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news headlines: 4th JUNE 2008

Succession management research highlights its vital role in business survival
Ten year research programme finds that enterprises lacking effective succession management were five times more likely to disappear than those that had established robust practices.
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Date: 4th June 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Updates made to ITIL certification
On 23 May the ITIL Qualification Board made its final decision on the naming of the new ITIL V3 qualifications.
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Date: 4th June 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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NextPhase adds business continuity services to portfolio
Hybrid wired/wireless connectivity solutions provide network diversity, redundancy, load balancing and failover capabilities.
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Date: 4th June 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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‘Risk assessment tools, techniques and data for the Civil Contingencies Act and Integrated Risk Management Planning’
Provides wide-ranging information on risk assessment for Local Resilience Forums.
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Date: 4th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector
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Akamai publishes inaugural ‘State of the Internet’ report
Quarterly report provides insight into key Internet statistics such as origin of attack traffic, network outages and broadband connectivity levels.
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Date: 4th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Smartphone risk to organisations highlighted
Many companies ‘leaving the back door wide open’.
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Date: 4th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Ceedo launches an application virtualization solution for the enterprise
• Zmanda teams with NetApp to deliver highly optimized backup solution for MySQL
• Writing a Business Continuity Plan workshop
• Rontal announces marketing agreement with T&M Protection Resources for North American market
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts

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AT&T 2008 Business Continuity Study

Telecity opens new Powergate London data centre

BCI aims for Asia chapter

New ISO standard helps firms address privacy risks

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Norwich University launches online Master of Science in Business Continuity Management degree course

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The top ten disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012

Exercise UUSIMAA 2008

Insider threats top of the agenda

Small business disaster planning resource now available in Spanish

Study identifies key success factors for IT governance, risk and compliance management

FEMA makes $27.2 million available for preparedness training initiatives

Are we training effectively?

40 percent of US small businesses not prepared for disasters

BCI ‘Masters Workshop’ to explore future directions for BCM

Red Cross Disaster Response Challenge

NOAA publishes hurricane season forecasts

Heatwave Plan for England updated

ICM to officially open London SouthWest Business Continuity Centre

Singapore taskforce to promote corporate resilience

RELDATA offers disaster recovery solution for Fibre Channel SAN

Energy and resources companies make progress on security but no room for complacency: Deloitte

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‘Preparing for Pandemic Influenza: Supplementary Guidance for Local Resilience Forum planners’

Define your day after: DHS urges small businesses

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FEMA and American Red Cross brief the private sector on the National Response Framework

Government and business group meets to discuss Australian business resilience

The Business Continuity Institute launches US Chapter

Business continuity case study: Glasgow airport

Confused and disjointed...

Regus launches new work-area recovery options

DHS awards critical infrastructure grants

Committee recommends 25 Year strategic ‘road-map’ for Scottish flood management planning

Belinda Wilson joins Business Continuity Journal peer review panel

Enterprise risk management for visionary organisations

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Are trusted systems a thing of the past?

SunGard to acquire Strohl Systems

Details of Singapore financial sector pandemic exercise published

Crisis communications case study

Experts meet to review influenza pandemic preparedness guidance

Survey looks at enterprise risk management practices in life insurance companies

Data Domain introduces new inline deduplication storage system

Nominations open for the 2nd Asia Business Continuity Awards

London Regional Resilience Flu Pandemic Response Plan updated

‘Taking a punch: Building a more resilient Australia’

US securities industry prepares for business continuity test

NATO opens new cyber defence centre of excellence

EMC introduces holistic disaster restart solution for two-site mainframe environments

Business Continuity Awards 2008 : the winners

VMware launches Site Recovery Manager

Following up Exercise Knot

New US report discusses changing nature of terror threat

2008 Hurricane Preparedness Week

Business Continuity Institute adds new certification level

Human resilience strategies: the reflective phase

SGX issues consultation paper on business continuity management framework

New study shows high threat of big California quake

UK remains under-prepared for flooding, warns EFRA Select Committee

Reform Institute applauds Congressional focuses on ‘Resilience’

Marathon launches the world’s first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization

Continuum Consultancy wins award

US business continuity salary and compensation report

UK entering a ‘flood-rich’ period

Banking Banana Skins 2008

BCM Institute sets out strategic goals

SunGard Availability Services agrees strategic partnership with VMware

Huge rise in UK product recalls

How to deploy BS 25999 : second edition

The Conference Board looks into use of business continuity, disaster recovery and related standards by US organizations

Scottish universities team up for business continuity

Strohl adds emergency notification feature to PLANet

Process safety in the major hazards industries

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US National Level Exercise 2-08

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2008 Multinational Risk Survey

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Exercise Phoenix

18th World Conference on Disaster Management

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SBA honors outstanding disaster recovery efforts

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The 2008 Global Information Security Workforce Study

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