business continuity:
markets and companies

Overview of the latest information from the major companies serving the business continuity market plus general BC industry updates.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service adoption growing: Yankee Group survey
While adoption is still much slower than that of SaaS solutions, the market is gaining traction.
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•Date: 8th Sept 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Commission approves acquisition of Chloride by Emerson
The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Chloride, a UK-based electrical equipment supplier, by the US company Emerson. The Commission concluded that the acquisition would not significantly impede effective competition in the European Economic Area (EEA) or any substantial part of it. The companies' activities overlap in the production and sale of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) products and related after-sales services. Read the EU notice in full.
•Date: 26th August 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC companies
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DSM wins State of Florida IT disaster recovery contract
The State of Florida has announced that it has awarded DSM Technology Consultants the state contract for disaster recovery services. DSM will provide state, county and local agencies/entities with a broader, more flexible and cost effective range of disaster recovery services. DSM has one of the largest and safest data center networks in the state of Florida as well as a network of in-state business continuity facilities (500+ seats). www.dsm.net
•Date: 20th August 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC companies
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Microsoft targets the business continuity market
Microsoft Services’s enhanced Premier Mission Critical aims to help businesses manage mission-critical solutions.
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•Date: 18th August 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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ICM announces large contract
In a statement by parent company Phoenix IT Group plc, it was revealed that ICM has signed a five year extension to its largest business continuity contract. This contract, which was due to expire on 31 March 2011, has been extended until March 2016 with an annual contract value of £3.44m, which will add £17m to the order book.
•Date: 18th August 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard announces second quarter 2010 results
SunGard has reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010. For the quarter, revenue was $1.30 billion, down 5 percent year over year, and income from operations was $126 million. Adjusted EBITDA was $354 million, down 1 percent year over year, and adjusted income from operations was $269 million, down 3 percent year over year. Availability Services revenue decreased 3 percent year over year to $365 million in the second quarter. Read the full results announcement.
•Date: 6th August 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC companies
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Omnitech aims to launch four more recovery centres in the next three years
India Infoline has reported that Omnitech InfoSolutions Ltd is planning to launch four recovery centres (Disaster Recovery Management Sites) in India. The regions identified include Bangalore, Chennai, NCR and Pune.
•Date: 6th August 2010 • Region: Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC companies
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Axcient secures $9M in second round of funding
Axcient, Inc., a provider of comprehensive data backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery services for managed service providers and their small and mid-sized business customers, has announced that it has completed its Series B funding of $9 million. More details.
•Date: 4th August 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Cloud Industry Forum completes public consultation on new Code of Practice
A new framework document has been published which provides information and planning assumptions to inform and encourage contingency planning in England.
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•Date: 3rd August 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain reports second quarter 2010 financial results
* Company delivers strong financial performance highlighted by an 8 percent increase in Adjusted OIBDA; Reported revenue growth is 5 percent for the quarter;
* Second quarter Adjusted EPS increases 13 percent to $0.28 per diluted share compared to Q2/2009; reported earnings are $0.20 per diluted share;
* Company maintains full year 2010 profit growth outlook; adjusts revenue outlook to reflect foreign currency rate changes and consistent internal growth trends.
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•Date: 30th July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets & companies
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Vocal wins Emergency Planning Society’s ‘Most Innovative Product of the Year’
Award goes to CaptureCall.
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•Date: 28th July 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets & companies
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SIOS expanding global enterprise market presence
SIOS Technology Group has announced that it will globally expand its business of assisting large enterprises in adopting cloud computing technology, leveraging its previous success in serving the data centers of Fortune 1000 enterprises based in Japan. To drive the strategy, SIOS will significantly expand its operations based out of Silicon Valley, creating a SIOS Technology Corp. division focused on global cloud computing opportunities. This division will include SIOS’ SteelEye Technology Inc. subsidiary, a leader in providing business continuity solutions to the enterprise data center, as part of a single operation. The company will complete the transition of SteelEye into SIOS Technology Corp. by Oct. 1, 2010. www.steeleye.com/sios
•Date: 28th July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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VMware launches new volume purchasing program
VMware has announced a new VMware Volume Purchasing Program (VPP). VMware VPP is designed to provide customers worldwide with consistent, accumulative software license discounting through an easy-to-use, tier-based points system. The program helps maximize the value derived from volume purchases of VMware software licenses, including significant cost savings on VMware solutions and increased budget predictability for future purchases. VPP is offered to customers through authorized VMware partners. www.vmware.com
•Date: 28th July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software stockholders approve Vision Solutions merger agreement
The company's stockholders will receive $10.55 in cash for each share of Double-Take Software common stock they hold.
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•Date: 23rd July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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IBM and the Texas Department of Information Resources in dispute over backup & recovery, security and disaster recovery, amongst other areas
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has issued a ‘Notice to Cure’ in response to a series of alleged contractual failures by IBM, the primary vendor for the state’s data center services program. The Notice to Cure asserts that IBM is in breach of its seven year service contract signed with the state in 2006 for $863 million dollars. The notice highlights ‘material breaches’ of the data center services contract in the areas of consolidation, backup and recovery, security, disaster recovery, service level attainment, and staffing, and multiple other breaches that ‘collectively constitute an additional material breach’. Read the Notice to Cure and DIR press release.
•Date: 21st July 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New CharTec offering allows managed service providers to deploy backup and disaster recovery as a service
CharTec has launched a custom-built business continuity solution that allows managed service providers to deploy backup and disaster recovery as a service. The CharTec BDR (Backup Disaster Recovery) appliance is an Intel based server solution that provides backup, disaster recovery, and replication of virtual images to the cloud with nightly self testing to make sure the backups are successful. The unit is backed by 24x7 US-based help desk support. There are no upfront costs, which enables any MSP to begin earning revenue immediately. Read press release.
•Date: 21st July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Omnitech to set up recovery facilities in NCR, Bangalore
Omnitech Infosolutions is planning to make a Rs 25 crore investment to set up two more recovery facilities (termed Disaster Recovery Business Continuity (DRBC) centres by the company) by the end of next year . One of the new facilities will be in the NCR and the other in Bangalore. The company currently has two facilities at Hyderabad and Navi Mumbai. http://www.omnitechindia.com/
•Date: 21st July 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software
GFI Software, a provider of software infrastructure products for small and medium-sized enterprises, has announced that it has acquired Sunbelt Software and specifically its VIPRE product suite. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition will allow GFI to merge VIPRE technology into GFI’s email security and web security solutions group, and will provide GFI with new security products consisting of world-class and innovative technology. The assets of Sunbelt’s software distribution business, started over 16 years ago and separate from the technology side of the company, will be divested into a separate entity and the company is exploring other strategic partnerships.
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•Date: 14th July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC companies
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CAPS Shelton CT data center and work recovery facility successfully completes SAS 70 Type II 2010 audit
Computer Alternative Processing Sites (CAPS), Inc., has announced the successful completion of its 2010 service auditor’s review, commonly known as a SAS 70 audit, of its general controls supporting the remote backup and recovery hosting solutions. The 2010 SAS 70 Type II audit is part of an ongoing audit agreement, begun in 2009 with its service auditor, guaranteeing that CAPS secure Shelton, Connecticut facility will undergo an annual Type II audit. The CAPS Shelton CT SAS 70 Type II data center serves the northeast states forming the Boston-New York metro business corridor. CAPS supports clients, from SMB to large enterprises, with colocation, managed services, data backup, workstation facilities, failover and notification communication systems, mobile disaster recovery and DR / BC services. www.capsbrs.com
•Date: 9th July 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC companies
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Compushare enhances Critical Systems Recovery solution
New Chicago data center will allow Compushare to offer a highly available redundant computing environment.
