The book, The Laws of Subtraction by Matthew May a former consultant to Toyota, is due out later this month and emphasizes a subtraction management style for corporate leaders. via Try a ‘stop-doing’ list to increase productivity | SmartPlanet.

If you’re looking for a free tool to help you easily hide data from prying eyes and don’t want to have to deal with encryption, Wise Folder Hider might be the ideal choice. via Safeguard your data with Wise Folder Hider | TechRepublic.

Microsoft is preparing for its biggest operating system launch for two decades – but tech leaders aren’t convinced they need to jump on the bandwagon, at least not yet. via Does Windows 8 make sense on business desktops? Tech chiefs are split | TechRepublic.

  Remote Backup Systems Reinvents Hybrid Backup Standard Hybrid Backup methods back up data offsite and to a local backup location. Two copies of backup data are maintained – one offsite and one local, and the client can restore from either location. It is much faster to restore from a local copy, and having an […]

  by Mitch Romm In the past, I’ve written about the “S.M.A.R.T.” backup service Dr.Backup clients enjoy. SMART is an acronym for the major service components of a professionally managed backup service. These include Setup, Monitoring, Alerting, Restoring and Testing.

Our latest newsletter is out, and contains some important news for the Online Backup industry, including the release of RBackup version 11.7, Bare Metal Backup & Restore, a 30% off Maintenance sale, and more.

Many years ago, a fantastic accounts manager taught me about the proper mix of opportunities to work with to maximize success. Essentially, there are two types of accounts: Elephants, and Ducks. Elephants are large corporations, and the rest are Ducks. If you spend all year hunting for Elephants, your chances of success will be slim, but the payout will be large. If you spend all year hunting for Ducks, and you'll have some success, but the payout will be small. The trick is to have a good mixture of Elephants and Ducks in your list of prospects. If you are a small company, you shouldn't be afraid to go Elephant hunting, but large companies shouldn't forget about the Ducks, either.

I will discuss the technical factors. Of course the technical stuff doesn’t do you any good unless you can market it effectively. Your customers will pay for the perceived value of your Online Backup service.

Today’s a significant anniversary in the history of recorded music: the world’s first CD players were announced in Japan on October 1st, 1982. via The CD is 30 years old today | whathifi.com.

Windows 8 will fail in the enterprise because of the “big gamble” Microsoft took in designing it more for tablets than traditional PCs. So warns Gartner, which adds that the operating system will never get more than 20% to 25% of the enterprise market. Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Steve Kleynhan wrote in a research […]

Computerworld – A security researcher known for finding Java bugs has uncovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all currently-supported versions of the popular Oracle software.The bug, which was publicly reported on the Full Disclosure security mailing list Tuesday by Adam Gowdiak, the founder and CEO of Polish security firm Security Explorations, can be leveraged […]