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STRATEGIC BACKUP?, PDA’s INet-TV+ (Apr. E-News from 2SS.Com)
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‘ E – N E W S from ‘
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‘ Mailed on: 04/01/2000 8:57 PM Number 21 ‘
‘ Int’l Standard Serial No. - ISSN: 1523-3537‘
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‘ In this issue (4 Items): ‘
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‘ 1--STRATEGIC BACKUP? ‘
‘ 2--PRODUCT WATCH (PDA’s) ‘
‘ 3--QUESTIONS ‘
‘ 4--STRATEGIC-USEFUL–INTERESTING LINKS ‘
‘ 5--WHY SUBSCRIBE?, 2SS.Com & YOUR ‘
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‘ STRATEGIC BACKUP?‘
‘ It’s dull, un-imaginative and not very strategic unless ‘
‘ of course you find yourself missing a file, or worse, ‘
‘ trying to recover from a damaged or destroyed ‘
‘ computer. ‘
‘ Most of us know the worst enemy of good regular ‘
‘ and comprehensive backups is long-term success. But ‘
‘ there is certainty in not being backed-up. It is that ‘
sooner or later you’ll wish you were. ‘
‘ At 2SS.Com we believe the Golden Rule of backups is….’
‘ KEEP IT SIMPLE! ‘
‘ To do that we prefer to acquire backup tools that have ‘
‘ two to four times the current backup requirement for ‘
‘ the entire system. That permits growth and makes ‘
‘ both backup and recovery simple. ‘
‘ A typical implementation might be a 12-24GB DAT ‘
‘ tape unit for a 10 GB hard disk. This means 12GB ‘
‘ ‘as-is’ or 24GB compressed. In-turn you can put in a ‘
‘ tape every day (we label them Mon., Tues., Wed., etc.) ‘
‘ and then get extras to insure you have a new tape ‘
‘ for each Friday. If you also replace the last day of the ‘
‘ month with a new tape you end up being able to: ‘
‘ * Have all files available for recovery every day ‘
‘ * Have different versions of files if a bad one gets ‘
‘ backed-up and you’d like to get back a good version ‘
‘ of it ‘
‘ * Have historical access to files for the current month ‘
‘ and with the monthly replacement even a year or ‘
‘ two or more. ‘
‘ As you see our first rule of thumb is DON’T DO ‘
‘ BACKUP cheap, Do it SIMPLE. This translates to ‘
‘ a backup system that works. And the reasoning is
‘ simple too. A backup system must work simply or ‘
‘ its NOT very valuable. Maybe useless. ‘
‘ So, you might experiment with or supplement backups ‘
‘ using selective, incremental and/or differential backup ‘
‘ capabilities but don’t use them to save money. We ‘
‘ believe the strategic and ultimately most cost- ‘
‘ effective solution is to avoid all the organization, ‘
‘ change just one tape every day and PULL some out ‘
‘ once a week and at month end to go off-site to a safe ‘
‘ cool and dry place. Simple? ‘
‘ P.S. Remember to also consider power backup, disaster ‘
‘ recovery backup and as above simple hardware/software ‘ failure backups. ‘
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‘ PRODUCT WATCH ‘
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‘ QUARTZ COMMUNICATOR ‘
‘ The Palm pilot currently has 2 to 3 million users, ‘
‘ enough for developers, users, component ‘
‘ manufacturers, etc. all to be interested. But, a ‘
‘ new Quartz device is being introduced by the ‘
‘ Symbian consortium (introduced at the CeBIT ‘
‘ computer show in Germany) that demonstrates ‘
‘ the reality of soon to be available handheld
‘ devices with features like PCS telephony,
‘ streaming multimedia, Web browsing and ‘Palm ‘
‘ Pilot –like’ computing. ‘
‘ The day is coming fast when cell-phone ‘
‘ subscribers will upgrade their digital handsets ‘
‘ to something like the Quartz Communicator. And ‘
