by Kat Cosgrove Yesterday evening, Hurricane Sandy/East Coast Super Storm/Frankenstorm made landfall. New York City is nearly shut down, it’s snowing in West Virginia, and this guy rode a jet ski through a flooded New Jersey neighborhood.

  This weekend and early next week Hurricane Sandy is expected to combine with two other storm systems to produce a rare late-season Super Storm that could affect a wide area on the US East Coast.

  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 Partners in the path of the approaching East Coast Super Storm.

  New service automatically migrates entire Windows servers into the cloud. Remote Backup Systems, developers of Online Backup Software for MSPs is pleased to announce that it has partnered with SysCloudSoft to provide new cloud migration and recovery to Amazon AWS solutions to millions of businesses via their global network of managed service providers.

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.