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•Date: 8th July 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets & companies
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CA ARCserve Backup r15 wins Backup Software Application of the Year at The Storage Awards 2010
CA Technologies has announced that that the readers of Storage Magazine named CA ARCserve® Backup r15 as ‘Backup Software Application of the Year’. Now in their seventh year, the Storage Awards recognize the most outstanding products, services and people in the storage industry. More than 25,000 votes were cast in determining the winners of the awards. www.arcserve.com.
•Date: 7th July 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software named 2010 Support Department of the Year by The American Business Awards
Double-Take Software has received the 8th Annual American Business Awards' Stevie Award as the 2010 Support Department of the Year. The Stevie Award was presented on June 21, 2010 and recognizes the company's dedication to providing its customers with outstanding support and customer service. More than 200 executives across the country participated in the judging process to determine the finalists and Stevie Award winners. www.doubletake.com
•Date: 2nd July 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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AT&T wins Frost & Sullivan 2010 Product Leadership of the Year Award for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Services North America
Award is based on Frost & Sullivan's recent research of CSP BC/DR strategies and portfolios.
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•Date: 24th June 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets & companies
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New CEO for SunGard Availability Services
Andrew Stern appointed as chief executive officer.
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•Date: 10th June 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT Group plc: audited preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2010
Phoenix IT Group plc, parent company of ICM, the UK-based business continuity company, has announces its preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2010. Group revenues decreased by 2.9 percent to £245.8m and underlying profit before tax increased by 4.2 percent to £29.5m. ICM’s revenue increased by 3.7 percent to £53.1m, with underlying profit from operations up 2.1 percent at £13.3m. More details.
•Date: 9th June 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SteelEye grows UK presence, expands business continuity sales efforts with new partners
SteelEye Technology has added two new reseller partners to expand its sales and customer support efforts in the United Kingdom, broadening SteelEye’s reach into that market. Now working with SteelEye are LETN Solutions, a Reading-based provider of infrastructure managed support, cloud services application hosting and infrastructure hosting; and 360is Ltd., a provider of information security, virtualization services and project management with offices in London and Cambridge. www.steeleye.com
•Date: 3rd June 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC companies
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UK print and mail disaster recovery provider expands capacity
Northampton-based Business Continuity purchases new printers to allow 50 percent more output.
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•Date: 26th May 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC companies
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SunGard Availability Services completes UK PC refresh
‘Biggest ever’ refresh is SunGard’s fourth in ten years.
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•Date: 19th May 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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BELFOR opens Latin American headquarters
BELFOR has announced the opening of its Santiago, Chile, office, which will function as the company's Latin American headquarters. In the time since the devastating earthquake that rocked the coastal nation in March, BELFOR has coordinated operations through the Santiago office, assisting several businesses with the repair of their facilities for resumed operations. "The Santiago office will function as a strategic base of operations, facilitating immediacy of response throughout Latin America," said Kirk Lively, BELFOR director of strategic operations. www.belfor.com
•Date: 19th May 2010 • Region:S.America •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software to be acquired by Vision Solutions in $242 million deal
Stockholders to receive $10.55 per share in cash.
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•Date: 18th May 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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The 2010 Business Continuity Awards
CIR Magazine has announced the winners of its annual Business Continuity Awards.
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- Hat-trick for SunGard
- ICM’s Emergency Office is Most Innovative Solution
•Date: 13th-14th May 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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BOWE BELL + HOWELL Business Continuity Production Services achieves SAS 70 certification for all Mail Processing Centers
BOWE BELL + HOWELL (BBH) has announced that it has been awarded SAS 70 Type II Certification. The widely recognized SAS 70 Audit confirms that a service organization has had its control objectives and control activities examined and certified by an independent accounting and auditing firm. The examination conducted at BBH included not only operational process controls, but also security and information technology processes at Business Continuity Production Services facilities in Bethlehem, Pa. and Wheeling, Ill. www.bowebellhowell.com
•Date: 14th May 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Storage replication service from SunGard Availability Services offered through EMC Select program
SunGard Availability Services’ Storage Replication Service will be available starting June 2010 through EMC Select, a program which helps customers easily acquire components that comprise an information infrastructure. SunGard’s Storage Replication Service leverages EMC RecoverPoint/SE technology and SunGard’s AdvancedRecovery services to help organizations recover quickly and cost effectively following an unplanned event. http://www.sungardservices.com/SG329
•Date: 14th May 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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‘ETERNUS for Business Continuity’
Fujitsu has launched its latest channel promotion for its ETERNUS disk storage system to support clients' need for robust and cost-effective business continuity solutions. On sale through December 31, 2010, a special bundle of hardware and software is available globally excluding Japan at a very attractive price point, allowing channel partners to offer competitive deals to their small- and medium-sized business customers. Under the slogan ‘ETERNUS for Business Continuity,’ this promotion ‘was created to support channel partners in times when the economy is heading for an upturn again and companies are ready to make necessary investments’. http://www.fujitsu.com/eternus/
•Date: 12th May 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Restart refresh
Manx business continuity provider, Restart, has completed a desktop PC refresh at its disaster recovery premises. All desks at the facility are now equipped with the latest specification HP Core 2 Duo PCs and TFT monitors. A proportion of the desks also include dual TFT monitors to offer flexibility to meet customer requirements.
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•Date: 12th May 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Steelhenge to showcase museum business continuity planning services at Museum and Heritage Show
Having completed an extensive business continuity project for the UK Natural History Museum, including crisis management training and scenario-based exercises, Steelhenge will be exhibiting at the Museum and Heritage Show at Earls Court, 12th & 13th May. Read press release.
•Date: 12th May 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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The UK gets a ‘DisasterNet’
Recently launched company provides a subscription based service, giving clients round the clock availability to receive disaster mitigation services.
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•Date: 7th May 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Recovery Point upgrades private fiber network to optical
Recovery Point claims that its carrier-neutral, DWDM private cloud network is unique among US hosting and disaster recovery providers.
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•Date: 7th May 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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SunGard announces first quarter 2010 results
SunGard has reported that revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 was $1.25 billion, down 6 percent from 2009. Adjusted EBITDA was $297 million, down 9 percent from 2009. Adjusted income from operations was $217 million, down 10 percent from 2009. Excluding the results of one of its trading systems businesses revenue was up 3 percent and adjusted income from operations was down 3 percent. Income from operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 was $74 million, down 26 percent from 2009. Availability Services' revenue decreased $1 million to $369 million for the quarter. Organic revenue decreased 3 percent in the quarter. Read the results.
•Date: 7th May 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New workforce continuity facility opens in Washington
New SunGard Availability Services recovery facility on Federal Way.
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•Date: 6th May 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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ContinuitySA provides more Cape Town recovery space
ContinuitySA is to expand its business continuity service capability in Cape Town with the addition of another 6,000 square metres of workarea / office recovery space available in the Somerset West area.
