news headlines: 6th November 2003

Schlumberger expands its London recovery facility
15 percent increase results in the largest recovery facility in Europe.
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•Date: 6th November 2003 •Region: Worldwide •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Corporate Emergency Access System pilot programme underway in New York city
Scheme will allow employees access to company premises despite emergency exclusion zones.
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•Date: 6th November 2003 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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August blackout results in new attitudes to business continuity
Having had their ‘fingers burnt’, many companies affected by the east coast blackout intend to spend more on risk management, BC and DR.
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•Date: 6th November 2003 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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Business continuity priorities highlighted
The majority of US CIO’s don’t see business continuity and disaster recovery as high priorities.
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•Date: 6th November 2003 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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Private firms’ security spending on the increase
Survey also finds that 83 percent of private US companies conducted risk assessments in the past year.
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•Date: 6th November 2003 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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VERITAS providing backup using utility computing model
CommandCentral combines backup software with a new management portal to deliver backup, recovery and storage as a service.
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•Date: 6th November 2003 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Storactive releases LiveServ for Exchange
Offers ‘continuous backup and zero-loss recovery for business critical e-mail servers.’
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•Date: 6th November 2003 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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