In researching offsite data backup and recovery services, I’ve read a number of horror stories about business owners that subscribed to (and paid for) an online backup service for many months, only to find that they could not actually recover their information when they needed to. Why would this happen?

(DAILY NEWS) – Small business owners know that a savvy way to boost sluggish income is to adopt new sales tactics. As it turns out, the sales aspect of the job is the most painful part for many business owners.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Remote Backup Systems Inc. (RBS), the originator of remote online backup technology, today announced that it has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork, ensuring RBS service providers and endusers of the company‘s award-winning RBackupâ„¢ remote backup software will have the highest level of integration across the full spectrum of Oracle‘s software portfolio.

News Feed (Infostor) – The entry of heavyweights such as EMC and Symantec may spur increased interest in online backup and recovery.

From the Blogs: Maryland lawmakers Nov. 19 approved a 6 percent sales tax on computer services, a move industry groups call harmful to business and service.

REUTERS – A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the White House from destroying back-up copies of deleted e-mails. The order by U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy came Monday as part of a lawsuit by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a private watchdog group, that claims the White […]

Business continuity is best thought of as the test of how your business would cope when things go wrong. It is as important for small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as it is for multinationals.

RBS has announced that it has successfully completed compatibility testing with its industry-defining RBackup Remote Backup Server and VMware. This is good news for VARs and MSPs who want to take advantage of the efficiency, uptime, and business continuity features of VMware with their online backup servers. The currently-shipping version of RBackup is compatible with […]

Last week a hard drive in my home file server died, taking hundreds of gigabytes of MP3s, movies, source code, and other things with it (including the uncompressed master copies of all my cinematic masterpieces). Fortunately, I had backed up the important stuff using Mozy. Unfortunately, Mozy’s restore functionality turns out to suck. Bigtime.

Remote Backup Systems, the leader in providing Online Backup Software for VARs and MSPs, has reduced prices on most of its software packages by as much as half, making RBS the most affordable software in the marketplace.