Business continuity news 23rd March 2007

news headlines: 23rd March 2007

New products on show at Business Continuity Expo 2007
If you’re planning a visit to the BC Expo on 28-29 March what new products and services can you expect to find on show?
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•Date: 23rd March 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Business continuity: a different perspective
Business continuity needs to be focussed on the strategic goals of the organization if senior management support is to be forthcoming, says John Stagl.
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•Date: 23rd March 2007• Region: US•Type: Article •Topic: BC: selling to the board
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Preparing for pandemic influenza: business continuity planning
A new white paper by Future Health Solutions provides a general overview of the topic of business continuity planning for the impacts of a pandemic.
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•Date: 23rd March 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic plannning
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The next great earthquake…
The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and resulting tsunami is causing a rethink about earthquake risk.
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•Date: 23rd March 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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New report finds severe pandemic flu could lead to major US recession
States with high levels of tourism and entertainment could be the hardest hit.
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•Date: 23rd March 2007 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning US
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UK local authorities honoured for emergency planning excellence
Beacon Awards given to authorities with robust risk assessment and business continuity processes in place.
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•Date: 23rd March 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector
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Economist Intelligence Unit looks into IT security priorities
Having a converged network gives companies a better defence against IT security breaches, according to majority of survey respondents.
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•Date: 23rd March 2007 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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• Mastering business continuity practices
• Daily Telegraph to publish business continuity supplement
• IXEurope announces the inauguration of its new IXDatacentre in Saint-Denis, Paris
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications
- FEMA daily SITREP
- World weather impacts
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Top headlines from the past few weeks:

• IBM and Cisco partnership provides new crisis response solutions

• NDR adds new mobile unit to its mobile recovery fleet

• Many European businesses are not planning for future data centre power requirements

• ‘Critical Infrastructure: Challenges Remain in Protecting Key Sectors’

• Study details nuclear attack scenario

• Neverfail announces enhanced server reliability product

• Chartered Management Institute publishes its annual survey of UK business continuity practices

• UK Department of Health releases draft ‘National framework for responding to an influenza pandemic’

• Planning for NPI business continuity

• If a pandemic hits, who will turn up?

• IBM data retention solution wins Data Protection Summit ‘Best of Show’ award

• ICM acquisition update

• Virtual benefits

• Pandemic planning – a win for everyone

• ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel makes recommendations aimed at bolstering US preparedness

• Phoenix sets out details of potential bid for ICM

• AIRMIC calls for more data on business insurers willingness to pay

• GAO reports into potential impact of a terrorist attack on a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas

• BSI invites comments on PAS 1188

• Business Continuity Awareness Week: Australia

• BCI Benchmark

• Disaster Recovery Information Exchange calls for Toronto-wide exercise

• VaultStor launches highly resilient ‘Disaster Recovery Vault’

• Incident or crisis? Why the debate?

• New edition of NFPA 1600 published

• Global Switch calls for increased scrutiny of IT resilience by company boards

• NIST guide helps with facilities risk assessment

• FEMA’s 2008 budget request

• 2ndWave Software acquires Amcom

• Building service level management into business continuity planning

• Preventing critical data loss

• Bank of America to introduce new disaster recovery purchasing card

• Marsh and Reed conducting business continuity benchmark survey

• Swiss Re study finds below-average catastrophe losses in 2006

• SunGard constructs three new UK workplace recovery centres

• ‘Software as a service’ will have business continuity implications

• Clinical studies provide hope for a pre-pandemic influenza vaccine

• Investment Dealers Association of Canada gives pandemic planning advice

• Asempra granted IT continuity patent

• New evidence that global warming fuels stronger Atlantic hurricanes

• Profits leap at ICM

• Irish businesses get pandemic planning guidance

• IDC predicts that the data protection and recovery management market will more than triple by 2011

• Oil companies told to address risks holistically

• Katrina disaster had its roots in history, politics and engineering

• A permanent solution to US terrorism risk insurance is a matter of national economic security: Willis

• Assessing your legal vulnerabilities

• Business Continuity Journal Volume Two Issue One

• Detailed report into business continuity practices in the UK food and drink sector published

• Economist Intelligence Unit survey highlights the extreme criticality of IT systems

• Bipartisan bill, Improving America’s Security Act of 2007, debated in US Senate