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•Date: 6th May 2010 • Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Equinix completes $683.4m acquisition of Switch and Data
Equinix, Inc., has announced completion of its acquisition of Switch and Data Facilities Company, Inc. in a transaction valued at $683.4 million and comprised of a cash payment of approximately $134.0 million and the issuance of approximately 5.5 million shares of Equinix common stock valued at $549.4 million based on the closing price of Equinix common stock as of April 30, 2010. The transaction strengthens Equinix’s position in the global data center / centre services market by extending the company’s presence to 16 new metropolitan areas across North America and by expanding the company’s regional data centre footprint from six to 22 metropolitan areas, providing expansion opportunities for Equinix’s growing global base of customers. www.equinix.com
•Date: 5th May 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services showcases new Sacramento Data Center
There will be an open house on Thursday, May 20, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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•Date: 5th May 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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BÖWE BELL + HOWELL awarded patent for disaster recovery solutions
BÖWE BELL + HOWELL has announced that it has been awarded a patent for using electronic means for delivering billing and statement information in the event that a disaster affects a mailer’s traditional mail delivery capabilities. The patent also includes notifying customers via one or many options including phone, e-mail and company websites of the availability of secure electronic information. www.bowebellhowell.com
•Date: 28th April 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SteelEye expands business continuity sales efforts with new appointments
SteelEye Technology, Inc., a provider of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for multi-vendor IT infrastructures, has announced the hiring of two senior executives to expand its global sales efforts. Scott Armour has joined SteelEye as executive vice president, worldwide sales, supervising all global field activities for the company. David Feltham became director of EMEA sales for SteelEye, overseeing management of direct sales efforts and sales activities conducted through the company’s resellers in Europe. Armour will be based at SteelEye’s new corporate headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., and Feltham is located in Roydon, northeast of London, in the United Kingdom. www.steeleye.com
•Date: 14th April 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Rentsys Recovery relocates a portion of its Mobile Recovery Center fleet to California Bay Area
The MRC units are located on the premises of Herakles, a data center company, as part of a new partnership agreement.
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•Date: 7th April 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Phoenix IT Group issues period-end trading update
Phoenix IT Group plc, the UK IT Services company which is the parent company for ICM, the UK-based business continuity company, has published an update on trading for the year to 31 March 2010 which confirms that trading and cash generation for the year to 31 March 2010 are in line with the board's expectations. The Group will announce its preliminary results for the year to 31 March 2010 on 7 June 2010.
•Date: 7th April 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Onyx Group crowned ‘Tees Valley Company of the Year’
Onyx Group has been named as the Tees Valley Company of the Year in North East England's biggest business awards. Neil Stephenson, managing director of Onyx Group, said the award came after an “amazing” and “special” year for the company. http://www.onyx.net/
•Date: 7th April 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Everbridge selected by CityCenter for emergency notification
Everbridge has announced that CityCenter, an 18-million-square foot, $8.5 billion gaming, entertainment, retail, hotel, and resort destination that opened in December 2009, has implemented the Everbridge Aware emergency notification system to ensure critical communications during unforeseen business disruptions. CityCenter uses the Everbridge system to communicate with operations and security personnel and keep them informed during unexpected incidents, including network interruptions, power outages and other facilities-related events. http://www.everbridge.com/
•Date: 7th April 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Epiphany makes special offer on risk management software
Company is offering an extensive 12 month free trial of the 2010 Edition of ‘Risk Network’ to UK organizations.
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•Date: 25th March 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Everbridge sees record growth in 2009
Everbridge, the leader in incident notification systems, has announced that it continued to drive technology innovation, customer acquisition and communications expertise in 2009, solidifying the company’s leadership position within the sector. In addition, the company achieved an average annual growth rate of 130 percent over the last three years, a figure considerably higher than the industry average, which Gartner calculated at 29 percent for 2009. More details.
•Date: 24th March 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard’s 2009 results
SunGard has reported that revenue for the full-year 2009 was $5.51 billion, down 2 percent from 2008. Adjusted EBITDA was $1.50 billion, down 7 percent from 2008. SunGard reported a loss from operations of $576 million for the full-year 2009, compared to income from operations of $470 million for the full-year 2008. The reported loss from operations in 2009 includes a noncash write-down of goodwill in SunGard’s Availability Services business of $1.13 billion. Read the full results.
•Date: 22nd March 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Adam Continuity achieves certification to BS 25999
UK- based business continuity supplier Adam Continuity has announced that it has achieved certification to BS 25999.
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•Date: 12th March 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard acquires Hosting 365
Ireland-based company will expand SunGard’s European footprint.
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•Date: 12th March 2010 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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ABI Research estimates business continuity and data disaster recovery market growth
Expects the above global market to grow from $24.3 billion in 2009 to more than $39 billion in 2015.
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•Date: 10th March 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain appoints Hasbro chairman to its board
Iron Mountain has announced that Alfred J. Verrecchia, chairman of the board of Hasbro Inc., has joined its board of directors. Verrecchia became Iron Mountain’s 11th director at the company’s regular March meeting. www.ironmountain.com
•Date: 5th Mar 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Deloitte acquires Simulstrat
Acquisition from King’s College London will bolster Deloitte’s Resilience and Testing practice.
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•Date: 26th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets and companies
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Iron Mountain announces $150 million share repurchase program
Iron Mountain’s board of directors has approved a new share repurchase program authorizing up to $150 million in repurchases of the company's common stock. This represents approximately 3 percent of the outstanding common stock based on the closing price on February 19, 2010. In addition, the company announced that its board of directors adopted a new dividend policy under which the company intends to pay quarterly cash dividends on Iron Mountain common stock. The first quarterly dividend of $0.0625 per share, representing a planned annual dividend payout of $0.25 per share, will be payable on April 15, 2010 to shareholders of record on March 25, 2010. The cash dividend is the first in the Company's history. Iron Mountain has also released its fourth quarter 2009 financial results this week, which show strong Adjusted OIBDA growth of 14 percent.
•Date: 26th Feb 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets and companies
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COOP Systems and MIR3 announce strategic reseller relationship
COOP Systems has announced a new reseller agreement with MIR3, to integrate MIR3's inEnterprise Intelligent Notification and Response platform into COOP Systems' myCOOP business continuity management software. This integration will allow the companies' mutual customers to access the MIR3's inEnterprise intelligent notification and response software and initiate any necessary communication without ever leaving the myCOOP system. Read press release.
•Date: 23rd Feb 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain acquires Mimosa Systems
Iron Mountain has announced that it has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mimosa Systems, Inc., a leader in enterprise-class content archiving solutions, for approximately $112 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments. The deal provides Iron Mountain with an integrated archive for email, SharePoint data and files, and gives the company an on-premises archiving option to complement its existing cloud-based archives. Read press release.
•Date: 23rd Feb 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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RecoveryPlanner receives US Department of Commerce Export Achievement Award
RecoveryPlanner has announced its acceptance of the US Department of Commerce Export Achievement Award. This award is presented to companies that have successfully entered the international marketplace. The RecoveryPlanner RPX product is built as a web-based application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS) or offered as a site license. The product has been designed from concept to easily accommodate international languages. International customers with web access simply access a secure website, log in and utilize the RPX product. Utilizing a network of partnerships that include resellers and consultants, RecoveryPlanner provides its global customers with knowledge of regulatory guidelines as well as direct technical support. RecoveryPlanner partners help adapt the offering to needs of its international customers while providing world-class product support. www.recoveryplanner.com
•Date: 23rd Feb 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services' CEO resigns
Eric Berg leaves SunGard.
