news headlines: 20th March 2006

Business continuity management : the nine deadly sins
Mike Thompson highlights areas that he believes bedevil many BC plans.
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•Date: 20th March 2006 • Region: Australia/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Business continuity and disaster recovery outsourcing issues
Lawrence Robert looks at the implications of outsourcing in general for BC managers and asks ‘Can business continuity be outsourced?’
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•Date: 20th March 2006 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Hundred-year storm hits northern Queensland
Category five Tropical Cyclone Larry the largest storm to make landfall in Queensland since the 1930s.
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•Date: 20th March 2006• Region: Australia • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Testing still the weak link in many IT continuity plans: HP survey
Although an encouraging 84 percent of respondents claim to have IT continuity strategies in place, only 29 percent perform tests at six-monthly intervals.
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•Date: 20th March 2006• Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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TISP disaster resilience guide available for public review
The Infrastructure Security Partnership ‘Guide for an Action Plan to Develop a Regional Disaster Resilience’ is available for public review before being published in final form later this spring.
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•Date: 20th March 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Managed services market in Europe forecast to triple in value over next five years
Companies are increasingly receptive to partial third-party management of infrastructure and assets.
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•Date: 20th March 2006• Region: UK/W.Europe • Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• FEMA begins to review 2005 hurricane disaster payments
• Australian Continuity Forum Conference
• Business continuity contract win for HP
• International SOS survey finds that the ability to track employee travel is central to avian ‘flu preparedness plans
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