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.

I recently went through an unhappy experience of losing a laptop. There is a lot of personal and company data on the laptop and and going through the exercise of trying to determine all the information risk comes the realization of how lax I’ve been in mixing personal and professional information on my different desktops […]

As small and midsize businesses plan to spend more than ever on storage solutions to hold their growing volumes of data, we run down the options. An efficient, effective means of storage is vital to business continuity in the event of disaster. Whether disasters are on an upturn is debatable; the growing volume of data […]

Business TechEdge reviews RBackup v9.4. [more]

Remote Backup Systems’ CEO Rob Cosgrove and others talk about data deduplication, Archiving, and Backup Lifecycle Management in this Processor Magazine article. [more]