KUSA announces that its new KY-CSV3170EM Managed Traffic Ethernet Switch has been officially released, and is now being manufactured in Kansas City, Missouri. The Made in America All Gigabit Switch, which is field upgradable to Power Over Ethernet (IEEE802.3at 30 Watt), was designed and engineered in Kansas City, Missouri in conjunction with key traffic partners across the United States. The switch is rack or input file mountable and works in NEMA or non-NEMA traffic cabinets. KUSA is the original design team to innovate the Rack / File mountable Ethernet switches. The KY-CSV3170EM is a 10 Port: 8 X 10/100/1000Base (T) X RJ45 & 2 X 100/1000Base(X) Managed / Temperature Hardened Ethernet Switch (OPTIONAL POE) exclusively sold by Traffic Partners. The KY-CSV3170EM exceeds the new Federal Security Guidelines for Industrial Networks. The new switch has several innovative features not found on most switches:

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SunGard has extended its Adaptiv suite of solutions to help customers not only calculate Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) but also actively manage it. Adaptiv CVA Studio now helps traders hedge their CVA exposure, minimize their firms earnings volatility and understand the direct impact of CVA on their P&L.

Basel IIIs CVA mandate will require banks to hold more capital for counterparty credit risk. This is expected to reduce the return on equity and therefore have a direct impact on the profitability of the over-the-counter business lines within many organizations, from global banks to regional franchise banks. Adaptiv CVA Studio helps traders dynamically hedge CVA volatility by offering the ability to calculate and view sensitivities, manage and hedge credit risk on their books, and calculate P&L and P&L Predict.

Adaptiv CVA Studio includes a Monte Carlo calculation engine for measuring risk and a trading-style interface to display counterparty and hedge positions in a single view of P&L and key risk metrics. The solution can run over one million valuations per second per processor core, helping customers achieve greater accuracy in their valuations by avoiding approximation techniques. Adaptiv CVA Studio can accurately calculate multiple risk measures on a CVA book to help manage volatility, including CVA, Debt Valuation Adjustment (DVA) and Funding Valuation Adjustment (FVA), sensitivities, stress scenarios, P&L attribution and P&L predict. Accurate CVA calculations help banks improve their selection of counterparties by helping them more precisely assess counterparty risk.

Juerg Hunziker, president of SunGards Front Arena and Adaptiv business units, said, As the impact of Basel III on both profitability and earnings volatility is better understood, banks are establishing CVA functions to support compliance and improve how they manage P&L. Adaptiv CVA Studio can help by providing a complete view of CVA and transparency into credit risk using technology that can be quickly rolled out to traders and CVA managers across the organization.

About SunGards Adaptiv

SunGards Adaptiv provides enterprise-wide credit and market risk management and operations solutions for financial services institutions. Adaptiv assists institutions of varying size and complexity to deploy technology to meet both internal and regulatory requirements for risk management and operational control. Adaptiv helps financial services institutions from the banking, hedge fund, asset management, insurance and corporate sectors with its deep understanding of risk management and operational processes. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com/enterpriserisk.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the worlds leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 4.5 bilion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and was ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 in 2011. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com.

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo, Adaptiv and Front Arena are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Sweatband.com, the UK sports & fitness equipment superstore, has increased its range of recumbent exercise bikes with the inclusion of the brand new Axos R model from the award-winning KETTLER. The newly-launched Axos R is the first recumbent exercise bike developed by KETTLER and one of 17 recumbent exercise bikes now available at Sweatband.com.

The KETTLER Axos R recumbent bike has been designed according to KETTLERs principals of innovation and pioneering technology. The KETTLER Axos Rs sitting position is secure, comfortable and cleverly positioned to ensure optimal workout benefits for all by targeting the leg muscles while supporting and stabilising the lower back. Additionally, its unique step-thru design has been devised to make it easy and safe for exercise participants to get on and off the recumbent exercise bike.

KETTLER have incorporated a weighty 9kg (20lbs) flywheel in the design, this ensures a smooth cycling experience while the choice of 16 resistance levels and 12 highly varied and motivating programs combine to offer on-going and effective workout challenges to people across the full spectrum of fitness levels and varying time constraints.

