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news headlines: 15th June 2007

Duplicating the success of data deduplication
How local instance networking overcomes disaster recovery difficulties associated with single instance storage.
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Date: 15th June 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The ‘consumerization’ of IT is a major threat to enterprise security: Gartner
Report examines how consumerization will impact enterprises during the next three years.
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Date: 15th June 2007 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Phoenix to develop new recovery centre in Farnborough
100,000 sq ft facility will provide up to 1,450 office and dealing room recovery positions.
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Date: 15th June 2007 • Region: UK Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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New International Health Regulations come into force
Will help to make the world more secure from threats to global health, such as pandemic ‘flu.
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Date: 15th June 2007 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Additional Federal assistance made available to states impacted by the 2005 hurricane season
Increase in federal assistance is being made available to Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama to cover costs in connection with hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, Dennis and Rita.
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Date: 15th June 2007 • Region: US Type: Article •Topic: Disaster recovery
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Are Solid Oxide Fuel Cells the future for power protection?
Businesses operating in Pakistan are regularly impacted by power outages and low quality supplies. In a statement Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz outlined measures being taken to address this issue.
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Date: 15th June 2007 • Region: World Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Pakistan Prime Minister promises an end to power shortages
Businesses operating in Pakistan are regularly impacted by power outages and low quality supplies. In a statement Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz outlined measures being taken to address this issue.
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Date: 15th June 2007 • Region: Asia Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Daily Telegraph business continuity supplement
• OSHA implements National Emphasis Program to reduce hazardous chemical risks in the petrochemical industry
• Office Depot launches hurricane preparedness contest for small businesses in South Florida

• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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The future of work area recovery…
Is the move towards non-office based working having an impact on the need for work area recovery space? This survey seeks to find out…
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

September will be Fourth Annual US National Preparedness Month

AT&T survey sees high take-up of business continuity amongst London businesses

Report published on Cumpston 06

Fuel cells as a business continuity measure

Is IT downtime out of control?

WHO moves on plans for H5N1 influenza global vaccine stockpile

Contingency planning for potential UK postal strike

Retrofitting buildings to reduce chemical and biological hazard risks

‘UK Financial Sector Business Continuity Quarterly Summary’ published

New South Wales picks up the pieces after storms and flooding

Risk managers support insurer willingness-to-pay index

The rising tide: climate change and business continuity

Business continuity – is India prepared?

Northeastern Pennsylvania to provide back-up location for Wall Street firms

AIRMIC urges insurers and brokers underwriters to take more notice of clients’ business continuity activities

Senate Committee to review federal government’s telework policy

Blackberry business continuity paper published

SBA briefs Congress on new disaster recovery plan

Tropical Cyclone Gonu

ICM acquisition latest

Queensland to get new Chemical Incident Environmental Advisory Service

Survey shows uncontrolled network access ‘causing CTO's sleepless nights’

Why virtual machines need virtual storage

Making business continuity easier to understand

Good risk management is an essential criterion of market-leading businesses

The Automata International Business Continuity Summer School

BSI asks for comments on BS 25999 part two

‘The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why’

Some considerations for choosing a consultant

Maturation of business continuity practice in the Intel supply chain

Ernst & Young survey explores fraud risk management

FEMA issues basic disaster recovery planning advice

Scientists discover method to better forecast damaging solar radiation storms

How can businesses prepare for biological warfare threats?

2007 AT&T Business Continuity Study

Data virtualisation: the basis of file area networking

IT security – the challenges and opportunities of cultural diversity and dispersed teams

Vast majority of UK businesses are unprepared for an influenza pandemic

Asking the right question: penetration testing vs. vulnerability analysis tools, which is best?

MarquisNet opens new California facility

Banana Skins 2007

US financial sector pandemic response capabilities exercise scheduled

ICM acquisition progressing

CBRN research taking place in central London

Double-Take enhanced

Slow decision-making causing problems in UK business continuity planning processes

US survey shows many small businesses are complacent when it comes to disaster preparedness

West Yorkshire gets a new workplace recovery centre

NOAA predicts above normal 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Hurricane planning updates

Market-wide Exercise follow-up seminar

Findings from Chicago’s September 2006 CBD evacuation exercise published

All3Media Group invests in innovative BCM and crisis management tool

EVault awarded patent for online backup and recovery technology

Business continuity deadline looms for UK law firms

DHS completes risk management framework for critical infrastructure protection

EMC unveils new backup and recovery capabilities at EMC World

Strong growth at Phoenix IT Group

Repeat of Great Mississippi Flood could cost up to $160 billion

National Continuity Implementation Plan: great idea but compromising timescales?

Continuous data protection – hype versus reality

An ABC of message maps

Hurricane planning updates

Lloyd’s panellists discuss businesses' role in mitigating terrorism risks

HP launches security solution to help energy companies reduce risks

Companies are securing the perimeter but failing to protect data from insiders

Yankee Group report predicts growing demand for fault tolerant servers

myCOOP enhancement enables easier migration from legacy systems

GemaTech adds outbound secure voice recording to combined BCMLITE and SVRLITE product

US gets a National Continuity Coordinator

Signs that business continuity is becoming mainstream in the UK

'Improving the flood performance of new buildings: Flood resilient construction'

Business continuity in Oman and UAE explored

IT security improving within UK organisations

Pandemic planning updates

Researchers use simulation to study post-traumatic stress disorder

Surge of new ISM threats in April

Message maps: blueprints for pandemic preparedness

Business Continuity Awards winners

Emerging risks impeding business development: Lloyd’s

FBI issues wireless security warning

Green light for Phoenix ICM bid

Long term business risks of climate change need to be faced, not ignored

Marsh pushes the ‘upside’ of effective risk management

Downtime costs European businesses £300k per hour on average

IBM unveils plan to combat data center energy crisis

VMware Workstation 6 now available

Office-Shadow signs partnership agreement with SIFMA

BCI Australia becomes ‘The Business Continuity Institute Incorporated’

CERT publishes details of its resiliency engineering research

MBO team’s offer for ICM lapses

US unprepared for wide-area ‘mega-catastrophes’

New Zealand companies failing to appreciate the importance of reputation risk

‘Crisis Communications: A Primer for Teams’

Automated, all-hazard risk assessment tool launched

Evacuation and shelter planning

Evacuate or shelter-in-place?

Business continuity in the UK food and drink industry

CDC issues interim guidance for the use of facemasks and respirators in public settings during an influenza pandemic

Taking data risk management a step further…

Reserve Bank of Australia to get new business continuity solution

Concern expressed over security risks in MiFID compliance

Microsoft on security management…

SunGard launches BS25999 self assessment tool

EC considers new data protection regulations

Pandemic planning for landlords

New Zealand government consults on power resilience

NEHRP earthquake hazards meeting

'Adapting to Changing Risk Environments: Operational Resilience'

DHS puts $24 million in the pot for security projects in nonprofit organizations

Power disruption is fastest growing downtime threat to UK organisations

New Fibre Channel 4, 2 and 1Gbps transponders boost distance for business continuity storage solutions

Why real-time asset management is more than just a ‘good idea’ for business continuity

Survey looks at EMEA data-related business continuity and disaster recovery practices




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