news headlines: 31st January 2008

Business Continuity Journal Volume Two, Issue Four now available
Continuity Central’s quarterly peer-reviewed advanced level publication.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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The four myths of IT risk management
New Symantec research report discusses the four myths commonly associated with IT risk.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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‘The risk intelligent approach to outsourcing and offshoring’
Deloitte white paper identifies several trends that have increased outsourcing and offshoring risks.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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The Information technology Authority of Oman signs contract for new disaster recovery facility
Mideast Data Systems will design and construct the facility.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: M.East •Type: Article •Topic: BC marlets
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Xsigo development accelerates disaster recovery of virtualized systems
Xsigo announces Virtual I/O integration with VMware ESX Server 3.5.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: US/World•Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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VMware enhances Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution
Provides business continuity capabilities that until now were available only for mission critical server applications.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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ICM Business Continuity Services appoints new Service Director
John Mills joins ICM from Capgemini.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Indian Ocean tsunami: future impacts
The 2004 catastrophe was far from the worst possible in many Indian Ocean borderlands and warning systems are still lagging: researchers.
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•Date: 29th January 2008• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Sharp steps down from Continuity Forum
After three and a half years John Sharp is stepping down as policy and development director of the UK’s Continuity Forum to pursue other interests in the business continuity arena.
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•Date: 29th January 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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FERC approves new reliability standards for cyber security
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved eight new mandatory critical infrastructure protection reliability standards to protect the US’s bulk power system against potential disruptions from cyber security breaches.
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•Date: 29th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Power supply: South Africa government declares a national emergency
• Major disaster declared for Indiana
• Stratus Technologies takes hat trick of awards
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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