The Benefits Of The DDS-4 Tape Format Engineered By Quantum

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View all articles by Mark Paul Backup technology is a necessity in the world of today. Many people lose important information when a hacker hacks into their databases or when viruses attack the software. Indeed anti-virus softwares and programmes are available to deal with these but when a new virus is on the loose these become ineffective. Often newer viruses tend to be more dangerous and resistant to older anti-virus softwares because those who create these tend to know of how such softwares combat the older ones. So, the newer ones tend to be resistant to these.

When a company stores information on to their database, this is not always safe because when one goes online, the software can be affected by anyone via online and/or offline networks. Once the online network is logged onto the software is open to viruses, hackers and other such disruptions from cyberspace. It is difficult to ensure that no virus enters the computer or to try and get rid of hackers. So, it is important to take precautionary measures in order to minimize the damage caused by such threats and the way to do that is to back up the information on something other than the computer software.

This is where backup technology is a necessity. Such technology helps preserve important information in case threats from cyberspace attack the computer and backup technology devices can also be used if the database is destroyed due to a natural disaster. Backup technology would give companies a separate medium on to which they can store information. Many companies have come up with DDS tapes, USBs, LTO tapes and other such devices that would enable companies to protect vital information on to these. The best part about these devices is that they are long-lasting, effective and affordable!

The Quantum DDS-4 tape is a data backup solution that comes with a massive storage capacity of 72 GB and so, companies that rely heavily on research and development (such as pharmaceuticals) can benefit a lot by investing in these tapes. Not only do the tapes have a large storage capacity, they also come with a long archival life which makes them long-lasting and documents can easily be stored as archives. There is no need to worry about having to keep the old generations of the DDS tapes because the Quantum DDS-4 tape can overwrite and store information available in previous generations of the DDS tape.

Quantum tape drive is required to perform operations on this compact DDS4 cartridge. Massive volume of information can be retrieved and preserved for longer time period. The tape drive comes with a durable write/read head and can stream data without any interruption.

So if anything happens to your on-site data, the tapes will be there to help you bounce back and retrieve important information. In conclusion the tape provides businesses with a separate device on to which information can be stored and protected from viruses, hackers and other such threats. Small-scale business can surely trust Quantum DDS4 media storage solution and grow cost effectively.

DDS-4 tape cartridges are very robust, reliable and cost efficient. High performance SDLT tapes, LTO tapes, DDS tapes, AIT tapes, RDX cartridges and Maxell 200200, DDS3 tapes are available at Odsi.co.uk, at low price. Mark Paul Online Digital Solutions LLC, 39 Southend Road, East Ham London E62AL Tel: 0203 005 9500 Email: sales@odsi.co.uk

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Coca-Cola partners with dairy company

(Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co said on Tuesday it is partnering with dairy company Select Milk Producers Inc to take equity stakes in a newly created company, Fair Oaks Farms Brands LLC, to fuel expansion of the dairy drink Core Power.

Coke, the world's largest soft drink maker, said it wants to create "an innovative portfolio of brands and products that feature the value-added nutrition of dairy."

Coke did not say how much it was investing in Fair Oaks.

(Reporting By Martinne Geller in New York; editing by John Wallace)

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Far left outsider "winner" in Korean presidential debate

SEOUL (Reuters) - Sounding at times like a mouthpiece for hostile North Korea, a candidate with no chance of winning South's presidential election made the biggest impact in a televised debate and may have scuppered the chances of the main opposition candidate.

Lee Jung-hee of the pro-North Korea United Progressive Party is polling less than one percent ahead of the December 19 election, but her strident performance in the debate on Tuesday evening may well have fatally damaged the mainstream left-wing candidate Moon Jae-in, whose party is allied with hers in parliament.

Lee topped searches on South Korea's main Internet portal Naver after the debate in which she labeled the administration in Seoul the "government of the South", a term usually employed by North Korea's propaganda machine.

Lee outraged supporters of conservative contender Park Geun-hye by using the Japanese name of her father who ruled the South for 18 years until his assassination in 1979, a reference to Korea's colonial past and an effort to portray Park as a collaborator.

"Takaki Masao wrote a pledge of patriotism with his own blood so that he could become an officer in the Japanese army, you will all know who that is," Lee said during the debate late on Tuesday. "His Korean name is Park Chung-hee."

Park appeared to ignore the attack during the debate. Her father's harsh rule saw political repression accompany rapid economic development and still divides South Koreans.

Park has held a small but steady lead over Moon Jae-in for most of the campaign, but her advantage has been within the margin of error for most polls.

