Going Green with Block Level, Global De-duplication

Near ubiquitous connectivity has expanded the digital universe at a major cost to the environment. Huge amounts of money are being invested in data centers and these server farms are driving up the demand for energy and other resources. Yet,…

Taking Human Error Out of Backup for Small Business

Let’s face it, no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes because it’s just human nature. This also holds true for data backup because no matter what processes you have in place, things will go wrong. This includes forgetting to run a…

Is Unlimited Online Storage Going the Way of the DODO Bird?

Those dreaming the dream of unlimited online storage forever and ever just got a rude wakeup call. A Gartner analyst says companies offering unlimited online storage are “already doing things like bandwidth throttling to help control the volume…

Five factors to Consider When Choosing an Offsite Cloud Backup Service Provider

You’re probably wondering what to look for if you’re a small or medium-sized business looking to make the switch to an offsite cloud backup model. To determine if cloud backup is the right solution for your small business, consider these…

Why Choose Offsite Cloud Backup Over Traditional Tape Backup?

For 20 plus years, many businesses have been backing up their data to tape. Tape backup was the most efficient method of backup of its time and stayed this way until fairly recently. As time progressed, it became apparent that tape backups were…

Why is Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) So Important to Backup?

As time progresses, more and more backup applications (including ROBOBAK) are becoming Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) aware. VSS is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows a backup application to safely backup locked and open files. VSS works…

Is Your Data REALLY Protected?

Very few people actually realize how much data they are storing on their local computers. What would happen if your computer crashed or got a virus and all your data was lost? Would you miss it? Many of us never think to backup our data until…

Happy holidays from the ROBOBAK Team

As we celebrate the ending of 2010, we would like to embrace the opportunity of wishing all of our partners a safe and joyous holiday season and a healthy and prosperous New Year! This past year has been a very successful and exciting year for…

Moving to the Cloud

If you didn’t believe all the noise about cloud computing in the enterprise before, perhaps the latest news will help you change your thinking. A new survey from Morgan Stanley reveals that 70% of CIOs questioned plan to move some, or all,…

A Statement on Client Side, Software Based Deduplication Technology

Thanks to the relatively recent development of Deduplication technologies, US DataVault is not only more efficient for our Clients, but more profitable as well. For the newcomer, Deduplication eliminates redundant backup and archive data at…

Protecting What is Near and Dear to my Wife, Her Pictures.

If there is one thing that my wife is, it’s a picture fanatic. She literally takes hundreds of pictures a month! If you don’t believe me, ask my family, friends, and Facebook contacts. My job of course is to keep these pictures safe! This…

The Intimate Relationship of Data Deduplication and Encryption

Most people can easily associate compression and deduplication in their mind, after all they have 2 common goals: 1.To reduce bandwidth going from the client to the backup server 2. To reduce storage space once the data resides on the backup…