What new products, features or services do you want?
October 9th, 2011
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We would like to know what new products, features or services you want to see in the future. Please take a moment to let us know.
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Online Backup Company Opens Hot Site for Hurricane Irene
August 23rd, 2011
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Remote Backup Systems, the founders of the online backup industry and developers of the RBackup and Mercury OEM Online Backup platforms activated its Emergency Backup Hot Site for use by its Service Providers in the path of hurricane Irene.
Make the Right Choice in an Online Backup Software Vendor
August 13th, 2011
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Since RBS started the Online Backup industry in 1987 many other companies have come and gone, most of them attempting to follow in our footsteps. Over the past 24 years many of these “me-too” companies have based their software on the basic protocol that we invented.
The basic process is simple and has few variants. To do a backup, compress changed data, encrypt it, send it over a network to be stored on a remote server, and make sure it got there safely.
To do a restore, present the user with an interface to select data, download the data from the server, decrypt it, then decompress it and put it back on the local computer, and make sure it got there safely.
Is Your Online Backup Data Really Secure – Six Questions to Ask Your Service Provider
August 2nd, 2011
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Various data privacy regulations require compliance by many companies who use Online Backup services. Generally, the regulations require that companies ensure their data are completely inaccessible except by authorized people.
Starting An Online Backup Service in Today’s Economy – a Free Whitepaper
July 14th, 2011
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Our free white paper discusses the state of the industry from the inside perspective of an industry expert, Rob Cosgrove. It explains why the current economic environment is perfect for Online Backup startups, and gives insight into the costs and profit potential of the business.
Great Customer Service Idea from a Pest Control Company
July 7th, 2011
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Here’s a great customer service idea that I learned from a pest control service. Not only did this make me feel great about Terminix, but it will potentially save them some money.
Asus eee Slate Broken Power Plug – BAD Engineering
July 1st, 2011
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The two of you who read my blog regularly (my mom and one of my dogs) know that I sometimes get up on a soapbox and start shouting about something. WELL here I go again. This time it’s about some really bad engineering that went into making the Asus EEE Slate power plug.
Channel Register Gets it Wrong, Claiming Cheaper Hard Drives Compete With Online Backup Services
June 28th, 2011
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Recently the IT blog Channel Register posted an article critical of a recent survey by BackBlaze, the Online Backup company. The survey showed (duh) that hard drive prices were getting cheaper. In the article Tim Worstall asserted that by posting those results, BackBlaze were shooting themselves in the foot. But he’s British, so Tim said it in a far superior way:
Blasting Biassed Blog(s) Masquerading as Legitimate News Source(s)
June 18th, 2011
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When I was young I wanted to be a newspaper man. So I trained as a journalist and learned old school journalism and the New York Times stylebook. One of the basic tenants of journalism back then was to “remain objective,” and report the news without bias. Otherwise an article is not “news,” rather, it is mere opinion and belongs on the op-ed page, if anywhere at all.
RBS Opens Emergency Hot Site for 2011 Hurricane Season
June 13th, 2011
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Remote Backup Systems, the founders of the online backup industry and developers of the RBackup and Mercury OEM Online Backup platforms activated its Emergency Backup Hot Site for use by its Service Providers in the path of hurricane activity this season.