news headlines: 26th April 2006

Data centre development: what makes a perfect raised floor?
Barry Elliott , C.Eng., provides a technical overview of this important aspect of data centre design.
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•Date: 26th April 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Why reputation is a major factor in business continuity and crisis management
Reputation risk is a core aspect of business continuity and crisis management, says Chris Woodcock.
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•Date: 26th April 2006 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Take the ‘compliance self-diagnosis test’…
AXS-One offers ten challenging questions to help assess your organisation’s compliance readiness.
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•Date: 26th April 2006 • Region: UK/W.Europe • Type: Article •Topic: Op. risk
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FRC report critical of preparedness levels in eight hurricane prone US states
Lessons from 2005’s deadly storms still unlearned, Federal interoperability funds impossible to track due to lack of transparency and jurisdictional infighting…
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•Date: 26th April 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Security investments starting to show return on investment for UK companies
The financial impact of security incidents affecting large businesses has fallen by 50 percent over the last two years: survey.
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•Date: 26th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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3n launches Instacom 4.0, featuring enhanced GIS-enabled notification tools
GIS capabilities enable geographic boundaries to be imposed on crisis communications messages.
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•Date: 26th April 2006• Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis comms
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Many North American life insurers still in planning stage for ‘flu pandemic preparations
North American life insurance companies lag behind their international counterparts in their preparation for a possible avian influenza pandemic, according to a survey conducted during the first two weeks of April 2006.
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•Date: 26th April 2006• Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: US Pandemic planning
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Telstra Europe successfully completes ‘black building’ power failure simulation test
Telstra Europe switches off London Docklands hosting centre and resilient business continuity provisions ensure that customers experience no service downtime.
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•Date: 26th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: Testing & exercising
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Mario Draghi to succeed Roger Ferguson as chairman of the Financial Stability Forum
• NFPA supports Paulison for FEMA Director
• IXEurope receives the Queens Award for Enterprise
• Peak 10 to expand Tampa data center
• Resilience Corp. closes $10 million round of preferred equity funding
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