Sweatband.com CEO Maz Darvish says, This is a great recumbent bike at a very competitive price from a highly regarded home fitness brand. I would recommend the KETTLER Axos R to those keen to target the areas in the backs of their legs as it really accesses the glutes and hamstrings. Its also great for people who find their posture suffers after longer periods on an upright bike as the support you get for your torso means you can power through your legs and work them harder for longer.

The Axos R has a user-friendly console which monitors and reports all the essential workout data, such as speed, RPM, distance, time, calories and pulse rate.

The Axos R has a built-in wireless heart rate receiver which can be used with a chest strap (not included) or heart rate can be monitored using the bikes hand pulse sensors. Either feature can be used in combination with the Heart Rate Controlled programme which automatically adjusts the bikes resistance to maintain the target heart rate training zone of the participant.

Each participants progress can be monitored using the Axos Rs Recovery Feature, this provides a grading of your cardio wellness in terms of how quickly your heart rate recovers after working out.

KETTLER Axos R recumbent exercise bike retails at just

FIBERTOWN, a premier provider of high availability Houston data centers and business continuity offices, successfully installed another health care provider into its Texas data centers. Community Health Choice, a division of Harris County Hospital District, selected the FIBERTOWN colocation facility in Bryan to power and protect its disaster recovery systems.

High availability, security and disaster recovery are more important in health care today than ever, said Brandon Perryman, senior vice president for FIBERTOWN. We provide fully redundant, high-powered facilities to aid these organizations in improving health care delivery and optimizing processes.

The decision for colocation was based on regulatory requirements that demand back-up technology systems be located outside hurricane impact zones.

FIBERTOWN provides a superior data center solution that met our redundancy and budget requirements, said John Coakley, director of information systems for CHC. Our DR operations at FIBERTOWN allow us to maintain reliable back-up facilities and business continuity, while ensuring regulatory compliance.”

CHC surveyed multiple colocation providers in and around Houston, Dallas and Austin. The highest levels of redundancy and close driving distance, coupled with a robust telecom network and fiber proximity, made FIBERTOWN BRYAN the best choice data center.

The growing role of medical information systems focuses on implementing electronic medical records and ensuring security and compliance. Its likely many health care providers are evaluating data center initiatives as a response to the rapid growth of technology infrastructure, said Perryman.

CHC joins nearly a dozen other health care organizations that rely on FIBERTOWN to house DR operations and protect vital technology systems, including Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Americas Blood Centers and U.S. Physical Therapy.

ABOUT FIBERTOWN

FIBERTOWN is the premier provider of quality data center solutions, high availability colocation and business continuity/disaster recovery office space in Houston and Bryan/College Station. With a proven 100% SLA, FIBERTOWN houses the mission critical IT systems for Fortune 500 companies and smaller organizations across many industries.

The SSAE 16 compliant data centers and award-winning DR office space offer Gulf Coast-based companies a carrier neutral, one-stop solution for best-in-class technology and amenities to support business continuity needs. Both the North Houston data center and Bryan Tier IV-designed data center feature a pod design for maximum efficiency, fault tolerant 2N power and cooling, 24x7x365 security, and fully redundant multi-carrier Internet connectivity. Learn more at http://www.fibertown.com or call (888) 501-4368. Visit our blog, The Continuity Council, at http://thecontinuitycouncil.com.

ABOUT CHC

Community Health Choice, Inc. (CHC) is a non-profit Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) licensed by the Texas Department of Insurance. Through its network of more than 5,000 doctors and 50 hospitals, CHC serves over 225,000 members. CHC is accredited by URAC for its health plan operations. CHC offers disease management programs for asthma, diabetes, high-risk pregnancy and weight management. An affiliate of the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD), CHC is financially self-sufficient and receives no financial support from HCHD or from Harris County taxpayers.