"Moon was the victim in the debate," said Ka Sang-joon, Dankook University political science professor, who added that Moon was forced to hold back from attacking Park's policies as he risked appearing to bully her together with Lee.

Lee also said that North Korea was entitled to sink a South Korean naval vessel in 2010 and to shell an island, killing civilians for the first time in a direct military attack on South Korean soil for the first time since the 1950-53 Korean War.

Lee, who will turn 43 three days after the vote, was invited to take part in the presidential debate as her party has more than five parliamentary seats.

A graduate of the elite Seoul National University law school who came near the top in South Korea's tough college entrance exams, Lee has frequently courted controversy, defending North Korea's dynastic succession and saying the responsibility for ending the North's isolation rests with the United States.

"The United States and North Korea have long been in conflict," she once wrote. "The start to better ties would be that the United States could offer positive views on North Korea's leader."

(Editing by David Chance and Robert Birsel)

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Three new LTE locales for AT&T

AT&T this morning announced it's turned on 4G LTE data in three new cities. They are: Albuquerque, N.M., Reading, Penn., and Salt Lake City. We've seen a couple dozen new areas go live in the past few weeks. AT&T previously announced that it plans to spend $14 billion on its network over the next three years.

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Skip the bonus and pour on the praise

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Michelle V. Rafter , NBC News contributor

When it comes to rallying the troops, bonuses aren?t always?the best way to go --?or the cheapest.

As common as holiday bonuses are, some workplace experts argue that the little something extra some?companies tack onto paychecks come December isn?t the greatest way to say thanks for a job well done.

?The $500 bonus check is a sugar rush,? says Razor Suleman, chairman and chief evangelist at Achievers, a company that sells employee rewards and recognition software. ?You?re happy when it hits; you pay for your January credit card bills. But you don?t feel it.?

Pay annual year-end bonuses long enough and employees start to feel entitled to them regardless of how they have performed, Suleman says.

Others agree. Using money to motivate people doesn?t work, especially if they anticipate the reward before they?ve finished the task, Edward Deci,?a University of Rochester human motivation psychologist, says in this Entrpreneur.com blog post.

Companies do better at engaging workers if they pair bonuses with employee recognition programs, according to a recent Society of Human Resources Management/Globoforce survey. Companies that spend 1 percent of payroll on programs that publicly call out employees for above-average performances see an 85 percent positive impact on worker engagement, and 61 percent hang onto workers longer, according to the survey.

Acting on employees? suggestions is just one way companies can recognize and reward workers in addition to or in lieu of year-end bonuses -- and not spend a lot doing it.

At the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan Hotel, for example,?employees get three minutes to pitch new business ideas to the?company?s executives a la ?Shark Tank,? an ABC television series in which budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to potential investors. In the past two years, the hotel has adopted more than 70 suggestions from staff members, including creating an internal mentor program and starting a ?Costar Closet? employees can use to swap household items and clothing they no longer need,?according to Alyssa Anderson, a company spokeswoman.

Companies can please employees by keeping communications open between managers and subordinates, and between co-workers, says Robert Levering, co-founder of Great Place to Work Institute, publisher of annual lists of exemplary U.S. employers. The real distinguishing characteristic of great places to work ?is the level of trust, how much employees trust the management,? Levering says.

Here are other ways companies can show the love to employees and not break the bank:

Create a formal employee recognition plan. A plan doesn?t have to be complicated. It could be praising that week?s all-star performers at the end of a routine meeting, or recognizing stand-out employees at a monthly town hall or in a company newsletter.

Praise peers in public. At Achievers, staff meetings end with employees sharing something about one of their co-workers? accomplishments. ?It costs the company nothing, and it leaves (employees) with a different level of enthusiasm,? Suleman says. ?Recognition is free, that?s the brilliance of it. Every company can afford free.?

Don?t wait until December to pay bonuses. If you have money set aside for bonuses, pay it out a little at a time throughout the year instead of in one lump sum at the end.

Offer rewards that employees value. If companies offer a recognition plan that includes financial rewards, make sure they?re rewards that employees perceive to be high in quality and financial value, according to a study from human-resources researcher Bersin & Associates. Forget one-size-fits-all prizes; employees want a say in the types of rewards they get, according to the Bersin & Associates survey.

Offer flexible schedules. Another way to recognize employees: Offer them more flexibility. Employees want more work/life balance, whether they?re parents juggling caring for kids and aging parents, or older employees who want to work part time, Levering says.

