news headlines: 10th March 2006

Testing your contingency plans, successfully
What are the ingredients of a successful test? Allen Johnson discusses the issues involved and begins with cases drawn from real life of how to get it wrong…
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•Date: 10th March 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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Beware of stereotypes…
When developing an effective plan, input is needed from just about everyone. Be careful not to miss important contributions through stereotyping people.
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•Date: 10th March 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Plan development
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Future trends in data lifecycle management
Is cost-effective data lifecycle management just a dream? Geoff Hough attempts to answer this question.
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•Date: 10th March 2006 • Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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ICM to launch new business continuity centre in Scotland
New £14m business continuity centre and Scottish headquarters will be opened on 23rd March.
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•Date: 10th March 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Drought worsens in Southwest US and southern Plains
At the end of winter, moderate-to-extreme drought affected about 25 percent of the contiguous US: NOAA.
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•Date: 10th March 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Australian and New Zealand IT budgets on the rise: security and disaster recovery are major focal points
A Forrester survey shows that Australian and New Zealand organisations expect their IT budgets to rise by an average of 5 percent in 2006.
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•Date: 10th March 2006• Region: Australasia • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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UN launches central disaster relief fund to speed up emergency assistance
The United Nations has formally launched a $500-million fund – with over half that amount already pledged – to jump-start relief operations in future natural and man-made disasters and save thousands of lives that would otherwise be lost to delay under the current mechanism.
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•Date: 10th March 2006• Region: World • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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New Stratus entry-level fault-tolerant server offers 99.999 percent availability
The W Series 2400 system offers a fault-tolerant remote access controller - the Virtual Technician Module - that, in turn, connects to the fully fault-tolerant Stratus ActiveService network to help ensure exceptional reliability.
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•Date: 10th March 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Ontrack enhances French data recovery facility
• Terror blasts hit Turkey and Spain
• Drought causing New Zealand power supply fears
• ‘Are You Ready for the Big One? Planning in the Face of a Pandemic or Disaster’
• Unitrends extends continuous systems protection to exchange servers
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