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	<title>Remote Backup Knowledge Base</title>
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	<description>The Sum Total of All the World's Knowledge About Remote Backup</description>
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		<title>Rob Cosgrove, RBS&#8217; CEO, Interviewed on Backupanytime.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Rob Cosgrove of Remote Backup Systems for taking time out from his busy schedule to participate in this interview. His story is fascinating. If you have an interest in any of  the following you will love this. Cars, record breaking, world firsts, online backup , I.T. pioneers, flying, life, enthusiasm and predictions for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/rob-cosgrove-rbs-ceo-interviewed-on-backupanytimecom/</link>
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		<title>Mercury Online Backup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mercury Online Backup


I introduced my latest Online Backup project, codenamed &#8220;Mercury&#8221;, back on June 23. Since then I realized that if I wanted Mercury to be able to beat the likes of Mozy on both price and features, Mercury would have to do more, and do it better. It would also have to use a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/mercury-mozy-killer/</link>
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		<title>Remote Backup Systems&#8217; CEO Offers Clues to Latest Online Backup Platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on the heels of the highly successful launch of our RBackup version 10 a few weeks ago, RBS is now preparing to launch a brand new Online Backup product that will open lucrative new markets for our Service Providers.

Codenamed “Mercury”, our latest software is designed to compete head to head with the likes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/remote-backup-systems-ceo-offers-clues-to-latest-online-backup-platform/</link>
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		<title>Offsite Backup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Offsite backup, also known as remote backup, is the process of backing up important computer data and files to a server or other storage device located in a separate physical location. Typically, offsite backup or remote backup software is installed on the resource which houses the original data store. Files are selected, a schedule is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/offsite-backup/</link>
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		<title>Remote Backup Systems Releases Public Beta of RBackup® v10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remote Backup Systems Releases Public Beta of RBackup® v10(Memphis, TN April 22, 2008) Remote Backup Systems Inc. (RBS), the originator of online backup technology, today announced the release of the Public Beta of version 10 of its award-winning RBackup® Online Backup Software.
VARs and MSPs use RBackup to offer Online Backup Services to their customers, hosting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/remote-backup-systems-releases-public-beta-of-rbackup%c2%ae-v10/</link>
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		<title>RBackup Remote Backup Software Reviewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kickstart News (kickstartnews.com) recently completed in-depth testing of RBackup, and a review of its place in the Remote Backup business.
&#8220;Remote Backup Systems and the RBackup Remote Backup Software offer an easy and robust way to get into the remote data backup business using a set of products which are both highly configurable for the needs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/rbackup-remote-backup-software-reviewed/</link>
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		<title>Survey reveals that more than half of all businesses have no e-mail backup and recovery plan in place.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Preimesberger - A new study confirms what a great many people in IT already suspected: Companies of all sizes are vulnerable to costly and damaging e-mail outages because they trust their messaging infrastructure to a single server and do not have an adequate backup and recovery plan in case of a disaster.
ApplicationContinuity.org surveyed 434 IT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/survey-reveals-that-more-than-half-of-all-businesses-have-no-e-mail-backup-and-recovery-plan-in-place/</link>
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		<title>14,000 E-mail Accounts Accidentally Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By JIM SALTER, AP Business Writer
ST. LOUIS - Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts.
There is no way to retrieve the messages, photos and other attachments that were erased from inboxes and archive folders across the country on Monday, said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/14000-e-mail-accounts-accidentally-lost/</link>
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		<title>Identity Theft Protection Specialist Loses Unencrypted Tape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Jander, Byte and Switch
An unencrypted backup tape missing from an Iron Mountain storage facility has forced a major credit card company that specializes in online credit protection to contact hundreds of thousands of customers.