360 Asset Managers (360 AM), a French asset manager with 160M* in assets under management, has selected SunGards FastVal to help it independently value its derivative portfolios. FastVal, an ASP-based, independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives will help 360 AM increase its operational efficiency when valuing complex OTC derivatives. It will also help its risk department to meet French and international regulatory requirements for its accounting and compliance practices. 360 Asset Managers is registered with and regulated in France by the Autorit

EzCheckPrinting software from halfpricesoft.com makes writing checks and paying bills fast, efficient and inexpensive. Intuitive interface guides users to customize and print checks with point-and-click ease. Halfpricesoft.com recently released the new edition of ezCheckPrinting check writer which speeds up secure back-up and restoration of check data to prevent loss to viruses, spyware and computer crashes.

Viruses, spyware and hard-drive crashes – Almost weekly, Halfpricesoft.com support team received help requests from ezCheckPrinting software users desperate to recover check data lost to these villains. Though the malware and data losses were not related to the companys popular check writing software, Halfpricesoft.coms management team realized customers needed a new way to back up and restore their payroll data securely, safely and quickly.

“Nobody can afford to lose payroll and check data. Yet, too many of our customers were telling us theyd been victim to a virus or computer crash that wiped out their database, said Halfpricesoft.com founder Dr. Ge. “We wanted to provide our customers with peace of mind and a way to protect their check data safely, securely and quickly.

Users can put the back-up file on a USB flash drive, external drive, optical media disc (CD or DVD), or on a remote server, including web-based data-storage services. In the event of a virus invasion or hard-drive crash, users can reinstall ezCheckPrinting software once the computer is restored, or on a different computer, and import the back-up database file in just a few minutes.

Now the new version of EzCheckPrinting, which is available for free download at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/check_printing_software_download.asp, with no cost and no obligation. Other features include:

3-Per-Page, Check on Top, Check in Middle, and Check on Bottom options.
Print checks from blank computer check paper with pre-printed checks.
Print pre-printed blank checks to fill in manually at a later time or to use with other software such as ezPaycheck, Quicken, QuickBooks and Microsoft Money.
-Unlimited accounts and unlimited checks.

-Never reorder checks from the bank – which often results in costly delays and fees.

With ezCheckPrinting, writing a check is really easy. All users have to do is to enter the date, payees name and amount payable to the payee. This check writer will automatically convert numbers to words. User can write and print a check with just a few clicks.

Priced at $ 39 (free through online special offers), ezCheckPrinting is affordable for any business. During tough economic times, Halfpricesoft.com gives buyers a new way to get ezCheckPrinting for free by partnering with TrialPay.

Never reorder checks from the bank – which often results in costly delays and fees. Now users can start the free test-drive at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/product_ezCheck.asp

About halfpricesoft.com

Halfpricesoft.com is a leading provider of small business software, including payroll software, employee attendance tracking software, check printing software, W2 software, 1099 software, and barcode generating software. Today Software from halfpricesoft.com is trusted by thousands of users and help small business owners simplify their payroll processing and business management.

Corgentum Consulting, the leading provider of the industrys most comprehensive hedge fund operational due diligence reviews, will host a series of quarterly webinars in 2012. This educational dialogue will feature vital insights into important operational risk trends for 2012.

The inaugural webinar, Operational Due Diligence Survival Kit for 2012, will take place on Thursday, March 15th, from 2:00-3:00pm EST. The webinar will provide investors with an overview of critical tools needed to perform operational due diligence on hedge funds, private equity and traditional funds. Investor’s attending this webinar will also have access to new industry data on operational due diligence trends. Other topics covered during the webinar will include:

Techniques for evaluating a fund manager’s compliance with new regulatory registration requirements
How to develop and implement an action plan for effective operational due diligence in 2012
Approaches towards analyzing the increasingly broad nature of service provider offerings

“2012 has ushered in many new operational challenges for fund managers. It is essential that investors attend this informative discussion to ensure that they are equipped with the tools they need to confidently evaluate how well funds have adapted to meet these challenges, says Corgentum Managing Partner, Jason Scharfman.

Scharfman has over a decade of operational risk experience and will lead the webinar on March 15th, 2012. He is also the author of “Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence” and the upcoming book “Private Equity Operational Due Diligence”, which will be released globally on April 10th, 2012.

To sign up for Corgentums webinar series, please visit http://www.corgentum.com/contact/webinar1.html or call 201-360-2430.