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•Date: 10th Feb 2010 • Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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ICM and BT in voice continuity agreement
Highly resilient IP-based telephony system being rolled out across 7,500 end points and 14 business continuity centres.
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•Date: 5th Feb 2010 • Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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New Northern California data center for SunGard Availability Services
69,000 square foot facility will support managed IT services, disaster recovery and business continuity services.
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•Date: 27th Jan 2010 • Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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MarquisNet and Colo5 in disaster-recovery services joint-operating agreement
Las Vegas-based MarquisNet LLC, a provider of next-generation co-location and disaster-recovery services in Nevada and California, has announced a joint-operating agreement with Colo5, one of Florida's largest independent data center operators. Enterprise clients of the two companies can now enjoy protection and peace of mind by having the option of redundant data and business continuity centers in three major US metropolitan locations coast-to-coast. Under the agreement, MarquisNet and Colo5 will jointly support clients of both companies that want to protect and secure their mission-critical equipment in more than one data center. Together, the two companies have state-of-the-art co-location centers in Las Vegas, Southern California, and Jacksonville, Fla. Colo5 clients now can access MarquisNet's end-user disaster recovery solutions, which include co-location hot and warm sites, voice and data connectivity, and professional services to aid with disaster recovery. MarquisNet's customers can receive the same services and support in Colo5's state-of-the-art Florida data center. www.marquisnet.com
•Date: 27th Jan 2010 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets & companies
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HP creates IT risk, availability and security services portfolio
HP is integrating a wide variety of services from across the company into a unified HP Security, Compliance and Continuity Services portfolio.
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•Date: 26th Jan 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets & companies
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SunGard gets new chief financial officer
SunGard has announced that from January 1 2010 Robert Woods has been its new chief financial officer. Mr. Woods succeeds Michael Ruane who remains with SunGard as chief financial officer of its Availability Services business. Most recently, Mr. Woods, age 54, was chief financial officer of IKON Office Solutions. www.sungard.com
•Date: 4th Jan 2010 • Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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ICM acquires Office Shadow
£700,000 acquisition adds business continuity software to the ICM portfolio.
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•Date: 24th Dec 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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COOP Systems selects Janus-SI as European distributor
COOP Systems, the global provider of myCOOP business continuity software, has announced the selection of Janus-SI, a well-established integrator of value-added software solutions based in Paris, to help meet the growing demand for COOP Systems technology in continental Europe. Janus-SI joins COOP Systems' partners list as its first continental European partner and French-speaking distributor. www.janus-si.fr
•Date: 16th Dec 2009• Region: Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Rod Ratsma to lead Marsh Business Continuity Management team
Marsh has appointed Rod Ratsma as Leader of its UK Business Continuity Management team. Mr Ratsma will report to Jeff Colburn, Leader of Marsh’s UK Risk Consulting Practice and succeeds Martin Caddick in the role. Mr Ratsma joined Marsh as managing consultant of the BCM team in 2008 from Siemens Enterprise Communications (Insight Consulting), where he was principal and head of continuity consulting for two years. He has also held director-level positions with SunGard Availability Services, Guardian iT plc and Safetynet Group. www.marsh.com
•Date: 11th Dec 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Brightening up print and mail business continuity...
Pitney Bowes is to offer a new digital color printing capability at its Shelton, Connecticut, Business Recovery Services Center.
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•Date: 8th Dec 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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HP helps businesses maximize uptime in IT environments
HP has introduced a call management service that aligns HP and SAP remote support management capabilities, providing customers with a complete solution for their SAP application requirements across the technology infrastructure and ensuring a fast, high-quality support experience. Developed in cooperation with SAP AG, the HP Mission Critical Services Enhancement offers customers comprehensive support services for their mission-critical SAP solution-based environments. With HP Mission Critical support, HP experts collaborate closely with the SAP support team using integrated support processes that help customers proactively and reactively address issues in their business-critical landscapes.Read press release.
•Date: 8th Dec 2009• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Changes ahead for Office-Shadow
Office-Shadow expects to make an acquisition announcement in the next few days.
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•Date: 4th Dec 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Companies eyeing the private cloud: Gartner
Greater investment will be made in private cloud computing than in public cloud computing during the next couple of years.
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•Date: 2nd Dec 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IFB creates Scotland’s highest specification data centre
A £7 million investment by IFB in the creation of a new, high specification data centre in Scotland has been announced. The IFB centre will be unique in Scotland and will be one of only four sites in the UK to carry Uptime Institute Tier III certification. The centre is being developed in partnership with Dell, which will provide the technology best practice and infrastructure design for the centre which will be based in Aberdeen. The 14000 sq ft IFB centre will open during the second quarter of 2010. IFB will relocate its headquarters to the new building which will also house new business continuity suites specifically for IFB clients. Read press release.
•Date: 2nd Dec 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets and companies
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ICM holds its ground
Small increase in profits and revenue, despite the recession.
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•Date: 24th Nov 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Chloride acquires Emergency Power Systems
Chloride, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and services, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Emergency Power Systems plc, a UK provider of standby power solutions and services. Based in Sheffield and Glasgow, Emergency Power Systems plc manufactures fully integrated standby power products for emergency lighting, UPS and diesel generators, typically utilised in complex and demanding applications in rail, defence, government, retail, healthcare and industrial sectors. Emergency Power Systems will continue to operate as a standalone business, and Derek W Plowright, the former owner, will continue as managing director along with the existing management team structure to ensure a seamless transition into the Chloride Group. www.chloridepower.co.uk
•Date: 13th Nov 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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CAPS and eGlobal Insight form partnership delivering an advanced failover and notification communications system
US-based Computer Alternative Processing Sites (CAPS), Inc. and eGlobal Insight, Inc. have announced a partnership to offer what the companies claim will be the market's fastest and most highly advanced failover and notification communications system. Under the agreement's terms, eGlobal Insight's system becomes part of the CAPS Total IT Solutions products and services roster, expands its business footprint into the IT infrastructure data center space and selects CAPS as its data center disaster recovery site provider. CAPS and eGlobal Insight jointly will market and offer the system immediately to its clients. Read press release.
•Date: 13th Nov 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New COOP Systems distributor in Thailand
COOP Systems has announced that Twoplus Soft Co., Ltd. has agreed to sell and support a fully localized myCOOP business continuity software package to the Thai market. "We are very pleased to have Twoplus as a strategic partner in Asia," said Chris Alvord, CEO of COOP Systems. "The special nature of the Kingdom of Thailand, with a large population, very rapid economic growth and special exposure to pandemic risk, makes for a key target market for COOP Systems. With no other Thai-language BCM software in the market, we believe that myCOOP will be a big success.
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•Date: 13th Nov 2009• Region: SE Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Clearing the fog from the cloud
Technology leaders collaborate to ‘demystify’ the emerging cloud computing industry and develop a code of conduct.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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SunGard announces third quarter 2009 results
SunGard has reported that revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2009 was $1.34 billion, a decrease of 4 percent compared to the same period in 2008. On a constant currency basis, organic revenue decreased by 7 percent in the quarter. Approximately five percentage points of the decrease in organic revenue was attributable to one of its broker/dealer businesses. Adjusted income from operations for the three months ended September 30, 2009 was $300 million, a 3 percent increase from $290 million in 2008. Read the results announcement.