GE Money, a Stamford, Conn.-based subsidiary of General Electric that manages credit card transactions for retailers, acknowledges that backup data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/identity-theft-protection-specialist-loses-unencrypted-tape/</link>
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		<title>Disgruntled Worker Deleted $2.5 Million of Files</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Grayson Kamm, First Coast News
JACKSONVILLE, FL &#8212; The target may be high-tech, but the emotion involved is as old as humanity. Spite, anger, and revenge. Police say that&#8217;s what filled a woman&#8217;s heart after she picked up the classified ads.
When Marie Cooley came across a job that looked like hers in the classifieds, she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/disgruntled-worker-deleted-25-million-of-files/</link>
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		<title>Information on 650,000 Card Holders Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It took GE Money two months to reconstruct the missing tape and identify the people whose information was lost. Since December, the company has been notifying consumers in batches of several thousand and telling them to phone a call center set up to deal with the breach. The notification is expected to be completed next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/information-on-650000-card-holders-lost/</link>
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		<title>Online Backup Poised to Grow Fourfold by 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FRAMINGHAM, Mass.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Fueled by a combination of factors, including the tremendous growth in digital data generated by individuals and small businesses, the worldwide online backup services market is poised for growth. IDC estimates revenue for this emerging market to reach $715 million by 2011, representing a 33.3% compound annual growth (CAGR) between 2006 and 2011.
&#8220;Consumers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/fueled-by-tremendous-growth-in-data-generation-online-backup-services-market-is-emerging-and-poised-to-grow-fourfold-by-2011-idc-reveals/</link>
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		<title>Data breaches of personal info soar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press
The loss or theft of personal data such as credit-card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isn&#8217;t expected to turn around soon as hackers stay a step ahead of security and laptops disappear with sensitive information.
And while companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/data-breaches-of-personal-info-soar/</link>
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		<title>False Claims in Press Release Can Damage an Online Backup Company&#8217;s Reputation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Rob Cosgrove
CEO, Remote Backup Systems, Inc.
This morning I found the following press release in my news service. At first glance it looks like a standard news release published by a new Online Backup company just coming into the market.
This one was different, however, because it claims the company wrote its own backup software. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/false-claims-in-press-release-damage-online-backup-companys-reputation/</link>
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		<title>IDC Report says Remote Backup to Boom in 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Analysts see solid-state drives, online storage gaining steam. 
December 24, 2007 (Computerworld) &#8212; IT managers looking to boost storage efficiency next year will embrace online storage services, push de-duplication in the data center and adopt solid-state disk drives to help fuel hardware consolidation strategies and green initiatives, according to IDC&#8217;s top 10 storage predictions for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/idc-report-says-remote-backup-to-boom-in-2008/</link>
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		<title>Tucson police Web site will go back up this week, days after hacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tucson Police Department’s Web site, crippled nearly 2 weeks ago by a hacker, is expected to be back up and working within 48-hours, said the department’s webmaster.
The hacker, who goes by the handle “Hmei7,” cracked through the City’s firewall and the Police Department’s firewall to get into the Web site, said Pat Johnson, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/tucson-police-web-site-will-go-back-up-this-week-days-after-hacking/</link>
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		<title>Surviving Disasters: Questions and Considerations for Law Firms Preparing Business Continuity Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s an informative white paper from LexisNexis to assist law firms with disaster planning. 

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		<title>RBS and other vendors update storage features for virtual servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Storage features for server virtualization environments got a boost this week with the general availability of VMware&#8217;s Infrastructure 3.5. VMware rival Virtual Iron Software brought out version 4.2 of its virtual machine, which includes the ability to dynamically increase disk groups and virtual disks for storage on demand, multipathing features for high availability and disaster [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/rbs-and-other-vendors-update-storage-features-for-virtual-servers/</link>
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		<title>IDC says archiving drove software demand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to IDC&#8217;s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 16th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2007 with revenues of $2.8 billion, a 9.8% increase over the same quarter one year ago. EMC was tops in market share with 27.6%. Symantec followed with a 16.6% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/idc-says-archiving-drove-software-demand/</link>
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		<title>Remote Backup Systems Expands VMware Compatibility For RBS Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remote Backup Systems Inc. (RBS), the originator of remote online backup technology, today announced that its award-winning RBackup® remote backup software is now fully compatible with VMware Server, opening up the virtual world of VMware to the safety and cost benefits of RBS&#8217; remote online backup protection. 
 VMware Server compatibility expands the support by RBS for VMware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/remote-backup-systems-expands-vmware-compatibility-for-rbs-server/</link>
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		<title>Who are you, and what have you done with David Friend?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally I agree with David Friend of Carbonite, cofounder of my favorite of those $5/month online backup services with very few features and capabilities to meet its price. There’s a growing need for services like that – but not in the Business market.

