How To Get Here
The building is just off the Merrion Road, near the RDS. The nearest DART stop is Sandymount, and the 4, 4a, 5, 7, 7a, 8 & 45 bus routes all stop close by. Please see below for the location and driving directions. There is plentiful on-street parking available on Beatty’s Avenue and Herbert Cottages.

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Once you get there take the lift to the 1st floor and follow the signs to the Regus reception desk to sign in.

Agenda
During the 3 hour training session we’ll be covering

• Installation & configuration
• Common issues
• Suport escalations
• Account management using the web portal
• Initial backup and DR processes

The morning session starts at 9am, and the afternoon one starts at 1:45pm.

Dublin, Ireland, 8th September 2008. Irish online backup services company Central Databank has partnered with the ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Shortcuts Software, expanding the company’s services to over 10,000 customers across the globe. On full deployment, the partnership will bring global gross revenues for Central Databank to over €1m.

Shortcuts head office is based in Brisbane, Australia with two further offices located in Sale, Cheshire (UK) and Long Beach, California (USA) respectively. Shortcuts is the world’s leading provider of business management software solutions to hair and beauty salons and spas across the globe, currently operating in over 10,000 sites.

Irish company Central Databank (CDB) is a specialist online backup service provider offering services exclusively through IT reseller and ISV channel partners. CDB in conjunction with Shortcuts will establish additional data sites in Mainland Europe, Australia and North America.

“CDB provides a number of service offers in the back up sector to include mobile back up, enterprise back up and data replication services. We enable IT providers to become active, providing all the infrastructure, training and support needed. The CDB Sales Partner gets into the back up service provision business overnight without the necessary capital expenditure required. They in turn sell the back up to their clients,” says Dermot Mooney, CEO of CDB.

Online backup provides customers with robust effective off-site storage and back up of all their critical business data. CDB’s service is totally automatic and monitored 24/7 by specialist staff. CDB has built a unique service position.

“Our utility model is very different to any model in the market to date. It is harder to execute. We provide Sales Partner with all the infrastructure to enable them to deliver a top class service to their customer for critical data on their network on their laptop and even on their smart phone and PDAs,” adds Mooney.

“Our motto is global service for local delivery. This particular partnership has allowed us to reach customers spread over three continents, even though CDB are an Irish-based company. This deployment along with others planned will allow CDB accelerate multi regional sites while managed from Dublin. That is what makes it unique,” commented Mike Sowden, Chief Executive Officer of Shortcuts Software (UK) Ltd.

“The online back-up solution, supplied by CDB, for our clients is just part of our on-going commitment to providing the best in class software and service to the hair and beauty industry. This seamless solution provides our clients with additional security and assurance, that helps secure all their business data. And with which helps set Shortcuts apart from competing solutions.”

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About Central Databank

Central Databank was formed in 2001 as Europe’s first specialist trade only online off-site back up service provider. CDB provides its clients with own-brand software, training, mentoring and a managed back-end enabling a painless entry into the online backup market. CDB’s platforms are highly secure, offering up to AES 256 encryption and highly robust, providing 99.99% availability. Our solutions are priced according to capacity usage, so there are no maintenance, per-seat, per-feature or any other hidden costs.

Working through over 40 Partners and trade verticals CDB has deployed service offers for server, desktop, laptop, mobile phone and PDA backup. CDB currently supports over 1,500 customers on service under the management of the core technical team in Ireland.

For further information please contact:

Central Databank,
Alexandra House,
The Sweepstakes,
Ballsbridge,
Dublin 4
Tel: +353-1-664 1419;
peter.fogarty@centraldatabank.com
Website: www.centraldatabank.com

About Shortcuts

Shortcuts Software (UK) Limited is the European office of Shortcuts Software. Shortcuts specialise in business management solutions for salons and spas. There are over 11,000 salons and spas using Shortcuts in over 40 countries, in 9 languages worldwide. Shortcuts has three main offices, these are based in the UK, Australia and the USA.

Speaking at the launch of their new product offering, Howard Beggs, CEO of Helix Health and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist said, “Given the sensitivity of health related records, we at Helix Health understand that data protection is of particular importance to health care professionals.  Over the years we have had incidents where customers, with the best of intentions while using traditional back up methods, have lost significant data through disasters such as fire or IT failures. We are confident that together with a leading technology innovator such as CDB we can offer Healthcare professionals a value added service and peace of mind.”

Central Databank’s primary storage service centre is based in Dublin with full monitoring and reporting offered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The service will enable users to protect their patient data including any scans, results and images in an offsite location without having to run lengthy daily backups and worry about holding multiple tapes or other backup media in another location.

Dermot Mooney, CEO of Central Databank believes that there is an onus on Medical Practitioners to protect their data.  “In light of recent data security breaches in professional sectors leaving customers exposed to identity fraud and given the strong ethical obligations imposed on health professionals in relation to their patients, it is vital that practitioners in this sector take the utmost measures to ensure that their data is both secure and protected”
Central Databank and Helix Health aim to ensure consistent protection and availability of crucial patient records by facilitating rapid recovery from an emergency, such as computer failure, virus infection, flood or fire which could result in the destruction of the original data.

About Helix Health

Helix Health is a leading provider of world-class healthcare software and IT solutions. The company was formed in 2007 as a result of a merger between Systems Solutions (leading provider of pharmacy management software) and Medicom (market leader in general practice systems), creating the largest indigenous healthcare IT provider in Ireland. With a combined customer base of over 10,000 users of its healthcare software offerings, the company provides innovative technology solutions to Primary Care, Pharmacy, Specialist Health Care and Private Consultants, Health Assessment and Government. Helix has annual revenues of over €11m and employs almost 100 staff in Ireland. Helix Health has built a strong reputation for delivering quality software, which combines flexibility and user-friendliness. Helix Health is future-focused, quality-focused and customer-focused enabling healthcare professionals to deliver superior health services to their patients.

About Central Data Bank

Central Databank was formed in 2001 as Europe’s first specialist trade only online off-site back up service provider. CDB provides its clients with own-brand software, training, mentoring and a managed back-end enabling a painless entry into the online backup market. CDB’s platforms are highly secure, offering up to AES 256 encryption and highly robust, providing 99.99% availability. Our solutions are priced according to capacity usage, so there are no maintenance, per-seat, per-feature or any other hidden costs.

Working through over 40 Partners and trade verticals CDB has deployed service offers for server, desktop, laptop, mobile phone and PDA backup. CDB currently supports over 1,500 customers on service under the management of the core technical team in Ireland.