June 2008
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Bardissi Notes:

Hello everyone!! We’ve been gone for awhile and now where back!! We took a little time off to start our new and improved website which is almost done and will be up soon. So, stay tuned and we’ll let you know when it’s up.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL SENIORS WHO GRADUATED THIS MONTH. WHATEVER YOUR DREAMS AND AMBITIONS, MAY THEY BE GRANTED UNTO YOU TENFOLD. You’re Friends at Bardissi Enterprises.

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Just a friendly reminder!! It’s that time of year again!! That’s right, your son or daughter is going to be leaving for college, in the fall, and they need a Desktop or Laptop. Well just give us a call and we can help you put together the best computer package for an affordable price.

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 NEW AND EXPANDED BUSINESS HOURS!! Check out our expanded business hours. We are now offering service and support beginning at 8:00 am until 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday. That’s right; we’ve added a full hour for you to get more service and support.

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* * *Beginning July 1, 2008, the hourly business service and support charge will increase to $95.00 plus tax per hour. This increase is necessary as a result of the consistently increasing gasoline prices and their effect on our increased travel and vehicle costs as our business client base expands. Businesses that are on our annual contract program are not affected by the increase.

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We hope that you are continuing to enjoy our column, “Tech Talk” in The Reporter and we thank you for your positive comments and topics that you ask us to discuss. Please continue to send us topics or questions and we will be happy to address them in the column. All your comments, questions and topics should be sent to award@bardissi.net.

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Thank you to all of our home clients who placed orders for new PC’s and Laptops, during June the 9th to the 14th which was “Tax Free Technology Week”. The response was so overwhelming that we will be doing it near the end of each quarter and in conjunction with Dell’s end of quarter discounts. So, make sure you pay close attention to your emails, so you don’t miss out.

BARDISSI BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT

This month’s spotlight is on Real Estate Agent, Joanna Bellinger who is with Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.  Joanna specializes in the sale and purchase of residential real estate in Eastern Montgomery County and Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia. She has been in real estate for the past eleven years and boasts a very impressive list of clientele and sales. Her expertise also extends to the area of relocation real estate as well.

Joanna believes that her sole purpose is to get her clientele the right property at the right price and to that end she whole heartedly works. “I am a client focused realtor who is dedicated to giving you, your friends and family the attention that is so richly deserved”, states Joanna. She has received acclaim, in the Philadelphia real estate market as a “Top Producer” and she is a Region Gold Team Representative.

Even though Joanna has received many accolades and awards, she feels that in the end, that's not what's important. For her, what’s important is that her clients receive excellent care that meets their needs and exceeds their expectations. If you’re in the market to sell or purchase real estate, then contact Joanna at 215 591-5601. You can learn more about Joanna by visiting her website at www.bellingerteam.com. Joanna Bellinger of Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc., “Putting The Real Back In Real Estate”. If you’re looking for the best, then let Joanna do the rest.

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Bardissi Enterprises would like to welcome the following new companies who are now using our Managed Information Technology Solutions services for all their business and personal IT needs:

 

Brink's Inc - Lancaster, PA

Bucksmont Indoor Sports Center – Hatfield, PA

Burkee Climate Control, Inc – Quakertown

Campus Medical Supply, LLC – Skippack, PA

Castleway Properties, LLC – Lester, PA

Earth Biotechnologies, Inc. – Glenside, PA

Freedom Handyman Services, Inc. – Ambler, PA

Jolie Salon & Day Spa, Inc. - Blue Bell, PA

Laboratory Testing Inc. - Hatfield, PA

Logo Design Guru, Inc. – Langhorne, PA

Mr. Handy Man – Chambersburg, PA

Northwest Erectors, Inc. – Ambler, PA

Robert E. Chester Associates Consulting – Ardmore, PA

Robert L. Smyrl, Inc. – Hatfield, PA

Roush Associates, LLC – Telford, PA

RTL Consulting, LLC – Exton, PA

The Light Stream Group – Fort Washington, PA

The Phone Man Portable Communications, Inc. – Hatfield, PA

The Training Group, Inc. – Phoenixville, PA

The Greater North Penn Collaborative for Health & Human Services

 

Our Motto:

“MANAGED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS DESIGNED WITH YOUR AFFORDABILITY IN MIND”

 “WHY PAY MORE”

 

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On-Line Backup: Do I want this?

 

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On-Line Backup: Do I want this?

George Bardissi, President Bardissi Enterprises 

Many people are starting to discover the phenomenon of on-line backup. What is it? How does it work? Is it secure? How much does it cost? Let’s dive into this from the top down.  

Data storage, over the past few years, has seriously come down in cost. Many companies have since invested in creating data centers with massive storage capacity and with this capacity they offer companies around the world, that have a high speed internet connection,  the ability to use this storage space for secure off-site data backup. Is there an upside to this or does this make sense for my company? Many people forget that a company is only as good as its people and its information. This is why keeping data secure and backed up are two of the most crucial parts of information technology security as we know it today.

 A traditional backup method, still in use, over the past several years, has been the tape backup solution. Companies would have a set of tapes and make sure at least one was kept off-site at someone’s house, out of the usual tape backup rotation. This is still a method in regular use today. However, there are many more methods in the mix today such as NAS (network attached storage), external hard drive backup and on-line backup just to mention a few. Keep in mind, there are many more types of back up methods, with others being created every day. Since online and off site backup has gained great popularity, it has become pretty inexpensive for what you get and gives your company an extra layer of data backup redundancy. Because there are an incredible number of data backup providers our limited column space won’t permit us to list them all and their cost factors. Instead, I would suggest that you Google data backup companies in your area.

Be assured you will get a very extensive list to choose from and compare prices on. Do I really need more than one data backup system? Well consider this, if for some reason your server were to crash or your data were to become corrupted causing your on-site data backup solution to fail, having a second and third backup method would be a way of making sure your data is protected. I caution against strictly using just one method of backup due to the fact that if that backup fails you are literally up the creek.

 Also, other things to keep in mind are, if your internet connection fails then your on-line backup won’t work. Yes, on-line backup is secure because the data is encrypted before it is transferred over the internet and then kept secure in the data center where it is held. Retrieving data from the on-line storage software is very easy and does not require cumbersome software packages to get files back after data loss. If you use personal finance software such as Quicken, or Microsoft Money and use the online file backup for your data file they use this same technology as well. You may also see that manufactures are starting to offer one year free of charge on-line data backup with your pc purchase.

 Of course, you would have to begin paying after the trial period. As time goes on and the cost of data storage continues to go down you will see off-site / on-line data backup and storage continue to surface in many areas and become very useful when, not if, something does go wrong. Remember, with information technology, it is a safe bet that something will, on occasion, go wrong. The question then becomes, “will you be ready for it, when it happens”?

 
 

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