His recent press release, however, doesn’t sound like him, unless he’s become desperate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/who-are-you-and-what-have-you-done-with-david-friend/</link>
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		<title>What Good Is Backup If You Can&#8217;t Recover Your Information?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In researching offsite data backup and recovery services, I&#8217;ve read a number of horror stories about business owners that subscribed to (and paid for) an online backup service for many months, only to find that they could not actually recover their information when they needed to. Why would this happen?

In fact, such &#8220;horror stories&#8221; are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/what-good-is-backup-if-you-cant-recover-your-information/</link>
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		<title>Remote Backup Service Provider Discusses How to Sell the Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(DAILY NEWS) - Small business owners know that a savvy way to boost sluggish income is to adopt new sales tactics. As it turns out, the sales aspect of the job is the most painful part for many business owners.

The trick is to figure out how to sell comfortably — and continuously.
Your Money talked to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/remote-backup-service-provider-discusses-how-to-sell-the-service/</link>
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		<title>Remote Backup Systems Joins Oracle PartnerNetwork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MEMPHIS, Tenn.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Remote Backup Systems Inc. (RBS), the originator of remote online backup technology, today announced that it has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork, ensuring RBS service providers and endusers of the company’s award-winning RBackup™ remote backup software will have the highest level of integration across the full spectrum of Oracle’s software portfolio.

The move gives RBS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/remote-backup-systems-joins-oracle-partnernetwork/</link>
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		<title>RBS Receives &#8220;Honorable Mention&#8221; Among Top Online Backup Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News Feed (Infostor) - The entry of heavyweights such as EMC and Symantec may spur increased interest in online backup and recovery.

By Michele Hope 
Impending hurricanes and wild fires are examples of external events that can drive organizations to move quickly to correct weaknesses in their backup-and-recovery methods. Looming deadlines-in the areas of compliance or software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/rbs-receives-honorable-mention-among-top-online-backup-software/</link>
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		<title>Maryland Passes Computer Services Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Blogs: Maryland lawmakers Nov. 19 approved a 6 percent sales tax on computer services, a move industry groups call harmful to business and service.

Eweek.com
By Sharon Linsenbach
November 19, 2007
The measure, among $1.3 billion in new taxes intended to close a $1.7 billion budget deficit next year, levies a 6 percent sales tax, beginning in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/maryland-passes-computer-services-tax/</link>
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		<title>Online Backup Company Announces New Partner Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remote Backup Systems, Inc - The online backup market is rapidly gaining strength as new players emerge and as the public’s acceptance of online data storage increases with it. Many new online backup entrepreneurs try to write their own software, incorrectly assuming that online backup software is simply file transfer software with a few bells [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/online-backup-company-announces-new-partner-programs/</link>
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		<title>White House ordered to back up e-mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REUTERS - A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the White House from destroying back-up copies of deleted e-mails.
The order by U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy came Monday as part of a lawsuit by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a private watchdog group, that claims the White House [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/white-house-ordered-to-back-up-e-mail/</link>
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		<title>From the Blogs: Business continuity for SMEs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business continuity is best thought of as the test of how your business would cope when things go wrong. It is as important for small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) as it is for multinationals.

