The Internet is abuzz, and we think it’s time we commented on the NSA’s PRISM operation.
If you haven’t yet heard of this project, it’s an unfortunately legal collaborative project between the NSA, FBI, and and several tech giants that you, even if you’re outside of the US, likely rely on daily. Read more…
Remote Backup Systems, founders of the online backup industry and developers of the RBackup and Mercury OEM Online Backup platforms, has activated its Emergency Backup Hot Site for use by its Partmers in the path of hurricane activity this season, at no cost. Read more…
Remote Backup Systems‘ new Partner’s Portal is now open and out of Beta. Partners with active Maintenance Subscriptions now have access to the Portal at no additional charge. The Partner’s Portal contains advanced tools and resources, and is fully compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
You can get to the Portal from the main website, under the “Partners” menu, or you can browse directly to:
http://portal.remote-backup.com
Log in with your email address (the one on file at RBS) and your serial number. If you have multiple serial numbers, you have multiple Portal accounts. With your first login, your Password is your serial number. Please change your password. Read more…
The Titan Arum at Ohio State University bloomed about two hours ago. It is a huge perfect specimen of the largest flower in the world. It is also among the most stinky flowers in the world. Its common name is the corpse flower. Read more…
Remote Backup Systems announces the mid-May release of a new Partner’s Portal. Partners with active Maintenance Subscriptions will have access to the Portal at no additional charge. The Partner Portal contains advanced tools and resources, and is fully compatible with smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Read more…
Kat Cosgrove – RBS Director of Marketing
Last week, ArsTechnica posted this article. An ISP called CMA Communications, providing services in rural areas of a couple of Southern states, is participating in some seriously shady advertising tactics: injecting ads into websites without the owner’s permission or knowledge by adding a line of Javascript to the HTML of each website as it loads. Read more…
RBS today announced a new initiative aimed at preventing the wonton destruction of letters and numbers, called the Typographical Conservation Initiative.
“Too many of us use the backspace key and delete key without thinking about the destruction we are causing in the typographical ecosystem,†said Rob Cosgrove, CEO of Remote Backup Systems, “I’m guilty, too. Back there when I tried to type destruction, I accidentally hit the R instead of an E and I thoughtlessly backspaced over four innocent letters to get back to the R, then I murdered it without a thought, replacing it with a more ‘correct’ E.â€
RBS encourages everyone to SAVE THE LETTERS. Instead of deleting, please cut and paste your typographical errors into a “holding document†where they can be recycled. Check your holding document before you type, to see if there is a letter you can recycle instead of using a new one.
As part of the Typographical Conservation Initiative RBS will develop an open source application that can automatically save mistakenly used letters erased with the backspace and delete keys. It will recycle them automatically as you type, thus saving millions of letters.
“We hope someday to be able to save whole words, or maybe even entire sentences,†explained Cosgrove.
Remote Backup Systems now has live support for Europe from 9AM to 11PM GMT. This corresponds to 4AM to 5PM US Central Time. Our Partners can contact Tech Support by phone or live chat through our European or USA phone numbers, and on our website’s “Live Help†button. Read more…
Pay only for what you use. Start your Online Backup Service for as little as $250 and $60/month. Read more…
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Expect a lot more backup and disaster recovery BDR coverage in the weeks ahead as managed services providers MSPs prepare for tornado season, which begins in March. Case in point: BDR and intelligent business continuity IBC vendor Datto Inc. recently tapped into the experience of one of its partners to provide guidance for everyone on the Datto blog. Here’s the scoop.
via Backup and Disaster Recovery: Tornado Season Refresher | MSPmentor.