• Senator Kerry calls for reviews of US disaster recovery contracting practices

• Enhancing the resilience of telecommunications

• Barclays survey reviews SME threats

• Signs of the return of La Niña may indicate an active Atlantic hurricane season

• IAEM forms new European regional organisation

• FarStone launches new disk-imaging recovery solution for system builders and integrators

• Virtualization-based IT continuity services announced by SunGard Availability Services

• Survey finds encouraging news on UK business continuity take-up

• FBI warns of ‘vishing’ threat

• Double-Take Software launches Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure

• 2006 was the least costly year of the last two decades in terms of natural disasters

• No SIA industry-wide business continuity test in 2007

• UK NHS to coordinate National Workshop on Pandemic Influenza

• HP launches data backup and recovery aimed at small and medium-size businesses

• RMS releases first commercially available influenza pandemic probabilistic risk model

• SunGard publishes 2006 results

• The 80 percent myth…

• Business continuity standards survey

• Emergency procedures – flowcharts

• Business continuity issues for the UK financial sector 2007

• ‘Emerging Governance Practices in Enterprise Risk Management’

• New US legislation seeks to establish a voluntary certification program for private sector preparedness

• 'Flu pandemic could result in a bandwidth-choking surge in online traffic - telework plans at risk: Computerworld

• UK financial sector authorities publish business continuity activity report

• A third of UK medium-sized companies have no website disaster recovery plans

• ‘Business continuity and risk management the world is changing, are you prepared?’

• AT&T survey looks at business continuity plans of Los Angeles companies

• World's first zinc air fuel cell powered indoor generator demonstrated at Fuel Cell Expo 2007

• Business Continuity Institute publishes Good Practice Guidelines 2007

• DataMonitor research finds financial sector business continuity divide

• SCS launches mobile business continuity facility for Singapore

• Security, storage and disaster recovery are top priorities for IT managed services customers: CompTIA

• The business continuity team as a profit center

• Willis Research Network uses Japanese supercomputer to help predict typhoons, hurricanes and climate change

• Senate Committee questions DHS budget

• IBM launches drive-based tape encryption solution for midsized businesses

• Doing Business in South Asia 2007

• FEMA to get a National Advisory Council

• Resources and advice for managing IT issues related to Daylight Savings Time changes

• Business Continuity Awards 2007

• Deadline looming for BC Management's 6th Annual business continuity compensation/salary survey

• Business and Supply Chain Continuity

• Researchers invent new system to control and quarantine worms attacking computer networks

• Limitations in Australia and New Zealand data centres restricting mission critical market

• Continuous availability computing in a 24x7 world

• Avian ‘flu – Marsh publishes insurance and risk update

• UK businesses urged to be wary of letter bomb threat

• GAO drops two areas and adds three to 2007 high risk list

• Preparing your call centre for a ‘flu pandemic

• 18th Annual Top Technology Initiatives survey results

• British Insurance Brokers’ Association launches business continuity campaign

• Soaring data volumes put pressure on IT infrastructure

• MIT develops measures to predict performance of complex systems

• Public comment period initiated for the US National Incident Management System

• European Commission ‘takes first step towards improving critical infrastructure protection’

• Creating shareholder value through business continuity management

• Incident Command Systems and business continuity

• Chavez deadline highlights the importance of considering political risks within the context of business continuity

• UK government launches Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure

• Irish backup survey finds ‘shocking practices’

• Queensland government issues warning about cyclone threat

• GSA opens contracts to state and local governments for disaster recovery

• HP sees strong growth in Mission Critical Partnership service

• MessageOne reports 100 percent-plus revenue growth

• Blue chips asked to disclose climate change risks

• FSA publishes Financial Risk Outlook 2007

• Gartner warns of potential global business continuity implications of US changes to Daylight Saving Time dates

• European blackout of November 2006: important lessons to be drawn

• False confidence in IT security exposes business to attack

• US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to step up disaster preparedness scrutiny

• Cyber war threats examined

• UK fraud cases reach record levels

• SPRING Singapore & IPOS launch new intellectual property management programme for SMEs

• GridWeek 2007

• TeleContinuity given the '2007 North American Telecom Services Technology Innovation of the Year Award'

• Communicating complex risks

• Evolution rather than revolution…

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