Four data center megatrends for the decade of the teens
Four megatrends are emerging that are reshaping data centers as a whole and are changing how hardware and software are being delivered to them.
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•Date: 31st May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Data centers / centres
Tips for choosing disaster recovery technologies for your organization
When organizations are assessing IT requirements for business continuity purposes, it is important that they understand the true deliverability of various solutions on the market.
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•Date: 31st May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Forrester publishes report into business continuity management software
Says “You can no longer manage a complex BCM program with simple Office tools.”
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•Date: 31st May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: BC software
After Japan 9.0: Are there gaps in your continuity plans?
PwC has published a paper which seeks to capture some of the business continuity lessons from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan recently.
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•Date: 27th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
One to watch: haemolytic uraemic syndrome
European organizations are advised to monitor a disease outbreak in Germany which has potential business continuity implications.
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•Date: 27th May 2011 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
eBRP expands global support network
Provides customers with 24/7 support across all time zones.
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•Date: 27th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: BC companies
Business Continuity Awards 2011: the winners
The 2011 CIR Business Continuity Awards have been presented at a dinner at London’s Hilton Park Lane hotel.
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•Date: 26th May 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Disaster recovery needs helping drive European data centre expansion
Survey reveals strong demand for new data centre space.
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•Date: 26th May 2011 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: Data centres /centers
Cloud: top challenges remain unchanged since its emergence
CIOs believe the cloud has been over-hyped: survey.
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•Date: 26th May 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Cisco highights IPv6 transition resources
New offerings address findings from a new study that reveal concerns about the security, deployment and maintenance of IPv6.
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•Date: 26th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Stephenson Resilience launches new version of ‘Business Resilience Intelligence Tool’
Web-based tool helps organizations measure and compare their resilience.
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•Date: 26th May 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Business continuity software
Remit of European nuclear stress tests highlighted
Tests to start by 1st June at the latest.
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•Date: 26th May 2011 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: Business continuity testing
Downtime in focus
The results of a survey into downtime issues and impacts; average business has 14 hours of downtime per year.
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•Date: 25th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Cloud computing risks explored
Protiviti Inc., has warned organizations to have a clear understanding of the risks associated with the implementation of cloud computing, as the number of UK organizations adopting cloud-based solutions steadily rises.
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•Date: 25th May 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Organizations worldwide not keeping up with new security threats
73 percent of network devices analysed carry at least one known security vulnerability.
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•Date: 25th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
NOAA publishes 2011 hurricane season forecasts
Above-normal Atlantic season; below normal Eastern and Central Pacific seasons.
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•Date: 20th May 2011 • Region: US/Various •Type: Article • Topic: DR general
‘A Practical Approach to Business Impact Analysis’
A new book is available from the BSI.
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•Date: 20th May 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC plan development
Best practices to reduce risk in cloud contracts
A procurement checklist developed by Gartner.
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•Date: 20th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
SunGard Availability Services expands Livingston Recovery Centre
SunGard has increased the volume of workplace recovery space it can offer to organizations within Scotland.
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•Date: 20th May 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: Recovery facilities
National Risk Management preparedness: guidelines for critical information infrastructure governance
‘ENISA ad hoc Working Group on National Risk Management Preparedness: Consolidated Report.’
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•Date: 20th May 2011 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
The changing state of workforce availability
SunGard Availability Services’ Keith Tilley gives his perspective.
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•Date: 19th May 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: Recovery facilities
Intellectual property risks being under-estimated by many organizations
Failure to provide adequate protection for IP has the potential to threaten an organization’s survival.
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•Date: 19th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Enterprise risk management
New approach to UK flood protection could leave critical infrastructure vulnerable
Warning issued by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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•Date: 19th May 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
Vision Solutions launches new resilience capabilities for virtualized environments and Microsoft Exchange 2010
New versions of Double-Take Availability, Double-Take RecoverNow and Double-Take Move.
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•Date: 19th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Disaster-related economic losses are increasing across all regions
According to new United Nations Report.
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•Date: 19th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning
SunGard to get new chief executive officer
SunGard has announced that Russell Fradin will succeed Cristóbal Conde as SunGard’s chief executive officer on May 31, 2011.
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•Date: 19th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC companies
Using wikis for business continuity training
One of the biggest challenges for a business continuity manager is to train a large group of people to an appropriate level, with limited resources. Michelle Lang explains how wikis can help.
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•Date: 18th May 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
‘Corporate Governance and Business Preparedness’: Conference Board research
The Conference Board has published the results of three surveys which looked at how involved company boards are in business continuity management.
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•Date: 17th May 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics
Three UK business organizations collaborate on ‘Developing Resilience’ guide
Joint document prepared by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Business in the Community and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.
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•Date: 17th May 2011 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
NIST publishes Draft Guide to Cloud Computing
The cloud computing research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is requesting public comments on a draft of a new guide to cloud computing.
