Hurricane season may have officially started on June 1, but the riskiest part of the season is only just beginning, said scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). http://www.livescience.com/55863-peak-hurricane-day-approaches.html

Meteorologists expect tropical storm Gaston to become a hurricane by the coming weekend, perhaps becoming the first major hurricane in the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, which started on June 1. RBS Partners in coastal areas are encouraged to make use of your Emergency Hot Sites if necessary. Hot Sites are free of charge to any […]

Remote Backup Systems has just released a new Software Rental license and in-house financing. With the new Rental option, MSPs can start their own in-house online backup service for as little as $78/month, hosting their own backup servers and customer data completely in-house.

RBS revived our Tuesday Live Chat yesterday at 2PM and encountered some problems with the new IRC server. It seems it worked great during testing, but when we put it under load it choked. We finally found and fixed the problem (we raised the number of connections allowed through WEBIRC) but it took us an […]

Way back in the olden days RBS hosted a weekly live one-hour round table chat via IRC. We often had sixty or more participants in two or three discussion channels talking about everything related to Online Backup. We discussed pricing, technical issues, marketing, and more. Now we’re going to try it again! Our first Live […]

Today we’re announcing the release of the latest version of RBackup, v11.16.003. It is available for download now at the Partner’s Portal. There are some new features and lots of tweaks that you can read about below. [v11.16.003 Change Log] Download this update from the Partner’s Portal and run it on your RBS Server.  

Large UK companies are amongst the hardest hit by ransomware in western countries according to a new report commissioned by Malwarebytes. The report found that more than half of large firms had been affected—and that nine percent had been left “entirely unable to operate.” via More than half of UK firms have been hit by […]