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A year after the introduction of EIRCA Live! we have decided to start development on a brand new all encompassing customer portal. Development work is set to being as early as next week and the project will be headed by myself and Craig.

The general consensus at EIRCA is that EIRCA Live currently does a good job but is we’re capable of much better. Thanks to a lot of suggestions by clients we have been able to form a solid platform from which to build the new portal. A few updates will be posted along the way and, as of yet, there is no set ETA but Simon and Callum have expressed a desire to have it in place before St. Patrick’s day so we’re shooting for late February.

Much like every year, November is a month that is used to set up March, not December. March is our big party, all the more so next year as we celebrate 7 years of business (officially March 14th, according to the business registration, which came late). People will no doubt wonder why 7 is the supposed magic number. It doesn’t sound too special, but it is. Seven years is the span of our original business plan. We come to the end of that next March and I couldn’t be more proud considering we have met and beaten each goal set forth.

So, with the annual and ever so popular Get Lucky promotion on the horizon, I have been scouting companies and services for prizes. We have now locked in a few absolutely fantastic prizes from ENOM, Netasis.com and DemoDemo.com. We also have some electronic gadgets in the proverbial prize bucket courtesy of my own company, PA Electronics.

There is a debate at the moment regarding the start date of the St. Patrick’s day promotion, though we are leaning toward a three weektype of deal, starting two weeks before and ending one week after Paddy’s day. This year, like last, we will be extending the promotion to existing clients. The previous four years did not have that option bu, by way of request, we have decided it was successful enough to now be a staple.

More on this after Christmas, and hopefully I’ll be able to confirm more prizes.

Now that I am back from vacation (is hunting a vacation?) I can confirm that our new and automated backup solution, (e)Vault) will debut on December 2nd.

(e)Vault will be enabled on all reseller and shared hosting servers, in addition to being made available for server clients.

The backup solution utilizes EVault’s Infostage line of products. Infostage is a fully automated server to agent, disk-to-disk backup technology. Some of the many features include compression, customizable encryption schemes, and Evaults “secret sauce” delta technology.

The backup agent can be managed from a downloadable desktop agent or through a Web server housed in the EIRCA datacenter. Backups can be completely customized on what to backup, how long to keep the data, when the backups run, and encryption schemes. All backups are done over EIRCA’s true out-of-band Private Network. Additional plug-ins can be purchased for specialized products such as SQL and Exchange.

Pricing for dedicated server clients will be made available closer to the start date.

This introduction comes shortly after the termination of the pending “The Vault” project, which had one too many bugs for our liking. Instead, we have chosen to downstream partner with Seagate, who have an obviously long and illustrious history with data storage solutions.