ShoreGroup is currently assisting clients restore vital network and communications services and return to normal business operations.

While we have confronted other disasters, the number of our national and international customers having major operations within the area impacted by Hurricane Sandy makes this an unprecedented one, said James Firenze, ShoreGroups Vice President of Managed Services. Our customers view ShoreGroup as a strategic partner. We operate as a valued extension of their in-house support team and share mutual goals. By integrating our plans to respond to disasters, customers can leverage the additional resources of our remote support team during their time of need and minimize the impact to their business. We value the strong relationships we have with our customers, and our disaster response plan will remain in place until services at all sites have been restored.

About ShoreGroup, Inc.

ShoreGroup provides industry-leading management applications, maintenance services, professional services and product solutions for unified communications and contact centers, virtualized data centers and networks.

ShoreGroup develops innovative, automated management software applications on its dynamic CaseSentry

ShoreGroup Announces Successful Deployment of Disaster Response Plan to Support Clients Impacted by Hurricane Sandy

IVDesk Announces Plans to Become Publicly Traded - Growing Demand Prompts Accelerated Growth Plan

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (PRWEB) October 15, 2012

In response to increased demand for its IT solutions, IVDesk today announced plans to become a publicly traded company through its holding company, IVDesk Holdings Inc. The public registration statement is planned for early 2013.

IVDesk started as a small business with an innovative solution focused on providing small and medium businesses access to IT equipment and services once reserved for Fortune 500 companies, IVDesk CEO Bill Sorenson said. We are launching this public process to allow us to accelerate our growth to meet increasing demand for our solution and allow others to benefit from our success. After perfecting our hosted services offering in the marketplace, we believe we offer a mature and trusted solution.

The company holds its business assets in the Delaware holding company. IVDesk recently closed on the initial round of financing that will be used to expand the companys sales, marketing and customer support resources.

IVDesk Holdings, Inc., the parent company, will continue to maintain its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. IVDesk retains all of the executives and employees that have successfully built and matured the business. IVDesks investors include fund managers and business leaders supportive of the companys growth plans.

Our existing customers will see no change in our day-to-day operations or support, IVDesk President and COO Jim Polakowski said. These actions provide a major positive impact on our ability to grow while maintaining our commitment to uncommon customer service and support.

About IVDesk

IVDesk provides small-to-mid-sized businesses with a secure, reliable and surprise-free way to run IT. The company provides a complete outsourced IT solution for customers. This includes hosting all of a customers desktop and application services, providing 24/7 helpdesk support, and providing complete backup and disaster recovery solutions. This increases customer data security, improves employee uptime, increases mobile accessibility and eliminates IT hassles and surprises, while reducing IT costs by up to 50 percent over in-house IT solutions. IVDesk was a pioneer in hosted IT outsourcing, and continues to lead the industry as more and more organizations move to a pay-for-use model for their IT services.

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Plan for the Unexpected with Data Protection; Get Your First 3 Month"s Free* by Choosing Webhosting.net for Disaster Recovery

Miami, FL (PRWEB) November 19, 2012

Webhosting.net, an industry leader, is now offering an affordable data protection and virtualization for VMWare by providing Disaster Recovery for customers who are using Veeam for their backup needs. By leveraging Veeam’s replication technology to copy critical data to the Webhosting.net data centers allows customers to perform active or passive recoveries into the Virtual Infrastructure for data restoration.

Webhositng.net is offering for a limited time the first three months of service for free with a signed 12 month contract. The Back-up Management plan helps small to medium size businesses (SMBs) put in place an affordable disaster data recovery plan. This provides any size company the confidence that their data is backed-up through all disasters natural or otherwise.

Webhosting.net also helps SMBs by eliminating the costly fees and surprise IT expenses that inevitably accrue when owning equipment. The SMBs are able to receive a complete solution for a fixed monthly fee without accruing the price of software licenses, servers and maintenance because those fees are absorbed by Webhosting.net; allowing customers to rent high-end corporate technology worry-free.

Webhosting.net is an award winning data protection business offering:

State-of-the-art network-switching architecture using Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) for maximized capacity, improved performance, speed and reliability

Veeam Backup Management which combines Veeam Backup & Replication in a single integrated solution for powerful, easy-to-use and affordable data protection and virtualization management

100% scheduled up-time with financially backed service level agreements (100% SLA)

Email support, plus 24/7/365 live phone-based Tier-1 support for IT administrators

