Entitled "Disaster Recovery: Are You Ready?" the trade show's primary focus was on products that can minimise a company's downtime and protect the company's data, whether through virus protection or to the extreme catastrophic event similar to Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne last year, Amoury Company Ltd. General Manager Thomas A. Leeder said.

Mr. Leeder noted that persons visiting the trade show met with a wide variety of vendors both from the United States and locally. Among them were big names such as McAfee, Canon, and Fujitsu.

A wide variety of McAfee products, ranging from ad blockers to spy filters to spyware removal tools, were on display at the trade show. The company is a leading manufacturer of anti-virus products for the corporate environment.

Sonicwall representatives were also in attendance. Sonicwall is a leading manufacturer of hardware firewalls which gives corporations the power to stop hackers and malicious users from accessing their networks and also controlling a user's ability to access the internet within an organisation.

A select range of scanners by both Canon and Fujitsu were also shown. According to Mr. Leeder, these products allow companies to take their paper documents and create digital images on their computers which can then be backed up and placed in a secure location and retrieved should a disaster occur.

Other products to view included Iware Payroll Solutions, a payroll programme that was written by Andrew Roberts, a well-known and respected Grand Bahamian for the Bahamian market.

"Payroll Solution addresses the needs of processing payroll in The Bahamas," Mr. Leeder explained. "It calculates and performs all of the National Insurance deductions automatically. Then, at the end of the month, you can print a report to be submitted to NIB with all of the contributions for the month. The Amoury Company is an authorised reseller of the Iware product line."

Also on hand was Ace Retail Point of Sale systems, which offers everything from entry level POS systems to replace your cash register to multi-user systems that can be used in multiple-lane convenience stores.

Founded in 1941 in Nassau, Amoury Company Ltd. is the oldest and most respected office products and supplies provider. They are the largest IBM Business partner in The Bahamas and have won many prestigious awards from IBM, including the coveted Blue Ribbon award.

They are the largest Canon and Kyocera Mita dealer in The Bahamas and are the exclusive Kyocera Mita, Pitney Bowes, Kronos and Dictaphone dealer in the country.

The company prides itself on providing a service that is second to none.

"I would like to thank the Grand Bahama business community for so wholeheartedly supporting our trade show and making it such a resounding success," Mr. Leeder stated. "Due to the turnout, we are now looking into making this an annual event and will be actively looking into how such an event can best serve the Grand Bahama business community."