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.

It’s in there. RBackup is the most feature-rich online backup software available. In our more than 23 years in business we have already solved every problem you might have. If you don’t see a feature that you need, it’s probably because it is hidden behind a menu you haven’t found yet. Pick up the phone and call us. We will tell you where to look.

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Remote Backup Systems ranks among the world’s top 100 cloud service providers (CSPs), according to Nine Lives Media’s second-annual Talkin’ Cloud 100 report.

We just finished reading PR Newswire’s latest ebook called Unlocking Social Media for P.R. Their master blogger and social media expert, Sarah Skerik penned the ebook from a series of her compelling blog entries. The result is an excellent resource for any marketers looking to jump in (at last) to the social media pool.

• LISTEN first.  Don’t publish a single tweet, status update, or post until you have really listened to the conversation. Skerik recommends starting out by following your favorite brands and studying their social media technique for some time.
• Learn from the best. Skerik gives us three companies to watch on Facebook. Each has a presence that stimulates Wall conversation and offers shareworthy content in a way that is unique to their brand. Follow these companies to learn what works best and how to tweak your own approach.
• Be succinct. The tighter the message, the better the Tweet. Keep it short, sweet, and to the point and your Tweets will earn re-Tweeting. Scheduling Tweets is acceptable, says Skerik, but craft each with a different angle to ensure your coverage appeals across your entire audience.
• Don’t ignore LinkedIn. Skerik reminds us that LinkedIn is completely unique because it allows users to more specifically define their interests and align themselves with their professional peers. This is an invaluable resource for targeted PR.

I’ve told you this before. As part of our ongoing competitive research here at RBS we (like everyone else in business should be doing) shop our competitors for price and features, among other things. And we buy their software. They don’t know who we are, and they send us their advertising stuff, and often a […]

A recent widely distributed report shows that malware (viruses, Trojans, etc) get backed up and restored regularly, and may be bypassing antivirus measures. I don’t have an issue with that. I agree with it. However, I DO have an issue with how the authors came up with their data.

Before starting your Online Backup Service you have several decisions to make about hosting your RBS Server. Your decision will help define the kinds of services you can offer your end users, your costs, your “trust factor,” and your profit potential.

This release adds brick level backup and restore of Exchange 2010, with features to export and import PST files. There’s a new multithreaded scan engine, and a new compression and encryption engine that makes much better use of multi-core processors, speeding up backups significantly. New Unicode filename support for up to 259 characters, Folder Redirections and Junction Point support were added, along with a new seventh language, Swedish. Many more overall improvements have been made for better memory management and faster (and bigger) backups and restores.