•Date: 6th November 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Green Mountain Energy Company calls on tw telecom to build disaster recovery solution
tw telecom has announced that Texas-based Green Mountain Energy Company has completed the implementation of a new disaster recovery solution over tw telecom's national MPLS network. The installation includes its new fiber optic network expansion in Phoenix, Arizona.The solution connects Green Mountain's Austin data center to a redundant implementation of servers and storage operating in a third-party data center served by tw telecom. Read press release.
•Date: 4th November 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Onyx continues on the acquisition trail
Takes-over London-based Disaster Recovery Solutions.
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•Date: 27th Oct 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets and companies
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Double success for BCP Asia
BCP Asia becomes first company to gain certification to both British Standard BS25999 and the Singapore BCM Standard SS540:2008.
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•Date: 16th Oct 2009• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services launches ‘SunGard-as-a-Service’
‘Private cloud’ infrastructure service offers highly resilient cloud computing.
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•Date: 15th Oct 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New recovery centre for Milton Keynes
November 1st sees the launch of 50-seat facility by UK Business Continuity.
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•Date: 15th Oct 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Best Practices in Storage Awards presented
Winners announced at SNW Fall 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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•Date: 14th Oct 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SIFMA implements Everbridge Emergency Notification System to Support business continuity
Everbridge has announced that the US Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has implemented the Everbridge Aware emergency notification system to support business continuity and resiliency initiatives. “After evaluating a number of notification systems, we selected Everbridge based on the system’s exceptional infrastructure, ease of use, flexibility across departments, and innovation of the service,” said Howard Sprow, vice president, Business Continuity for SIFMA. www.everbridge.com
•Date: 14th Oct 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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UK gets more highly resilient data centre space
SunGard Availability Services adds 10,000ft² of data centre space to meet increased demand for managed services.
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•Date: 2nd Oct 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Twenty First Century Communications and IntraPoint partner to ‘offer a complete incident command center solution’
Will enable clients to manage incidents and crises from a single dashboard.
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•Date: 23rd Sept 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis communications
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The Asia Pacific commercial UPS market
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific Commercial Uninterruptible Power Supply Market, finds that the market earned revenues of over $1.60 billion in 2008 and estimates this to reach $2.12 billion in 2015. The market is fiercely competitive, particularly in East Asia. Numerous participants are in the fray and considering the innumerable options to choose from, end users have become highly price sensitive and discerning.
•Date: 23rd Sept 2009• Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Continuity Software expands channel partner program into Europe
Continuity Software has announced the expansion of its channel partner program into Europe. The newly expanded program, now offered in the US, Israel and Europe, is intended to enable value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators (SIs) to offer a comprehensive end-to-end solution for ensuring disaster recovery, high availability and business continuity. In addition to the ability to add RecoverGuard to their offerings portfolio, participants in the program are provided with access to an extensive partner-only extranet that includes such materials as: a marketing, sales and professional services solution kit, documentation, demos, and other collateral as well as the ability to sign-up for exclusive technical training sessions and marketing programs. http://www.continuitysoftware.com/partners/overview
•Date: 2nd Sept 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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Transatlantic disaster recovery offered by iland and Vizioncore
Channel-ready services are suitable for organizations of all sizes.
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•Date: 18th August 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Office of Government Commerce updates business continuity and disaster recovery guidance in public sector ICT procurement contract guide
The UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC has published an enhanced version (V2.3) of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Model Services Agreement and Guidance for major or complex ICT enabled business change projects. The free-to-use solution includes significant updates in the key areas of financial distress and security management. As part of this the business continuity and disaster recovery aspects of the guidance (schedule 8.6) have been updated and clarified. http://www.partnershipsuk.org.uk/ogcictguidance.aspx
•Date: 14th August 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Public sector
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InMage offers managed service providers new market opportunities based on tiered managed recovery services
InMage has announced the availability of infrastructure solutions for managed service providers that will enable them to easily offer tiered recovery solutions for their customers. In building recovery solutions around the InMage Scout platform, MSPs will address end users' biggest data and application recovery problems, including backup impacts, data loss on recovery, lengthy recovery times, recovery reliability, and implementing cost-effective disaster recovery. Read press release.
•Date: 13th August 2009• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Verizon Business expands global business continuity professional services
Verizon Business is expanding its already broad portfolio of business continuity professional services to address gaps commonly found in existing continuity programs.
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•Date: 31st July 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT Group issues interim management statement
Phoenix IT Group plc, parent of ICM the UK based business continuity provider, has released an interim management statement relating to the period from 1 April 2009 up to 30 July 2009. The financial results for the Group for the first quarter are in line with the Board's expectations. Through a combination of the ongoing focus on the provision of higher margin services and continuing cost control, the margins in both the Partner and the Business Continuity divisions continued to improve in the quarter. However, excluding the effect of the sale of the Group's French business, on a like-for-like basis revenue for the first quarter of the financial year decreased by 5 percent compared to the corresponding period last year reflecting the impact of the recession over the last 12 months. Overall the Group achieved an operating profit for the period in line with the same period last year as a result of the higher Group operating margin.
•Date: 31st July 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain reports second quarter 2009 financial results
* Company delivers strong 10 percent OIBDA growth; results supported by solid core revenue internal growth, gross margin gains and overhead cost controls;
* Year-over-year strengthening of the US dollar reduces reported revenues and OIBDA growth by 7 percent, as expected;
* Strong cash flows increase liquidity; consolidated leverage ratio maintained at 3.6 times net debt to EBITDA
* Earnings are $0.43 per diluted share for the quarter including $0.18 per share of Other Income and the related tax benefit resulting from the weakening of the U.S. dollar since March 31, 2009
* Company refines 2009 guidance to reflect current trends and projected impacts from recent changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
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•Date: 31st July 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services joins DMTF's Open Cloud Standards Incubator Leadership Board
Will help develop standards for interoperability of cloud computing environments; contributing information availability and recovery expertise for cloud computing.
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•Date: 30th July 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Delhi Stock Exchange outsources business continuity and DR to IBM
IBM will build, host and manage the entire disaster recovery infrastructure for DSE.
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•Date: 16th July 2009• Region: India •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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BÖWE BELL + HOWELL announces ISO 9001:2008 recertification of its BBH Bethlehem Services facilities
BÖWE BELL + HOWELL has announced achievement of ISO 9001:2008 recertification status for its BBH Bethlehem Services facilities. The Bethlehem facilities have been ISO 90001 certified since 2006. Certification to the new 2008 version of the ISO standard validates the process approach developed and implemented by BBH that improves the effectiveness of the quality management system to enhance customer satisfaction. BBH Bethlehem Services includes two facilities: Product Reconditioning Services (PRS), specializing in the design, manufacture and remanufacture of mail processing equipment; and Business Continuity Production Services (BCPS), which provides disaster recovery and document processing services for the financial, insurance, utility, state and federal government vertical markets. www.bowebellhowell.com
•Date: 10th July 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Integralis and CAPS form alliance
Integralis and Computer Alternative Processing Sites (CAPS), Inc. have announced an alliance. Under the terms of the agreement, CAPS has selected Integralis as its primary managed IT infrastructure services, managed security services, consulting, and technology integration provider, and will market and sell Integralis services as part of a full range of SMB and enterprise production, business continuity, and disaster recovery products. These products include secure data centers, co-location and workstation facilities, data storage, and mobile recovery.Read press release (PDF).