In addition to the announcement of the new webinar series, Corgentum Consulting also recently released a new quarterly newsletter – Operational Due Diligence Insights – which will focus on a variety of topics relating to operational due diligence including valuation, financial statement and legal documentation risks, compliance, cash management, counterparty risk and business continuity and disaster recovery. To subscribe to the newsletter and other Corgentum news please sign up at: http://corgentum.com/contact

About Corgentum Consulting

Corgentum Consulting is a specialist consulting firm which performs operational due diligence reviews of fund managers. The firm works with investors including fund of funds, pensions, endowments, banks and family offices to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive operational due diligence reviews. Corgentum’s work covers all fund strategies globally including hedge funds, private equity, real estate funds, and traditional funds. The firm’s sole focus on operational due diligence, veteran experience , innovative original research and fundamental bottom up approach to due diligence allows Corgentum to ensure that our client’s avoid unnecessary operational risks. Corgentum is headquartered at 26 Journal Square, Suite 1005 in Jersey City, New Jersey, 07306. Phone 201-360-2430. The Web site is http://www.corgentum.com.

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Axletree Solutions announced today that eight leading regional banks in the United States joined its SWIFT Service Bureau. Moving along with the general trend in the industry, these banks replaced traditional in-premise SWIFT infrastructure with outsourced SaaS based SWIFT Connectivity through Axletree Solutions. By choosing a service bureau they substantially reduce the TCO while simultaneously increasing their efficiency, security and reliability.

Bank of Uruguay, Synovus, Bank of Houston, FirstBank Puerto Rico, American First National Bank, Hanmi Bank, Metro Bank and BCI Miami migrated to the outsourced mode of SWIFT Connectivity. Their move to a service bureau couldnt have come at better time. All SWIFT users are expected to comply with a mandatory upgrade to a newer version of SWIFTs Alliance 7 no later than March 2012. Migrations and upgrades place immense pressure on an already overwhelmed staff in the banks; by outsourcing their SWIFT operations to a service bureau they can now focus on their core services. For State-owned Banco Rep

“New Tampa real estate is skating on thicker ice, but a full, healthy recovery is still up in the air,” says Steve Hertole of Invest USA.

Yes, New Tampa homes have survived better than most of their Hillsborough County peers average price drops, fewer foreclosures. And the past six months, throughout Tampa Bays seven-county region, have seen a steady uptick in median home prices.

However, slower than normal summer sales and homes priced out of the in-the-market buyers first-time and investor range, keep the future cloudy for most New Tampa neighborhoods.

Buoyed by a favorable mix of demographics and destination, New Tampa remains a real estate mystery.

The area has been undergoing a saw-tooth recovery since July of 2010. Existing home sales volumes are up and down every month, said Warren Gold of Tampa a real estate investor.

Home Encounter reports Hunters Green has been New Tampas most temperamental development, with the average cost per square foot over the past 12 months bouncing from $ 69 to $ 118.

Home Encounter employs a proprietary database, HomeSalesStats.com, utilizing agent-provided home sales data, claiming to mitigate errors and omissions generated by public records variables and inputs used by other popular real estate databases.

Over the past 12 months, sales in the 33647 zip code are down 17.2 percent. Not a good news story, but better than many Tampa areas.

Buyers may just be driving by New Tampa. Other parts of Tampa are flush with distressed properties and priced-to-sell neighborhoods. And investors and first-time buyers still dominate Tampas market, despite low-mortgage rates and historically strong seasonal sales.

Foreclosures, short sales, and bargain-basement deals in other parts of Tampa need to sell before buyers flock back to the gated communities and golf courses in New Tampa.

According to HomeSalesStats.com, over the past 12 months, the median sold price of single-family homes in New Tampa peaked at $ 239,000. Countywide, the median is $ 137,00, leaving price-sensitive buyers more attractive options.

New Tampa, in general, has dodged the Tampa foreclosure epidemic. Any neighborhood with a lower number of distressed sales is a good neighborhood, distressed sales pull down the value of homes, said Warren Gold.

Richmond Place recorded just one foreclosure over the past 12 months. Arbor Greene and Hunters Green remained relatively stable with 15 foreclosures each. And Live Oak Preserve suffered 48 foreclosures, the most in New Tampa.

