news headlines: 4th April 2008

A business continuity management primer
Helmut Mair offers advice to those faced with developing their first business continuity plan.
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•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: Australia/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC plan dev.
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UK disaster recovery planning activities examined
72 percent of all UK businesses have a disaster recovery plan in place, up from 58 percent two years ago; but testing is still a weak area.
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•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee reviews FEMA disaster readiness
Agency has made moderate improvements but is not yet ready for a catastrophe.
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•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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RMS calls for UK Government to improve inadequate flood defence information
Lack of information is seriously hampering attempts to quantify flood risk.
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•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Virtualization will be the highest-impact trend in IT infrastructure and operations over the next few years: Gartner
Special report examines how virtualization is set to rewrite the rules of IT management, deployment, planning and purchasing.
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•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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BSI to run BS 25999 Part 2 events throughout Europe
Krakow : 18 April 2008, Amsterdam : 25 April 2008, Madrid : 7 May 2008, Moscow : 12 May 2008, Leuven : 16 May 2008, Nunspeet : 21 May 2008, Warsaw: 11 June 2008.
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•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• ‘Implementing Disaster Recovery Strategies and Technologies’
• Automata lowers fees for International Business Continuity Summer School and scheduled courses to help with ‘credit crunch’
• Online ITIL examinations
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Bird flu's spread around the globe
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