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•Date: 17th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Marsh highlights supply chain risk management best practices
‘Risk Spotlight: Managing Supply Chain Resiliency in an Increasingly Risky World.’
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•Date: 17th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Operational risk
Notification system tips
MIR3 has provided a checklist for ensuring that business continuity related notification systems are optimized.
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•Date: 13th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications
Business continuity salaries and payments in US and Canada
Results from BC Management’s latest BCM Compensation survey.
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•Date: 13th May 2011 • Region: North America •Type: Article • Topic: BC statistics
UK enterprises identify email management as primary information management pain point
This inability to gain control over enterprise email at a time when information risk is escalating, will have costly repercussions to businesses in the long term.
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•Date: 13th May 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
American Red Cross launches ‘Ready Rating’ to help prepare businesses and organizations for emergencies
The American Red Cross has launched a newly designed web-based service, Ready Rating, to help businesses and other organizations better prepare for emergencies
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•Date: 13th May 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
‘Distributed users’ a bigger challenge than cloud for application performance management
Survey reveals that resources allocated to address the growing risks of distributed users are inadequate.
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•Date: 13th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Emerging business continuity threats: acid mine drainage
ContinuitySA’s Lynn Jackson provides an update about the issue of acid mine drainage (AMD) and its business continuity implications.
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•Date: 12th May 2011 • Region: Africa/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
Many organizations face future disruption to mission-critical systems due to failure to prepare for IPv6
Many companies not ready for IPv6: Ipswitch poll. The time to act is now!
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•Date: 12th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Survey reveals significant potential for adoption of industry best practice for advanced enterprise notifications
Reliance on ‘fire-and-forget’ alerting leaving companies with higher risk of business interruption.
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•Date: 12th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ICT continuity
Ongoing Operations launches New Virginia recovery center
Middletown disaster recovery center is located approximately 80 miles west of Washington, DC and will help provide more options for businesses in the region.
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•Date: 12th May 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: Recovery facilities
Details of the PLAN US emergency notification system announced
Although aimed at individuals, PLAN will be a useful tool for business continuity managers.
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•Date: 11th May 2011 • Region: US •Type: Article • Topic: Crisis communications
IAEM invites entries for Awards Competition
Includes various business continuity related categories. Entry deadline is Tuesday, June 21st.
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•Date: 11th May 2011 • Region: US/World •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
As risks from disasters rise, UN chief calls for better preparedness
“The world’s vulnerability to disaster risks is growing faster than our ability to increase resilience,” Ban Ki-moon.
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•Date: 11th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning
ISO 22301 update
The ISO 22301 business continuity standard has been voted through by the TC 223 committee and now enters the final approval process.
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•Date: 10th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: BC standards
3rd Annual BANG Award winners
BANG, the London-based business continuity networking group, has announced the winners of the 3rd Annual BANG Awards, the ‘alternative’ awards in the UK's business continuity industry.
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•Date: 10th May 2011 • Region: UK •Type: Article • Topic: BC general
The Third Session of The Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction
From 10th to 13th May 2011 disaster management experts meeting in Geneva will explore various disaster risk reduction challenges.
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•Date: 10th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Emergency planning
Cyber-attacks, Black Swans and business continuity management
Don’t plan for specific incidents: instead businesses need to have the right capabilities, which means training people in appropriate crisis skills. By Jim Preen.
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•Date: 6th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: ISM
Unexpected storage challenges in cloud computing environments
If you are starting to look at building your own/private cloud, there are a few things you should know up front about storage as these issues will affect your planning. Eric Burgener explains.
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•Date: 6th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Strategic risk management: an emerging discipline
‘RIMS has attempted to define what is meant by ‘strategic risk management’ (SRM).
New report looks at Internet resilience
‘Inter‐X: Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem’ looks at current and future resiliency risks and possible solutions.
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•Date: 5th May 2011 • Region: Europe / UK •Type: Article • Topic: Critical infrastructure protection
IRM launches consultation on risk appetiteThe Institute of Risk Management has released a consultation paper which aims to develop guidance for organizations on the subject of risk appetite.
Five considerations when evaluating cloud computing architectures
Advice published by SunGard Availability Services.
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•Date: 5th May 2011 • Region: US / World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
New DMTF work group to focus on addressing security concerns for cloud environments
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has announced that it has begun work on a set of specifications to specifically address a cloud provider’s ability to audit their systems for potential security concerns.
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•Date: 5th May 2011 • Region: World •Type: Article • Topic: Cloud computing
Facilitated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 2011) has been scheduled for 16 to 20 May.
‘Desktop Cyber Exercise’ took place on Friday 11 March 2011.
Ponemon Institute and CA Technologies study shows cloud providers and users have conflicting views on cloud security.
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