news headlines: 4th April 2007

Gartner warns about the risks of rushing into virtualization
Simply applying the technologies and best practices for securing physical servers won’t provide sufficient protections for virtual machines.
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•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Colorado State University updates 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season forecast
A very active hurricane season is in store.
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•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR General
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Intellect announces the launch of the Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Council
RISC will ‘provide a single industry voice and channel of communication for government on strategic issues affecting national security and resilience’.
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•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Companies still in the dark about their overall health
Reputation risk is the most important non-financial performance measure, but company monitoring of the issue is inadequate: Deloitte survey.
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•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Rapid response is key to understanding 1918 ‘flu pandemic successes
Cities where public health officials imposed multiple social containment measures within a few days after the first local cases were recorded cut peak weekly death rates by up to half compared with cities that waited just a few weeks to respond.
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•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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IBM opens new Autonomic Computing Technology Center in India
To address'overwhelming demand' for technology and systems that are self-managing.
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•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: Asia •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Automata to run Business Continuity Masterclass in Hong Kong
7th - 9th May.
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•Date: 4th April 2007 • Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Incident management Podcast released by CERT
• MMTAT announces development of an innovative mobile power and communications solution for disaster recovery and business interruptions
• ‘Resiliency Redefined’ Continuity Insights Management Conference
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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