‘ the bad news for PDA manufacturers (like Plan ‘
‘ Computing) could be a price tag of ZERO ‘
‘ ($0.00). Low prices accompanied by monthly ‘
‘ service contracts should see "smart" phones and ‘
‘ communicators take a BIG slice of the cellular ‘
‘ and PDA markets in 2002-2003. ‘
‘ AOLTV? ‘
‘ Watch (literally) for AOLTV this summer which ‘
‘ should start up with a potential for 20 MM ‘
‘ viewers who will be able to live chat curing their ‘
‘ favorite soaps or even as part of the daily ‘
‘ investment news. The GartnerGroup’s ‘
‘ Dataquest division reports over 27MM adults ‘
‘ currently watch TV while surfing the Web which is ‘
‘ up from 8MM 1998 ‘
‘ Merrill Lynch senior Internet analyst, Henry ‘
‘ Blodget, predicts that AOL "is in a good position ‘
‘ to become the dominant consumer interface to ‘
‘ interactivity across all devices". ‘
‘ PCS PHONES? ‘
‘ Last month we said… ‘
‘ We’re in shopping mode. Expect a run-down ‘
‘ in an upcoming issue on our experience in ‘
‘ selecting a phone that can act minimally as
‘ PDA (Personal Digital Assistance) at least to ‘
‘ the extent of downloading Outlook / ACT ‘
‘ contacts and that includes Alpha-Paging, and ‘
‘ other lesser features. What do you ‘
‘ recommend? ‘
‘ Strategic Systems Panel member Peter Michael ‘
‘ responded… “For PDA telephones, check out ‘
‘ the Visor on Handspring’s web site.” ‘
‘ Compromise and a broken PCS phone lead to ‘
‘ an expedient solution with as a less functionality ‘
‘ and more convenience choice than planned.
‘ The Motorola Star-TAC. It won out on availability, ‘
‘ small-size, battery life, vibrator setting and my ‘
‘ favorite ‘open-to-answer’ flip phone functionality. ‘
‘ Next time PDA functionality too? ‘
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‘ QUESTIONS ‘
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‘ HOW WILL COMPUTERS WORK IN THE ‘
‘ FUTURE? ‘
‘ Maybe our silicon-based computing will lead to ‘
‘ organic-based. A Princeton University research ‘
‘ group has used RNA to solve a problem that ‘
‘ generated just one error in 1,024 possible ‘
‘ solutions. If you guessed that one is the most ‘
‘ interesting to them you’re correct. This is on the ‘
‘ figurative heals of a similar project at the ‘
‘ University of Southern Calif. where DNA was ‘
‘ used with similar objectives in mind. ‘
‘ WAS IT REALLY $350T by 2002? ‘
‘ Couldn’t have been!’ ‘
‘ In the last issue of E-News we noted the ‘
‘ expectation of over $350 trillion in business to ‘
business e-commerce by 2002. Strategic ‘
‘ Systems Advisory Panel member Peter Michael
‘ points out “…it’s an impossible figure with gross ‘
‘ world product not yet at $30 trillion.’ Would you ‘
‘ accept $250 Billion instead? ‘
‘ Thanks Pete ‘
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‘ STRATEGIC-USEFUL-INTERESTING LINKS ‘
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‘ 1. www.SpeechBot.ReSearch.Compaq.Com is a ‘
‘ site that indexes 22 popular radio shows with ‘
‘ searchable material encompassing over 2,500 ‘
‘ hours of broadcasts. The search engine uses ‘
speech recognition and indexing programs and ‘
‘ allows Boolean searches. Fond information ‘
‘ shows the relevant links before you can ‘
‘ choose to listen t the entire ‘found’ RealAudio ‘
‘ program. ‘
‘ 2. http://www.askme.com Find democratically ‘
‘ selected EXPERTS in almost any field available ‘
‘ free at AksMe.Com. Users (maybe like you) ‘
‘ select a relevant (although self-proclaimed) expert, ‘
‘ ask a question and rate the response.
‘ The ‘Experts’ gain in stature and creditability via ‘
‘ the rated responses and you get an answer ‘
for free! ‘
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