RBS Opens Emergency Hot Site for 2011 Hurricane Season
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.
Remote Backup Systems has offered this business-saving service to their clients dating back to hurricane Hugo in 1989. This resource is available to online backup service providers affected by natural disasters such as hurricanes, winter storms, widespread power outages, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, and floods affecting their data center.
If an RBS Server goes offline because of a natural disaster, RBS can temporarily take backups from provider’s clients at the Hot Site near Memphis, Tennessee, so the Service Provider doesn’t suffer further. When the disaster is over and the providers’ servers go back online, they can download the backups and resume normal business.
Meteorologists are calling for an active 2011 hurricane season compared to last year, with 12 to 18 named storms and 3 to 6 major hurricanes. Remote Backup Systems encourages all of its Online Backup Service Providers in threatened areas to visit the company’s website at http://www.remote-backup.com for more information on the Hot Site service, including guidelines and instructions for activation.
But Remote Backup Systems wants to remind Service Providers that a natural disaster can occur any time, year round.
“This year Memphis was hit hard with record flooding. Being in the business of Disaster Recovery, we are always prepared,” said Rob Cosgrove, CEO and founder of Remote Backup Systems, “We open our Hot Site at no charge to help our Service Providers who need us.”
Built into Remote Backup Systems multi-award winning flagship product, RBackup, is a special feature called the Server Locator. It enables a service provider to maintain normal business in the event of a disaster by immediately transferring end users to the RBS Hot Site. It also enables them to move their RBS Servers safely to any Internet connection with a dynamic IP address anywhere in the world on a moment’s notice. No other company offers this cutting-edge service.
In an outage of Internet service, Providers can simply move their equipment to an alternate location with Internet service, and the Server Locator will seamlessly redirect their clients within seconds to the new location.
For more information on Remote Backup Systems, visit the company’s website http://www.remote-backup.com.
About Remote Backup Systems Inc.
Remote Backup Systems, Inc. is the global leader in turnkey Online Backup solutions to MSPs, VARs, ISPs and Managed Hosting Providers, providing leading edge functionality, best-in-class customer support, and an unwavering commitment to product quality and customer satisfaction. With a twenty-one year history in Remote Backup technologies, RBS is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Rob Cosgrove’s latest book, The Online Backup Guide for Service Providers is available at Amazon.com and bookstores.
If you would like more information, or to schedule an interview with Rob Cosgrove, please phone Elizabeth Greenup at (901) 405-1234 or email elizabeth@remote-backup.com