•Date: 9th July 2009• Region:US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard expands UK network of resilient data centres
Supports the growing number of businesses turning to cloud computing.
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•Date: 18th June 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Marathon Technologies wins Best of Show Award at Interop Tokyo
Marathon has announced that its everRun VM software was named a ‘Best of Show’ winner at Interop Tokyo. everRun VM was selected by a jury of influential IT professionals after a rigorous examination. The judges awarded everRun VM the Grand Prize Award Winner in the Server and Storage Solution category. More details.
•Date: 18th June 2009• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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EMC launches new business continuity services for VMware environments
Four new EMC services help customers design and implement a consistent recovery strategy.
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•Date: 16th June 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Strong results for ICM
Business continuity operating profits up 37.5 percent.
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•Date:2nd June 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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EMC proposes to acquire Data Domain
EMC Corporation has proposed to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Data Domain, Inc. for $30.00 per share in cash, in a transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $1.8 billion, net of Data Domain’s cash. EMC’s all-cash offer represents a 20 percent premium to the cash and stock offer made by NetApp for Data Domain on May 20, 2009. Read press release.
•Date:2nd June 2009• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services and Phoenix Health Systems partner to supply information availability services to community hospitals
SunGard Availability Services has partnered with Phoenix Health Systems, a provider of healthcare IT outsourcing, consulting and revenue cycle management solutions, to help US hospitals improve information availability for electronic medical records and other technologies essential to quality of care. Read press release.
•Date: 28th May 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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RecoveryPlanner expands into Brasil
RecoveryPlanner, the developer of emergency management, business continuity and disaster recovery software and services, has announced that it has opened an office in Sao Paulo, Brasil. This will provide Brasil and South America with direct access to RecoveryPlanner’s business continuity products and services. “The Brasilian market for business continuity management is growing rapidly and has placed significant emphasis on disaster planning and recovery solutions,” said Rosalina Rodrigues, general manager for RecoveryPlanner-Brasil. br.recoveryplanner.com
•Date: 27th May 2009• Region: S.America •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Zenith introduces ARCA
‘Advanced Recovery Continuity Appliance’ offers backup and restore options for businesses looking to independently maintain and monitor their systems.
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•Date: 21st May 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Everbridge (formerly 3n Global) closes out $9 million Series A financing
Everbridge, the incident notification systems company, has completed the second tranche of a $9 million Series A financing with ABS Ventures. These funds will be used to pursue new market opportunities, further enhance service offerings, and continue business growth. The company more than doubled revenue in 2008 and saw continued acceleration in the first quarter of 2009, delivering its 17th consecutive quarter of revenue growth. www.everbridge.com
•Date: 14th May 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Quest and C7 sign colocation and disaster recovery agreement
Quest, a US business technology management firm offering a full spectrum of data center products and services and C7 Data Centers (C7), the provider of data center solutions in the Intermountain West, have announced the signing of a multi-year agreement to pool their mutual facilities and services to provide enhanced colocation and business continuity solutions. With C7's four data centers and Quest's two data centers, as well as facilities in AZ, NV, ID & HI, customers have the ability to secure and access their data at geographical disparate locations. www.questsys.com
•Date: 14th May 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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NonVerba signs deal with Richard Fleischman & Associates
NonVerba Limited, which has offices in Berkeley Square, London, Chennai, India and New Jersey, USA, and which is a provider of business continuity solutions, has signed a three year deal with US-based Richard Fleischman & Associates (RFA) to provide business continuity software and consultancy services to RFA, and by way of sub-licence to RFA’s clients. www.rfa.com
•Date: 12th May 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Recovery Point rolls out across the US
Providing data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity delivered from integrated and interconnected recovery sites.
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•Date: 8th May 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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SunGard announces first quarter 2009 results
SunGard has reported that revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2009 was $1.34 billion, an increase of 2.5 percent compared to the same period in 2008. On a constant currency basis, organic revenue growth was 2 percent in the quarter. Cristobal Conde, president and chief executive officer, commented, "We are very pleased that we achieved positive organic revenue growth in the quarter in the face of very challenging industry conditions. Our overall performance was better than we expected. While the IT spending mood remains cautious, some of our customers feel that the worst is behind them, and we are starting to see spending pick up in areas such as compliance and regulation. Our competitiveness is very strong and we are very well positioned to help our customers gain efficiencies and reduce risk and that is why they regard SunGard as a trusted partner." Read the full results.
•Date:8th May 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Grigg joins eBRP
eBRP Solutions has announced that Paul Grigg has joined it’s team as Business Development Director. Grigg previously spent 8 years as a senior account executive at SunGard before most recently serving as vice president of sales at Office-Shadow, Inc. Grigg says: "I’m delighted to be joining eBRP, a rock solid organization with an exceptionally advanced BCM solution!”. A native of Southampton in the UK, and a New Jersey resident, Paul will spearhead the rapid growth of eBRP’s Global Business Development program. www.eBRP.net
•Date:6th May 2009• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Amsterdam Internet Exchange appoints business continuity consultant
Capitoline LLP has announced that it has been appointed as data centre audit and business continuity consultants for the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX). AMS-IX is one of the world's largest internet exchanges and interconnects small and large ‘traditional’ Internet Service Providers, international carriers, mobile operators, content providers, VoIP providers, application providers, web hosters and other related businesses. www.capitoline.eu
•Date:30th April 2009• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Neverfail reports continued growth for FY2009
Neverfail has announced that the company achieved sustained growth in its fiscal year ending March 31, 2009. From April 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009, Neverfail experienced close to 50 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Fueling this growth were significant milestone OEM deals with virtualization solution provider VMware and unified communications solution provider AVST. www.neverfailgroup.com
•Date:30th April 2009• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Razor expands
UK risk management and communications specialist Razor has marked its first year anniversary as part of the College Hill Group by adding four new consultants to its UK team. The Razor business now has a team of 17 spread between its offices in Oxfordshire and central London. www.razor-pr.com
•Date:17th April 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New ‘Venyu’ for data protection
AmeriVault and NTG have announced the launch of ‘Venyu’ — a newly combined company created to deliver commercial-grade, customizable solutions for data protection, availability and recovery. Bolstered by the financial strength and stability of parent company PHNS, Venyu gives small-to-medium sized businesses more reliable data protection and recovery alternatives and eliminates the need for courier services, back-up tape and on-premise hardware. www.venyu.com
•Date:8th April 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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ContinuitySA reports a successful year
South Africa-based business continuity provider ContinuitySA has reported good results for its financial year ended December 2008. The company made R15 million after tax profits, an increase of 30 percent on the previous year. ContinuitySA says that all aspects of its operations in Africa were growth areas in 2008 and that it expects further expansion this year, with more disaster recovery sites established. http://www.continuitysa.co.za
•Date:8th April 2009• Region: Africa •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT Group issues trading statement
Phoenix IT Group plc, the parent company of ICM, has issued an update on trading for the year to 31 March 2009. This states that: “The Board of Phoenix IT Group plc confirms that trading, cash generation and non-recurring costs for the year to 31 March 2009 have been in line with the Board's expectations. At 31 March 2009, net bank debt was £72.4m, compared to bank facilities of £109.0m and finance lease liabilities were approximately £16m. Non-recurring costs (relating to integration costs; staff termination costs; and disposal costs arising from the sales of ICM Business Solutions Limited and Phoenix's French business, Phoenix Holding S.A.) will be approximately £8m before any property impairments that may be appropriate.”
