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news headlines: 15 September 2004

‘Survivable’ emergency telephone system back-up network developed
New solution seamlessly merges conventional phone lines and the Internet to provide disaster resilience.

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Date: 15th September 2004 • Region: N.America Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms cont.
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European Commission consults on climate change
A chance to have your say on perhaps the greatest long term business continuity threat that there is.

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Date: 15th September 2004 • Region: UK/W.Europe Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Mazda to test grid-based core IT system
Disaster tolerance one of the decisive factors.

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Date: 15th September 2004 • Region: Asia Pacific Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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VERITAS delivers wide area disaster recovery capabilities for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
Customers can now deploy Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to consolidate physical servers across their IT environments.

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Date: 15th September 2004 • Region:N.America Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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European companies risk non-compliance in area of business process auditing
47 percent of European companies risk being non-compliant with new regulations because they are unable to audit their core business processes or manage the associated risks in a systematic way.

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Date: 15th September 2004 • Region: UK/W.Europe Type: Article •Topic: Op. risk
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Top headlines from the past four weeks:
• IT disaster recovery plan invocations increasing in frequency

• Software vulnerabilities are an increasing cause of downtime

• European Commission clears the acquisition of Synstar by HP

• GAO issues report on the US Postal Service’s response to anthrax incidents

• Limited software use by business continuity managers

• Examining data replication and data mirroring technologies as part of a disaster recovery plan

• Business continuity and medium size enterprises

• UK insurance companies may demand evidence of business continuity planning before offering terrorism cover

• Jamaica prepares for Ivan

• Gartner offers free disaster recovery advice for organisations affected by Hurricanes Charley and Frances

• Guidelines on business continuity planning issued by the State Bank of Pakistan

• New head of UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat appointed

• Update on HP purchase of Synstar

• Business continuity planning - how long should it take?

• It's time to stop the excuses

• Vulnerabilities of US power grid identified

• Where do I start in business continuity?

• US organisations gearing up for National Preparedness Month

• BCP testing under the spotlight

• SunGard invests in new Luxembourg recovery centre

• Hurricane Frances threatens East Coast US businesses

• A layered approach to IP SANs…

• 10 candidates for 2004 Business Continuity Institute board elections

• New modelling techniques could lead to better flood forecasting

• Putting the case for tape…

• The brand – estimating its vulnerability

• US Department of Health & Human Services issues national Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan

• 2004 Waters Rankings gives US market leadership position to IBM

• FSTC publishes detailed analysis of technology recovery in the financial services industry

• Isle of Man aims to become centre for disaster recovery services

• HP’s proposed acquisition of Synstar - more of the same?

• Financial institutions see reputational risk as the greatest threat

• Winternals Recovery Manager helps minimise the risks of deploying Windows XP Service Pack 2

• Achieving resilience – best practices in business continuity

• Surviving unplanned downtime…

• New version of RecoveryPAC Web to be launched in September

• US regional differences in business continuity planning identified

• Viewing the continuity development process with 20/20 vision

• UK businesses complacent about communications disaster planning

• The highs and lows of continuity software

• Colour co-ordinated…

• Recovery centre location is top concern for UK business continuity managers

• Northeast America blackout anniversary offers reminder of importance of emergency backup power




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