news headlines: 2nd April 2008

Crisis management lessons from Terminal 5
The opening of Heathrow airport’s latest terminal should have been a flag-waving event, however it turned into a public relations and customer service disaster. Charlie Maclean-Bristol draws some lessons from the chaos.
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•Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Is business continuity certification right for your organization?
This white paper analyzes the business case for pursuing business continuity certification, including what it takes to complete the certification process and how best to prepare.
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•Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Hardware failure remains highest cause of UK business continuity invocations
According to SunGard Availability Services.
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•Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Risk 2018: Planning for an unpredictable decade
A new report from BT Global Services looks ahead at how the risks facing businesses may change over the next ten years.
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•Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Data center automation to become increasingly significant over next two years: survey
Business continuity a key driver behind automation uptake.
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•Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Software tackles production line machine ‘cyclic jitters’
Will help enhance business continuity in a manufacturing environment.
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•Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Manufacturing
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The impact of the consumerization of IT on IT security management
Alexei Lesnykh highlights new threats and solutions.
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•Date: 1st April 2008• Region World •Type: Article •Topic: IT Continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Double-Take Software to receive Investor in Customers award
• ‘Real Plans for Real People: Satisfying the Human Concerns of Business Continuity’
• Protegrity awarded patent on database key rotation method: helps achieve
zero downtime
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Drought hits Northern China, worst in decades
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