Your Questions About Business Online Backup

Jere answers:

A little tough on Mae there, “backup”!

I believe you will find quite a few of the things you are looking for if you check the source location listed below. I would be very interested to learn how you compiled your criteria list – it looks like a direct match.

As for your competitive rate question, this would depend on your volume. MasterCard and Visa charge ALL merchant processors the exact same interchange rates. What these merchant processors charge you usually depends on what your expected volume is. The higher your volume, the lower rate they can charge and still have an acceptable margin. Check out greensheet.com, the merchant processing industry news source, for more info about this.

Jere answers:

Business Plan Executive Summary for Mind Chemistry, Inc.
Mission and Vision:

Mind Chemistry introduces the “Graphical Learning Interface”, the revolution in learning and education. This innovative technology is developed from years of research, effective learning methodologies, and advanced memorization techniques. The environment intelligently adapts to the learner in regards to individual learning styles, preferences, and abilities. The digitally enhanced stimulus system will replace traditional and unidirectional learning patterns with an interactive, 3D experience, transferring the learning responsibility from the individual to the material. Mind Chemistry products empower learners as well as curriculum providers.

Target Markets:

Learners
Curriculum Developers
Publishers
Corporate Training Programs
Professional Development Programs

Corporate Objectives:

Address the growing educational challenges in our society with innovation and technology.
Alleviate the pressure in the education industry posed between the decreased funding and the accountability mandates of student achievement from Federal and State government.
Facilitate the further movement of “textbook-fee” learning in schools.
(See http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-07-11-wirless-high-school_x.htm)

Products and Services:

Mind OS Learning Center
. Mind OS Facilitations – graphical representation of information.
. Mind OS Sensations – the sensory-based, visual, colorful, and mnemonic learning devices.
. Adaptable Themes
. Multimedia – Sound and Video, 3D Animations, and Text Effects for better memory impact
. 3D Games, Interactive Games, Quizzes, Flash Cards
. Online Resources and Collaboration
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Mind OS Curriculum Designer Studio
. Designers, wizards, and tools to build learning material into the Mind OS Intelli-Struct, portable, and copyright managed format.
. Team Collaboration
. Version and Backup control
. Standards Incorporation and Content Tagging
. Global, Public , and Private Galleries for reusable learning material
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Mind Chemistry Corporate Edition
(Learning Center and Designer)
. Content Management
. Course Management
. Student Management and Enrollment
. Assignment Management
. Digital Locker
. Test Management
. Online Instruction
. Grading, Report Card, and Certificate Generation
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Mind OS Curriculum Public Lab
The Amazon.com of learning material both for paper-based copies and immediate download available in the Mind OS Intelli-Struct format. Access and managed ownership of learning products all acquired directly from within the Learning Center. Eliminate heavy backpacks, lost books, endless searching for availability, aging paper, and out of date editions.
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MindChemistry.edu
An educational program that provides “zero-cost” training for assignments on Mind Chemistry related projects. You gain much more than just an opportunity to move higher up on that great big ladder, you gain “Mind Capital.” This program is open to everyone to enhance their individual participation in culture and society. We encourage anyone who wishes to further their education in mind nurturing classes to become involved.
There is no age, skill, or educational level restrictions so there will be no reason to feel inferior, only empowered. All courses can be conducted online for flexibility. Everyone is expected to participate to the fullest of their ability. Courses are conducted in self-initiative aspect by hands on training in a boot camp style setting.
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MindChemistry – Joint Professional Development (JPD)
A pilot program developed to leverage the Mind Chemistry products and gain mileage and exposure in the learning industry as well as provide services to professionals with a desire for personal and professional growth. JPD provides a low-budget alternative to executive coaching through collaboration, role-playing games and exercises, and feedback discussions.

Business Plan Milestones:

– Continue pilot project for Grace Bible College in Evansville Indiana for taking curriculum online.
– Establish Phoenix chapter of Mind Chemistry – Joint Professional Development.
– Develop JPD franchising framework for chapter expansion in other major cities.
– Finish working prototypes for all future products.
– Develop investor relations and networking program.
– Penetrate the corporate training market and establish a product base and presence in a fast-growing industry.
– Market products to learning publishers and curriculum developers.

Ultimate Milestone: Globally market new versions of “branded” and licensed publisher products to learners, with “Mind Chemistry Inside”.

How’s that?

Jere answers:

Points to consider when Sizing This sizing questionnaire is designed to collect enough information to allow us to configure and characterize an appropriate SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) landscape.
 
1. Customer Information-This includes customer contact information, in case the sizing engineer needs further input to process the sizing. Here we also ask about the number, version and software of OLTP source systems as well as certain operational issues important to the overall system design.
 
2. Landscape Configuration      and  DW Design Planning-This section covers all information around the planned system and DW landscape as well as the Data Model design.
 
3. User Activity and Workload-There are three basic components to size for a SAP BW system:  number of users/processes, query mix and quantity of data stored in the DW.  This section will gather the information necessary to perform this process.
 
4. Data Quantity-In this section we ask for the amount of data you have planned to store in your DW and the data model you have planned to use.
 
5. Technical Requirements-Here we gather information regarding certain technical requirements, such as clustering or backup technology, that may influence the sizing of the system.
 

Jere answers:

Not sure on what you could use online, but if your a business you should use a NAS (Network Attached Storage) which will be the most secure and safest.

Something like a Drobo, although they might seem expensive, and adding to them the HDD’s will add to the cost, they are going to work out the cheapest when you see online storage subscription costs.

And you have to remember that online storage can be stopped at any time without warning, they can even have servers go down, loose your data or loose access to your data for some time.

Https://mega.co.nz gives 50GB of free online storage that is encrypted from your computer, so they do not know what the data is, no one can download from it without you posting a link to the files. But probably not as secure as you might want it depending on the data you will be uploading, (encrypt it first into an archive to be double safe)

Jere answers:

I may be wrong but looking at your post you could probably use a consumer backup solution too. If your in the UK we offer one that you may be interested in as its a live backup. We do also offer full business solutions if you want to talk to us for each employee having their own cloud space. See the link below for details of the consumer edition which you can free trial.