news headlines: 24th April 2007

Harris survey examines current attitudes to disaster recovery, business continuity and information availability
Finds that IT executives place a higher priority on BC and IA than business executive counterparts.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Civil Contingencies Secretariat publishes CCA business continuity update
Bulletin gives an update on business continuity management activities related to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Public sector BC
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Seven reasons why Serial Attached SCSI will be the new enterprise storage standard
A white paper supplied by Infortrend Corporation.
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•Date: 24th April 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The rise of SSL VPNs
The growth of Secure Sockets Layer virtual private networks (SSL VPNs) has accelerated in the last 12 months. Ian Kilpatrick explains why this is happening…
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•Date: 24th April 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New Zealand government departments to increase business continuity spending
According to Statistics New Zealand.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: NZ •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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UK businesses warned to act as product recalls soar
Record number of product recalls in 2006; 2007 expected to see even more.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Retail BC
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Australian drought contingency statement
Joint Statement by the Prime Minister and the Premiers of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency plan
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UPDATED BlackBerry’s crown slips
Widespread outage hits BlackBerry’s reputation for crisis communications resiliency.
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•Date: 24th April 2007 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis comms
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• 2007 edition of the Edwards Disaster Recovery Directory now available
• Teneros partners with 24/7 Mail to deliver e-mail continuity to UK SMEs
• Disaster recovery planning podcasts
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - President declares major disaster for Maine
   - Mutual funds ignore climate change risks - Ceres
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