Bob Tarzey, service director with a focus on SMEs at analyst firm Quocirca, says that SMEs that overlook business continuity planning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/from-the-blogs-business-continuity-for-smes/</link>
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		<title>Remote Backup Systems Announces Compatibility with VMware Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RBS has announced that it has successfully completed compatibility testing with its industry-defining RBackup Remote Backup Server and VMware. This is good news for VARs and MSPs who want to take advantage of the efficiency, uptime, and business continuity features of VMware with their online backup servers. The currently-shipping version of RBackup is compatible with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/remote-backup-systems-announces-compatibility-with-vmware-server/</link>
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		<title>From the Blogs: It turns out Mozy isn&#8217;t so hot after all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week a hard drive in my home file server died, taking hundreds of gigabytes of MP3s, movies, source code, and other things with it (including the uncompressed master copies of all my cinematic masterpieces). Fortunately, I had backed up the important stuff using Mozy. Unfortunately, Mozy&#8217;s restore functionality turns out to suck. Bigtime.

Mozy gives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/from-the-blogs-it-turns-out-mozy-isnt-so-hot-after-all/</link>
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		<title>Remote Backup Systems revamps website and pricing, adds new support options.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remote Backup Systems, the leader in providing Online Backup Software for VARs and MSPs, has reduced prices on most of its software packages by as much as half, making RBS the most affordable software in the marketplace.

&#8220;Our Service Providers requested this change,&#8221; explained Rob Cosgrove, CEO, &#8220;They want to be able to offer a higher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/remote-backup-systems-revamps-pricing-adds-new-support-options-hires-more-tech-support-people-changes-its-web-site-goes-on-the-offensive-against-competitors-misinformation-writes-very-long-head/</link>
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		<title>10 Things to Do When you Lose your Laptop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently went through an unhappy experience of losing a laptop. There is a lot of personal and company data on the laptop and and going through the exercise of trying to determine all the information risk comes the realization of how lax I’ve been in mixing personal and professional information on my different desktops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/10-things-to-do-when-you-lose-your-laptop/</link>
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		<title>Bigger Budgets Pave Way for Better Storage Options</title>
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As small and midsize businesses plan to spend more than ever on storage solutions to hold their growing volumes of data, we run down the options. An efficient, effective means of storage is vital to business continuity in the event of disaster. Whether disasters are on an upturn is debatable; the growing volume of data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/bigger-budgets-pave-way-for-better-storage-options/</link>
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		<title>RBackup Remote Backup Software puts the power of the oldest backup company in the world behind your commercial backup service.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business TechEdge reviews RBackup v9.4. [more]

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		<title>A New Storage Paradigm - Backup Lifecycle Management Brings A New Layer To Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remote Backup Systems&#8217; CEO Rob Cosgrove and others talk about data deduplication, Archiving, and Backup Lifecycle Management in this Processor Magazine article. [more]

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		<title>From the Blogs - WARNING: Mozy May Kill Your System’s Performance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little while back I installed Mozy, the much touted online backup service. I thought I had found the perfect automatic data backup system, and even gave it a favorable review earlier this year.Read the rest of this entry »

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		<title>Poll Shows Online Backup Increases Customer Loyalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent poll of Remote Backup Service Providers showed that Online Backup Services help keep customers loyal, and bring in new business.
The poll was conducted by Remote Backup Systems, the industry leader in the development and support of complete-solution online backup software for commercial Online Backup Services. The companies polled offer online backup as part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/poll-shows-online-backup-increases-customer-loyalty/</link>
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		<title>For Those Who Believe That Backup Does Archiving – NOT!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Publisher&#8217;s Note: RBackup Remote Backup does both Backup and Archiving using pDLM.  - Faced with limited budgets and the desire to simplify operations, some IT executives believe that if they have a reliable backup procedure, it will also fulfill their archiving needs. But with new organization standards for accessing data and with legal and regulatory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encrypt data stored off site, warns Louisiana agency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The loss of unencrypted storage media from an Iron Mountain Inc. vehicle last month renewed calls for IT managers to better protect data stored off site. The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance (LOFSA) said the unencrypted data lost from the vehicle of its contractor on Sept. 19 included the names, birth dates and Social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://remote-backup.com/kb/encrypt-data-stored-off-site-warns-louisiana-agency/</link>
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