Visual Data Systems: Enhanced Internet Reliability & Firewall Platform: A proven low cost solution to virtually eliminate Internet access outages for the Vacation Rental Industry
Visual Data Systems, the leader in online marketing and technology solutions for the vacation rental industry has introduced 'Enhanced Internet Reliability & Firewall Platform' to the Vacation Rental Industry - which will help companies eliminate Internet outages and increase security of vital data.

COLUMBIA, MD, September 26, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Visual Data Systems, the leader in online marketing and technology solutions for the vacation rental industry has introduced 'Enhanced Internet Reliability & Firewall Platform' to the Vacation Rental Industry - which will help companies eliminate Internet outages and increase security of vital data. This service is available immediately for all interested vacation rental and real estate firms, boutique and independent hoteliers and resorts.

The Internet has become critical to the success of business and outages in your company's ability to access the internet can virtually halt the flow of business - causing lost time, effort and perhaps even losing clients to a competitor. Internet outages can and will impact communications, email, research, credit card processing, banking, client interaction and much more. With our research showing some clients directly attributing up to 80% of their sales to the internet - can companies afford an Internet outage for even a minimum amount of time?

For rental managers and e-commerce organizations that host their database and inventory locally - an internet outage means that availability searches and bookings cannot be completed by potential clients. With a majority of clients at least doing research online - Internet outages could force even the most loyal of clients to search elsewhere to make purchase decisions.

For organizations whose business is dependent on their data being hosted off-site - an Internet outage can halt all business. Your team will not have access to your own data - imagine a rental manager who could not check-in guests on a major turn-day because they could not access their data. They could not make sales over the phone because they would not know their own inventory.

Visual Data Systems is now offering a proven solution to virtually eliminate Internet outages - the deployment of an advanced firewall that has the ability to manage and load balance Internet circuits from two different internet service providers - most often DSL and Cable.

When both circuits are up and running, businesses will take advantage of the available bandwidth from both carriers, often doubling their current Internet bandwidth. If one circuit fails or is unavailable, the other circuit handles the load until the down circuit becomes available. As soon as it does, it automatically resumes its share of your Internet traffic.

The cost for this solution is a onetime fee of the cost of the firewall plus time. The firewall we use in this solution normally retails for over $1,000 - but, through our research, Visual Data Systems has been able to secure the firewall for under $600. The firewall comes with Lifetime support and firmware upgrades, plus a 2 year hardware warrantee. The firewall has the capacity to provide 35 VPN tunnels at no additional cost.

The time required to implement the solution is dependent on the complexity of infrastructure, typically taking around 3 hours for a basic implementation and 8 hours for the most complex implementation. While the solution is straight forward, the implementation is somewhat complex, as we load balance and provide redundancy for both outgoing and incoming traffic for multiple services.

The organization ordering the service will also need to order the second Internet circuit, which is a recurring operating expense, typically around $100/month.
For more information or to schedule deployment, please contact: Tom Kaczmarek - 443.310.5110 - TomK@VisualDataSystems.com



For More Information Contact:
Tom Kaczmarek
Visual Data Systems
443.310.5110
TomK@VisualDataSystems.com

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Tom Kaczmarek
Visual Data Systems
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5575 Sterrett Place
Columbia, MD
USA 21044
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