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<strong>April</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
THE VALLEY BUSINESS JOURNAL<br />
www.TheValleyBusinessJournal.com<br />
Plateau Garden Tour Party<br />
The Santa Rosa Plateau Nature<br />
Education Foundation’s annual Garden<br />
Tour and Garden Party highlights five<br />
beautiful and unique private gardens<br />
nestled in La Cesta area on the Santa<br />
Rosa Plateau. Now in its 13th year, the<br />
tour has become an event favorite for<br />
local gardening and nature enthusiasts.<br />
This year’s theme “Gardening in Mother<br />
Nature’s Backyard” will feature gardens<br />
that have been designed by their owners<br />
to compliment and integrate Mother Nature’s<br />
unpredictable effects on gardening.<br />
Garden properties are described as<br />
1) A “Mountain view of the Santa Rosa”<br />
includes an example of how to lose a<br />
lawn; 2) “A Foodies’ Paradise”, the<br />
edible garden, 3) “Inspired by Nature”,<br />
full of amazing secret gardens, and 4)<br />
“Formal on the Plateau” including a<br />
display of vintage cars around the pond<br />
and Egret nests.<br />
The Garden Party component will<br />
be held at Plateau Vineyards, a boutique<br />
winery where lunch will be available<br />
at the Garden Café, the Beer and Wine<br />
Garden serving the new Plateau Vineyard<br />
wines and Stone Brewing Co. craft beers,<br />
live entertainment, Secret Garden Silent<br />
Auction and a Garden Market Place.<br />
UCR Master Gardeners will be on hand<br />
with gardening tips.<br />
Tickets are on sale now at www.srpf.<br />
org or may be purchased the Santa Rosa<br />
Plateau Visitor Center, 39400 Clinton<br />
Keith Road. Tickets are also available<br />
by phone at 800-369-4620. General<br />
admission garden tour tickets, including<br />
SUBJECT:<br />
BENEFIT:<br />
DATE:<br />
LOCATION:<br />
the garden party site are $25 for Foundation<br />
members and $35 for non-members.<br />
Day of the event tickets are $40.<br />
Attendees can drive themselves and<br />
visit the gardens in the order of their<br />
choice, or decide to purchase in advance<br />
a $15.00 shuttle ticket and travel to the<br />
gardens in an air conditioned, luxury<br />
limo bus. Garden Café lunch tickets are<br />
purchased in advance for $15.00. Combo<br />
tickets that include the tour, garden party,<br />
lunch and the shuttle tickets are available<br />
for $50 for Foundation members and $60<br />
for non-members. General admission<br />
and shuttle tickets can be purchased on<br />
the day of the event at the The Trails<br />
Circle entry to La Cresta. Combo and<br />
lunch tickets are advance purchase only.<br />
The event is a fundraiser to support<br />
“No Child Left Inside” children’s<br />
nature education programs at the Santa<br />
Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve. The<br />
programs, serving approximately 8,000<br />
youth in grades 3-12 from 10 local school<br />
districts, provide much needed nature<br />
education opportunities to students in<br />
Southwest Riverside County. SRPNEF<br />
provides all programs at no cost to participating<br />
schools and classrooms.<br />
13th Annual SANTA ROSA PLATEAU FOUNDATION<br />
Garden Tour & Garden Party –<br />
“Gardening in Mother Nature’s Backyard”<br />
Children’s Nature Education Programs for grades 3-12 at<br />
the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve<br />
Saturday, May 14th - 10am – 5pm<br />
Five garden properties featuring diverse outdoor garden settings<br />
designed with the impact of Mother Nature in mind.<br />
EVENT &<br />
TICKET INFO: www.srpf.org 800-369-4620<br />
What’s Your Backup Plan?<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
by<br />
by<br />
Stefani<br />
Steve Fillingim<br />
Laszko<br />
You’ve made sure your car, house<br />
and business is protected with appropriate<br />
insurance but what have you done to<br />
protect the data on your computer? These<br />
days, replacing a computer is quick and<br />
relatively low cost but what would you<br />
do without the information stored on it?<br />
Ask anyone that has had a data loss how<br />
important a good backup is and you’ll<br />
be happy that you did the planning now.<br />
Many questions go into determining<br />
what type of backup makes the most<br />
sense for your business data. Onsite versus<br />
offsite, how much needs to be stored,<br />
how many computers and servers, how<br />
often you want to backup, etc. are all<br />
things to be considered. The three main<br />
options of computer backup are tape<br />
drive, disk to disk and cloud.<br />
Tape drive backup is the oldest<br />
method of backing up but it is still very<br />
reliable when used correctly though it<br />
does require human intervention. Along<br />
with being relatively expensive, a tape<br />
drive backup will not be of any use if the<br />
tapes are left onsite and a disaster occurs.<br />
I’ve heard of employees taking the tapes<br />
home with them but then you also run the<br />
risk of something happening to it when<br />
it’s out of the office.<br />
USB drives, external hard drives and<br />
network drives are all examples of Disk<br />
Lawn Woes? Look to Elsinore Eddie’s Efficient Gardens<br />
for Inspiration!<br />
With outdoor water use accounting for nearly 70% of an average water bill, reconsidering a more water<br />
friendly landscape is essential. Let Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District (EVMWD) show you how<br />
simple it is to turn that grass yard into a gorgeous and colorful California friendly garden. EVMWD offers<br />
design templates, a full plant library, and irrigation tips and tricks at its new site www.eddiegardens.com.<br />
Customers can also stroll through Elsinore Eddie’s Efficient Gardens located at the EVMWD Headquarters,<br />
31315 Chaney Street in Lake Elsinore, and the Storm Stadium, 500 Diamond Drive, Lake Elsinore,<br />
to see design options, climate appropriate plants, and water saving irrigation devices. To learn more, visit<br />
www.eddiegardens.com<br />
9<br />
to Disk (D2D) backup systems. Compared<br />
to a tape backup system, a D2D is<br />
less expensive and much quicker. Again<br />
though, human intervention is involved<br />
and for higher level of protection the<br />
devices should not be kept under the<br />
same roof.<br />
Cloud backup solutions are understandably<br />
becoming the standard among<br />
small to medium size businesses. Most<br />
importantly, cloud solutions are safe from<br />
burglary and natural disasters, easily<br />
accessible from an Internet connection<br />
and there’s no physical device to lose<br />
or break. Human intervention is also<br />
minimal; often you are just looking for<br />
a “backup successful” indicator. The<br />
downside is that you’re entrusting your<br />
information to someone else so you must<br />
feel comfortable with a company you<br />
are working with and ensure that they<br />
are utilizing proper safeguards such as<br />
encryption.<br />
Regardless of the method you choose,<br />
proper setup and ongoing verification of<br />
successful backups is the key to protecting<br />
your data. No matter how computer<br />
savvy you are it never hurts to speak with<br />
an IT professional to make sure that your<br />
plan makes sense. Again, just ask someone<br />
who has lost their QuickBooks files<br />
or years of customer data and they’ll tell<br />
you how important it is to have a proper<br />
backup solution in place, giving you the<br />
peace of mind that your data is protected.<br />
Mythos Technology is an IT consulting<br />
and management firm. For more information,<br />
please visit www.mythostech.com<br />
or call (951) 813-2672.<br />
connect: www.mythostech.com
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