•Date:8th April 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Firestorm offers business continuity franchise opportunities
Firestorm Franchising LLC has announced that it will begin accepting applications for business continuity planning and consulting franchises.
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•Date:3rd April 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services launches new partner program
Will enable partners to create information availability solution practices.
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•Date:25th March 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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NEC obtains BS25999-2 certification
NEC Corporation has announced that it has been awarded BS25999-2 certification. NEC obtained the certification from BSI Management Systems Japan, a branch of the British Standard Institution. http://www.nec.com.
•Date:19th March 2009• Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Steelhenge certified to BS 25999-2:2007
Steelhenge, the UK-based business continuity consultancy firm, has announced that it has been certified to BS 25999-2:2007, the British Standard in Business Continuity Management. www.steelhenge.co.uk
•Date:17th March 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Cloud Computing is more than just hype: IDC
Worldwide spending on cloud services expected to reach US$42 billion by 2012.
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•Date:6th March 2009• Region: Asia Pacific / World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard announces 2008 results
SunGard has reported that adjusted income from operations for the year 2008 was $1.22 billion, a 6 percent increase over $1.15 billion in 2007. Reported income from operations for the year 2008 was $470 million compared to $631 million for the year 2007, a decrease of 26 percent. Availability Services’ revenue increased 2 percent to $392 million for the quarter, reaching $1.57 billion for the year. Organic revenue declined 1 percent. Excluding the impact of foreign exchange movements, organic revenue grew 4 percent in the quarter. More details
•Date: 24th February 2009• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Business continuity specialist Plan-b opens Wellington office
Business continuity specialist Plan-b, who has been active in Auckland for over ten years, is extending its services to businesses and organisations in the Wellington region for the first time. Plan-b claims to be New Zealand's largest dedicated business continuity company, providing contingency services to over 500 organisations in New Zealand and Australia. http://www.plan-b.co.nz/
•Date: 17th February 2009• Region: NZ •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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US SMBs taking backup to new levels
US SMBs are increasingly adopting data protection technologies previously seen only in enterprise data centers: IDC survey.
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•Date:12th February 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IDC reports on China's disaster recovery market
Spending reached US$483.1 million in 2008, a 29.9 percent increase over 2007; IDC forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 20.7 percent over 2008-2013.
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•Date:10th February 2009• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Mauritius puts itself forward as a ‘global disaster recovery and business continuity centre’
Strategic location makes it the ideal off-shore disaster recovery hub: according to Mauritius Board of Investment.
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•Date:10th February 2009• Region: Africa/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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eHosting Datafort partners with BCM Institute to offer business continuity and data recovery services
eHosting DataFort has announced it has entered into a partnership with the Singapore-based Business Continuity Management Institute and GMH Pte Ltd (GMH) to jointly provide organizations across the Middle East with end-to-end IT services focusing on business continuity and data recovery. More details.
•Date:10th February 2009• Region: M.East •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Spending on managed services increasing despite recession
According to Insight Research.
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•Date:6th February 2009• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services completes a refresh of recovery facility desktop PCs in North America
Over 5,900 new Hewlett-Packard PCs have been deployed across 29 SunGard workforce continuity services facilities and 41 mobile recovery units. 
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•Date:30th January 2009• Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT, ICM’s parent company, issues interim management statement
Business continuity sales remain strong.
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•Date:30th January 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Biscon devises a new total continuity plan for small businesses
A Gloucestershire, UK, based team of consultants have created a ‘complete’ business continuity solution for small businesses – something which they feel has never been available on the market before. Read press release.
•Date:30th January 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New business continuity training company launched in the UK
A new company, Business Continuity Training Ltd, has been formed to address what is sees as 'a hole in the market for a high quality, value for money training provider’.
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•Date:27th January 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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BCI Partnership publishes 2009 campaigning activities update
Aims to raise awareness of business continuity management.
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•Date:21st January 2009• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Peak 10 named finalist in 2009 National Stevie Awards for sales and customer service
Peak 10, Inc., the leading independent data center operator and disaster recovery managed services provider, has announced that it has been named as a finalist in the ‘Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year’ category in the third annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word ‘crowned,’ winners will be announced during a gala banquet on Monday, February 9, 2009 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. www.peak10.com
•Date:16th January 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Independent business continuity validation and certification services now available for US market
USContinuity has announced the availability of business continuity validation and certification services for the US market. These provide clients with an independent evaluation of business continuity plans, following full testing of the client’s actual and intended recovery methodologies. www.USContinuity.com
•Date:16th January 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain and Microsoft agree cloud-based backup and recovery collaboration deal
Iron Mountain Digital and Microsoft are working together to deliver a cloud-based backup and recovery solution for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.
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•Date:15th January 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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eBRP launches SaaS-based business continuity software
eBRP’s has announced a new software-as-a-service based business continuity management software tool. For a flat monthly fee, organizations can now ‘rent’ eBRP’s award winning Toolkit software. More details at http://www.ebrp.net/?CC
•Date:15th January 2009• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC software
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Microsoft and Marathon Technologies expand relationship to provide fault tolerant computing to more businesses
Microsoft and Marathon have announced a development and marketing agreement designed to address the fault tolerant and high availability computing needs for business customers running Windows Server-based applications in enterprise information technology departments and data centers. Read press release.
•Date:13th January 2009• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Continuity Forum and the BCI to work more closely in Australia
The Australian Continuity Forum has announced that it has agreed a new cooperation agreement with the Australasian Chapter of the Business Continuity Institute.
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•Date:9th January 2009• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Satyam fights for survival
India-based Satyam, which, amongst other technology areas, provides mission critical and business continuity services globally, has been plunged into an accounting scandal after admissions by founder and chairman Mr. Ramalinga Raju that the company had inflated its cash and bank balances on the balance sheet by more than $1 billion over the past several years.
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•Date:9th January 2009• Region: Asia/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Center 7 completes acquisition of Tier Four Data Centers
Center 7, Inc., the provider of colocation, virtualization and disaster recovery solutions in the Intermountain West, has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Tier Four, Inc., a well-known and trusted provider of colocation services. The company also announced a corporate name change from Center 7, Inc. to C7 Data Centers, Inc. (C7). Read press release.
•Date:9th January 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Adam Continuity appoints business continuity specialist for Wales
Adam Continuity has appointed Barry Warren as the company’s business continuity specialist for Wales. Based at Adam Continuity’s head office in Wales at Duffryn Business Park, Ystrad Mynach, Mid Glamorgan, Barry will be responsible for client liaison, support and sales throughout Wales and south west England. www.adam.co.uk
•Date:8th January 2009• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Sterling Savings Bank chooses IT-Lifeline for workplace recovery
Sterling Savings Bank has chosen IT-Lifeline, the provider of disaster recovery and business continuity services for small to medium sized businesses in the US Pacific Northwest, as its workplace recovery center.
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•Date:6th January 2009• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Richard Fleischman and Associates opens new business continuity facility
‘Safe Harbor’ is located in Purchase, NY.