Provide challenging work. Interesting work is a more powerful incentive than money, says?Charalambos Vlachoutsicos, an adjunct professor at Athens University, in this Harvard Business Review blog post. As an example, Vlachoutsicos shares how he once helped a Russian sawmill with an employee whose bad temper and drinking caused problems for his foreman and co-workers. The man also was the mill?s only employee with certain technical skills, so Vlachoutsicos put him in charge of running a new machine -- and he rose to the occasion. ?When you're thinking about ways to motivate your work?force, always acknowledge and praise their worthwhile contributions and try to find out more about their interests, their backgrounds, their skills,? Vlachoutsicos writes. ?These will give you insight into their non-financial, intrinsic motivations.?

Let employees share recognition on their social networks. Companies can use social media-style internal networks or smartphone apps such as Achievers, iAppreciate, GiveaWow and Sparcet to give digital shout outs to employees. On some of these networks, employees can display awards on their profiles and share them with friends on public social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/skip-bonus-pour-praise-1C7393763

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Return of the King: GNOME 2 Is Making Its Way Back

With all the drama and pathos that plays out each and every day here in the Linux blogosphere, the temptation to equate the stories of today with classic tales from the world of literature can sometimes be overwhelming. Take the world of Linux desktops, for example. For years the users lived happily under the reign of GNOME 2; suddenly, Unity and GNOME 3 appeared on the horizon.

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Managing the 'water planet'

For most of history, there were always new lands to discover, explore, and exploit. Resources like water were taken for granted. But an important shift has occurred as we've looked back at our planet from space: We've become more conscious of preserving our rare, blue-green island in the universe.

By John Yemma,?Editor / December 2, 2012

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Well before Columbus or Magellan or Lewis and Clark; before Asian hunter-gatherers crossed the Bering Strait; for as long as people have explored, the world has pulled back its curtain and revealed its bounty.?

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John Yemma has been a foreign correspondent, Washington reporter, political editor, and has covered economics, science, and culture in 38 years as a journalist. He has worked for The Dallas Morning News, The Boston Globe, UPI, The San Antonio Express-News -- and since 2008, he has been Editor of the Monitor. The Monitor?publishes international news and analysis at CSMonitor.com, in the Monitor Weekly newsmagazine, and in an email-delivered Daily News Briefing.?

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Expecting another untouched valley or unfished river over the horizon had a profound effect. The American historian Frederick Jackson Turner described the frontier mentality as creating confidence in ?a new field of opportunity, a gate of escape from the bondage of the past.??

That confidence that there were more earthly paradises to discover liberated millions from poverty and repression, but often at the price of environmental carelessness. A few pioneers left a small imprint, but they were followed by settlers and developers whose practices were often more cavalier. If there was always a newer New World to find and enjoy, why bother protecting the old one?

By the 20th century, the frontier had faded. Except for a few remote jungles and ocean depths, most of the globe is known, claimed, and cataloged. The frontier mentality remains a source of optimistic expectation, but it is evolving in interesting ways.

Over the past half century, exploration has shifted to the scientific realm and to places beyond our home planet. It?s not that we discover fewer things; it?s that our discoveries have less to do with geography. The pace of discovery has actually accelerated in the age of robotics and knowledge networks. The real action is in smarter ways of managing what we already know about.

You can see that in everything from energy to waste to water. New extraction techniques have vastly increased the productivity of oil and gas deposits. Load management is making the electric grid more efficient. Better transportation and marketing sends food produced on one side of the world to the other. And, as William Wheeler notes in our cover story, innovative ways of managing water resources will be crucial in slaking the thirsty Earth?s population of 6.9 billion and counting.

The magic of water is also what makes it a problem: It falls from the sky. Because it is free, it seems to have no value. In wet climates, water is an afterthought and can be a nuisance (ask the people of coastal New York and New Jersey after superstorm Sandy). But if you live in an arid region like inland Australia, northern Africa, Central Asia, or the Great Basin in the United States, you know that water conservation is increasingly important.?

Valuing water the way we value oil, say some resource specialists, may help stop its waste and spoilage.?

Back in the 1970s, the French marine explorer Jacques Cous-teau used to send out fundraising letters with this salutation: ?Dear Citizen of the Water Planet.? It was a corny opening line, but it got the point across. We?ve sent probes into space and landed on other planets. So far, nothing compares with our watery, blue-green marble floating in the void. So far, there are no new worlds more attractive than our old one.

That is not to say that we?ve got Earth?s many resource challenges licked. But rather than the age-old pattern of discovering, exploiting, abusing, and discarding Earth?s bounty, people everywhere are learning how to value and protect it.

The water planet is home. Managing its resources in smarter ways is our new frontier.

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