EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

Webcentral is moving into the online PC backup space with an offering that is claimed to be provided on more flexible terms than Telstra's T-suite.

Although cagey on which vendor is providing the whitelabel service to them (Telstra resells Iron Mountain), Webcentral is offering among other things month-to-month contracts - which should prove attractive to its target market of small business.

Most small users with an ADSL connection should be able to take advantage of the service - although those with "larger data sets" are advised to investigate symmetrical connections for the better uplink...

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | April 28, 2009

Melbourne IT-owned hosting business WebCentral is taking on Telstra T-Suite with a new cloud-based backup service for small business customers.

By Daniel Robinson | April 28, 2009

Microsoft is planning a new virtualisation tool to provide better application compatibility for businesses migrating from Windows XP to the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system.

By Rosalie Marshall | April 28, 2009

The UK's MI6 had to abandon a multimillion pound covert anti-drugs operation after it lost a memory stick containing the project's top secret information.

By Phil Muncaster | April 28, 2009

Three-quarters of large firms and government departments are stripping out IT cost, with a further 10 per cent planning to do so in the future, Deloitte research shows.

By Staff Writers | April 28, 2009

Four men jailed for breaching copyright in connection with Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest free file-sharing websites, should be given a new trial because the judge was biased, a court heard on Monday.

By David Neal | April 28, 2009

The first netbook computer running Google's Android operating system will be released this winter.

By Staff Writers | April 28, 2009

Facebook regularly attracts more than 200 million people to its website, but the company is now looking for ways to permeate the lives of its users without the need to check-in to the Facebook site.

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