Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday his social networking company just finished building an unmanned aerial system that can “beam down Internet connectivity from the sky.” It’s called Aquila, and demonstrates not only solar-powered flight, but a new way to connect to the Internet. via Facebook Builds UAS That Beams Down Wi-Fi – AVweb flash […]

  The Windows 10 rollout has been relatively smooth, but there are plenty of users who never received the Get Windows 10 app and are still waiting in line for their turn to update. Unfortunately, scammers have seen how desperate Windows users are for the update, which is why it should come as no surprise […]

  Join us at 11AM US Central Time this morning (Tuesday, 28 July) for a free form webinar discussing RBackup brandable, self-hosted Online Backup software. Rob Cosgrove will present, answering questions and demonstrating the software. Bring your questions and suggestions! Join the webinar at 11AM US Central Time by clicking this link: Click Here  

Today we're announcing that our flagship RBackup brandable, self-hosted Online Backup platform for MSPs (version 11.12) has passed all compatibility tests for Windows 10. The RBS Server and the Endpoint software runs 100% on Windows 10.

The RBS Partner’s Portal is a great resource for streamlining your online backup service. With tools for converting graphics, building Endpoint installers, file sharing and more, the Partner’s Portal is available 24x7 to all Partners with active Maintenance Subscriptions.

Vembu is a company in India who, in 2004, started selling online backup software to compete with Remote Backup Systems. It’s no secret that we don’t get along. They think I’m a bully, and I think their software is dangerous, ill conceived, and bad for the industry. We’ve fought blog wars.

A few days ago while doing some research I came across a website that made me do a double-take. It’s called “nsabackups.com” and it LOOKS like the real NSA (National Security Agency) website, using the real NSA government seals, but it is advertising an online backup service.

Successful individuals such as Benjamin Franklin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, all met with groups of like-minded people on a regular basis, to help one another achieve common goals and grow. Today, this is called a “mastermind”, first coined by Napoleon Hill in 1925. In this article, I’m going to go over what […]

Your computer has been stolen! Based on the statistics we’ve gathered over the past 8 years let’s see how much of your data is lost. By lost data we mean the photos, documents, spreadsheets, etc. you changed or added on your computer since your last backup. via Computer Backup: Pick a Card, Any Card.

The fact that your backup strategy is stupid does not imply that you are stupid. It only means you may not have given careful thought to what disasters could harm your data (theft, fire, hurricane, malware, software bugs, user error, and so on) or exactly what steps you would take if something did go wrong. […]

Most of us in the online backup business wear two hats – tech and sales, and most of us don’t like putting on the sales hat. I’ve been on this guy’s mailing list for a while now, and his is one of the most useful (and well done) regular emails I get. He does a […]