But, the encouraging number of distressed properties foreclosures and short sales may also hinder New Tampas sales recovery. Distressed properties drag down home values, taking conventional for-sale properties with them. And once the distressed inventory is exhausted, conventional home prices typically jump to meet demand. Without the distressed properties, New Tampa is less likely to enjoy a huge leap in median sold price.

The potential for a second wave of foreclosures in Tampa looms, too. The shadow market distressed properties nearing foreclosure or those not yet listed by lenders is a growing, Florida-wide concern for economists and homeowners.

Florida has one of the largest shadow inventories in the nation; eventually lenders are likely to re-sell these properties at deep discounts, preventing a healthy rebound in home prices, Sean Snaith, Director of UCFs Institute for Economic Competiveness, said from UCFTV.

The shadow market has yet to creep into the Tampa market, but fears still exist banks are holding back foreclosures. Todays paradox would, again, impact New Tampa: presumably lower on distressed properties, but still off todays buyer radar.

Home buyers are smarter than ever. Theyre willing to wait this time to be sure that the market has fully recovered before they jump back in, said Gold.

But New Tampa sellers and dwellers have an ace in the hole. The market, without the distressed properties and hemorrhaging values, is considered stable compared to other Tampa areas. Tampa Palms holds steady with distressed median sales reaching 71 percent of conventional sold prices.

The past six months of Tampa Bay data suggest the wild mood swings in median home prices have subsided. Although real estate gurus want to see a yearlong upward trend, the signs are encouraging. And New Tampa is better positioned for a healthy recovery.

Unless you’re an investor, stabilization is what you want, not a rapid rebound,” Gold said. “We are talking about housing not race-horses and this asset class should never rapidly go anywhere.”

The American dream of home ownership is not dead, but its still on life support, Warren Gold said. New Tampas life support system appears to be stronger than most.

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VaultLogix, the only online backup provider focused on delivering a solution customized to each business customers specific data backup needs, today announced a new upgrade to its market-leading online backup solution, Internet Vault Advantage (IV-Advantage) 11.1. IV-Advantage 11.1 is a hybrid online backup solution that enables business users to backup their data both locally to storage of their choice and offsite to VaultLogix vaults.

The secure online backup service was originally introduced in 2008 and is part of the VaultLogix suite of online backup solutions that provide VaultLogix with the unique ability to customize a data backup solution for each business customer that optimizes speed, availability, and offsite protection given each customers unique data, business, recovery, and budgetary needs. Consistent with the VaultLogix focus on continuous improvement, IV-Advantage has improved its local backup capabilities, reducing the storage needed for customer backups and therefore allowing the customer to either reduce the amount of storage dedicated to data backup, or increase the amount of data they protect at no additional storage cost. With the storage usage reduction, IV-Advantage has also improved in backup speed, again providing the customer the opportunity to backup more data locally within their backup window availability.

In addition, VaultLogix has added the capability for a user to restore a file backed up to the VaultLogix vault from any Web-connected mobile device, such as an iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, or Android device. The restored file could then be emailed or uploaded to its ultimate destination, or viewed directly in the device if it has the software compatible with the restored file type.

VaultLogix consistently strives to provide more capabilities and a better user experience for our business customers, said Shane Arnold, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for VaultLogix. This new release increases the opportunity for our customers to define a backup strategy that best meets their budget and recovery requirements.

The new version, IV-Advantage 11.1, will be available to customers in late March. Businesses with data backup needs can contact VaultLogix directly to define the right data backup solution for their business needs.

About VaultLogix

VaultLogix believes that data backup is not a one size fits all solution. The Internet Vault suite of online backup solutions safeguards customer data in the optimal way based on the particular needs of each business. Each solution VaultLogix implements can back up data both locally and offsite, ensuring that customers can recover from data loss with the optimal combination of speed, availability, and offsite protection. In addition to providing the benefits that businesses require, VaultLogix also delivers industry-leading solutions for remote backup service support, billing, marketing and integration for VARs, MSPs and IT Consultants.

For more information, visit http://www.dataprotection.com or call 1-877-VAULTLOGIX (877-828-5856).

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