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Bridgetown, Barbados (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 The new mobile calendar for things to do in Barbados, WhatsOnInBarbados.com, is not just another calendar. It is designed for the future of mobile travel and solves one of the biggest issues in design and accessibility for the diverse range of devices and platforms for mobile. The problem is that there are hundreds of mobile devices and operating systems. Building native Calendar apps (for an iPhone or an Android app etc) is not always the smartest way to go, as the cost of development and maintenance for all devices is unsustainable for a small team. A web based Calendar is, on the other hand, universally accessible without having to download apps, which can be irritating for travelers who just want to get the news on things to do, now. Websites for mobile, however, are often too general and do not take advantage of the special features and resources of the different platforms and devices. The solution is a smart web based platform that responds and configures itself to the device in an intelligent way. In this solution, the software not only reconfigures the information and graphics for each specific device it also accesses and uses native features like the date picker built into the device, just as a native app would. Kathy-Lynn Ward, COO of AXSES (the company behind the BTE) and developer of a range of tourism technology including several other travel apps, says “Using HTML5 and the jQuery has helped us build a smart Calendar platform that can now be tweaked to work with every device with relative modest effort.” What that means is that as new devices come out and old ones change, the smart system simply adapts to them. “It is a hybrid of the native app, like iPhone or Android apps, and a website approach”. says Ward. “The difference is that we program the information about events to display differently for each device and even for each orientation in a device.” It is a lot of work upfront but will save a lifetime of work in the future. It is in fact built for the future! WOIB is the most widely used and most complete calendar of things to do in Barbados. THE BTE website, Barbados.org, is also the most extensive website of Barbados tourism and the most popular according to the Alexa competitive rank. The BTE calendar has been a feature from early days starting in 1996. it has thousands of users and subscribers and a database of numerous attractions, activities, contacts and venues. The BTE has built a grass roots network with all media, tv, newspapers, hotels, local performers, restaurants, bands, tourism operators, museums, universities, theaters and locals who feed in details of vacation happenings on a daily basis. Much of the work in monitoring and creating the venues is automated and all of it is checked and approved in house. The release of this app reflects Whats On In Barbados commitment to promoting the many events happening on the island to both locals and visitors. An increasing number of people are using the Whats On In Barbados platform (including the website, social media posts, Facebook app and weekly newsletter) to keep up with things to do on the island. The newsletter reach is currently 16,000 subscribers. For January to November 2012, there were 400,000 referrals from the Whats On website to view event descriptions, and an additional 25,000 clicks from social media posts. With more people now having access to mobile phones than water and electricity, and more and more using mobiles while on holiday or to plan holidays from home, every tourism operator, hotel and destination absolutely MUST have a mobile app. For more on Barbados Tourism Encyclopedia go to http://www.barbados.org Website Calendar of things to do on island Mobile app of Barbados Events Video on YouTube More Automated Network Monitoring Press Releases Events Calendar of Things to Do In Barbados Goes Mobile for the Booming Market of Mobile Travelers using Smartphones to Plan Holidays at Home and on Location

Bridgetown, Barbados (PRWEB) December 21, 2012

The new mobile calendar for things to do in Barbados, WhatsOnInBarbados.com, is not just another calendar. It is designed for the future of mobile travel and solves one of the biggest issues in design and accessibility for the diverse range of devices and platforms for mobile.

The problem is that there are hundreds of mobile devices and operating systems. Building native Calendar apps (for an iPhone or an Android app etc) is not always the smartest way to go, as the cost of development and maintenance for all devices is unsustainable for a small team.

A web based Calendar is, on the other hand, universally accessible without having to download apps, which can be irritating for travelers who just want to get the news on things to do, now. Websites for mobile, however, are often too general and do not take advantage of the special features and resources of the different platforms and devices.

The solution is a smart web based platform that responds and configures itself to the device in an intelligent way. In this solution, the software not only reconfigures the information and graphics for each specific device it also accesses and uses native features like the date picker built into the device, just as a native app would.

Kathy-Lynn Ward, COO of AXSES (the company behind the BTE) and developer of a range of tourism technology including several other travel apps, says “Using HTML5 and the jQuery has helped us build a smart Calendar platform that can now be tweaked to work with every device with relative modest effort.”

What that means is that as new devices come out and old ones change, the smart system simply adapts to them. “It is a hybrid of the native app, like iPhone or Android apps, and a website approach”. says Ward. “The difference is that we program the information about events to display differently for each device and even for each orientation in a device.” It is a lot of work upfront but will save a lifetime of work in the future. It is in fact built for the future!

WOIB is the most widely used and most complete calendar of things to do in Barbados. THE BTE website, Barbados.org, is also the most extensive website of Barbados tourism and the most popular according to the Alexa competitive rank.

The BTE calendar has been a feature from early days starting in 1996. it has thousands of users and subscribers and a database of numerous attractions, activities, contacts and venues. The BTE has built a grass roots network with all media, tv, newspapers, hotels, local performers, restaurants, bands, tourism operators, museums, universities, theaters and locals who feed in details of vacation happenings on a daily basis. Much of the work in monitoring and creating the venues is automated and all of it is checked and approved in house.

The release of this app reflects Whats On In Barbados commitment to promoting the many events happening on the island to both locals and visitors. An increasing number of people are using the Whats On In Barbados platform (including the website, social media posts, Facebook app and weekly newsletter) to keep up with things to do on the island. The newsletter reach is currently 16,000 subscribers. For January to November 2012, there were 400,000 referrals from the Whats On website to view event descriptions, and an additional 25,000 clicks from social media posts.

With more people now having access to mobile phones than water and electricity, and more and more using mobiles while on holiday or to plan holidays from home, every tourism operator, hotel and destination absolutely MUST have a mobile app.

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Website Calendar of things to do on island

Mobile app of Barbados Events

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Events Calendar of Things to Do In Barbados Goes Mobile for the Booming Market of Mobile Travelers using Smartphones to Plan Holidays at Home and on Location