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•Date:17th Dec 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Wipro launches ‘Disaster Recovery Assurance Services’
New service for India and Middle East markets.
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•Date:12th Dec 2008• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Storage software market continues to shine
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 20th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2008 (3Q08) with revenues of $3.1 billion, an 11.6 percent increase over the same quarter one year ago. EMC led the overall market with 24.7 percent revenue share in the third quarter of 2008. Symantec took the second position with 17.8 percent revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.9 percent revenue share. NetApp finished in the fourth position with 8.5 percent revenue share while HP and CA rounded out the top 5 in a statistical tie with 4.3 percent and 4.0 percent revenue share, respectively. www.idc.com
•Date:12th Dec 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Mauritius recovery centre being developed
ContinuitySA, Mauritius Telecom and Blanche, Birger partner in Mauritius business continuity venture.
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•Date:10th Dec 2008• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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LINK Associates forms new division: MediaLINK
UK business continuity company LINK Associates has launched a new division called MediaLINK. Based in LINK’s London office, MediaLINK is led by communication specialist Mike Hogan, formerly head of Global Media Relations at Shell International. “MediaLINK aims to help clients in two ways. Firstly we provide a bespoke crisis management training scheme to help keep media onside as the drama unfolds. But we go one step further; we provide Issues Management expertise which could prevent a crisis becoming full-blown,” explained Mr. Hogan. www.linkassociates.com
•Date: 27th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Sembcorp offers BS 25999 consultancy
New service based on Sembcorp’s own experience of becoming BS 25999 certified.
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•Date: 25th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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ICM parent publishes interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2008
Phoenix IT Group plc, the parent of ICM, the UK-based business continuity company, has announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2008. Highlights include:
* Revenue up 25.4 percent to £127.8m (2007: £101.9m)
* Profit from operations of £11.5m (2007: £11.2m)
£9.3m)
* Profit before tax of £7.5m (2007: £7.5m)
* Business continuity order book of over £100m for the first time.
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•Date: 25th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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AT&T completes integration of Network Disaster Recovery organization
Project expands the scope of AT&T's NDR functions beyond the core backbone network to also encompass response to emergency situations that impact local wireless and wired access networks.
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•Date: 25th Nov 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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The impact of the global financial crisis on the business continuity market
The final results of a recent survey by Continuity Central show that the effects of the credit crunch vary markedly from region to region.
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•Date: 20th Nov 2008• Region:Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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CA launches ‘Instant Recovery On Demand’
Software-as-a-Service offering supports IT continuity without capital investment.
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•Date: 17th Nov 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Singapore government introduces business continuity incentives
Financial assistance available to help local businesses develop business continuity management systems.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2008• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SBA website aims to help small US businesses win post-disaster contracting opportunities
Information about federal contacting opportunities for small businesses able to support post-disaster cleanup and rebuilding.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Very strong commercial demand for storage-as-a-service
According to IDC report.
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•Date: 11th Nov 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard announces third quarter 2008 results
SunGard has reported today that revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2008 was $1.39 billion, an increase of 14 percent compared to the same period in 2007. Organic revenue grew 11 percent. Adjusted income from operations was $290 million, compared to $291 million in the same period in 2007. Read full results announcement.
•Date: 11th Nov 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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BSI launches business continuity certification services in Singapore
BSI Management Systems offers certification to BS 25999 and the new Singapore Standard, SS 540.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2008• Region: Singapore •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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enChoice acquires CYA Technologies
enChoice has announced the acquisition of CYA Technologies of Shelton, Conn. Founded in 1993, enChoice is a premier software developer and services provider with a full range of product, implementation, and support capabilities across Automation & Security, eBusiness and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. CYA has provided innovative granular recovery and replication solutions to ECM customers since 1998. The combination of the two organizations will create a company leveraging over 30 years of combined expertise to deliver best-of-breed solutions within the ECM market. http://www.enchoice.com http://www.cya.com
•Date: 6th Nov 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard gets five year contract from London School of Economics
SunGard Availability Services has announced that it has won a five year information availability contract with The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The new agreement, which is scheduled to be fully implemented by the end of 2008, will see SunGard provide LSE with data centre space in two of its resilient data centres, its London Technology Centre, near West London and TC2 in London's Docklands. LSE will use SunGard's Electronic Vaulting to backup and recover all of its critical systems and data held on 97 servers, totalling over 40 terabytes of data, helping to ensure that students and staff are able to access critical information despite interruption. SunGard will also provide LSE with its fully managed E-mail Availability Service and provide archiving capability for the School’s e-mail system. www.sungard.co.uk
•Date: 6th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Sembcorp achieves BS 25999 certification
Sembcorp UK has become BS 25999 certified. David Guy, Sembcorp senior vice president, said: “It is a great honour and a significant achievement for our business to be recognised in this way. It means we can demonstrate to our customers, shareholders and employees that we have robust systems in place that allow us to cope in just about any eventuality.” More details (PDF)
•Date: 4th Nov 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain reports third quarter 2008 financial results
- Q3 revenue up 12 percent year-over-year driven by solid 8 percent internal growth and balanced performance across business segments.
- OIBDA (excluding asset gains and losses) increases 14 percent year-over-year on revenue growth, gross margin gains and disciplined cost management; operating income increases to $136 million. Read press release.
•Date: 31st October 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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HP developing new business continuity facility in Rugby, UK
Centre will offer 450 work-area recovery positions; replaces two HP legacy sites.
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•Date: 30th October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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RDSI Banking Systems forms partnership with Recovery Solutions, Inc.
Recovery Solutions will provide an innovative turnkey technology mobile disaster recovery banking solution.
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•Date: 30th October 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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COOP Systems wins large BCP software contract with Texas Health
COOP Systems has announced that the Texas Department of State Health Services has procured and deployed the myCOOP business continuity software package statewide as the result of a competitive award process. www.coop-systems.com
•Date: 30th October 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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IDC finds cloud computing entering period of accelerating adoption
Cloud computing is reshaping the IT marketplace.
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•Date: 28th October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Global financial crisis having limited impact on the business continuity market
According to the interim results of Continuity Central’s latest survey.
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•Date: 22nd October 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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SunGard announces UK expansion plans
Major investments in infrastructure and service delivery scheduled.
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•Date: 22nd October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software opens office in Dubai
Double-Take Software has announced the opening of its first office in the Middle East at Dubai Media City to better serve the Gulf Co-operation Council region. The new office will be directed by Hafida Rahmi, sales director Middle East and Africa. Wouter Vancoppenolle, business development manager Middle East and Africa will also provide locally high level presales and sales support.
•Date: 22nd October 2008• Region: Middle East •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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NonVerba expands into US market
NonVerba Ltd, a UK-based provider of business continuity management software and consultancy, has announced that it has expanded into the US market. Ravi Srinivasan will be responsible for leading the operational and strategic efforts of NonVerba in the country. http://www.nonverba.com/
•Date: 22nd October 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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LINBIT HA Solutions GmbH opens US subsidiary in Beaverton, OR
LINBIT HA Solutions GmbH, a German provider of high availability and disaster recovery solutions, has opened a subsidiary in Beaverton, OR. Kavan Smith and Brian Hellman will be heading the executive team for LINBIT's North American operations.
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•Date: 10th October 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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ICM parent company issues trading statement
Phoenix highlights strong growth in its ICM business continuity division.
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•Date: 9th October 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Marathon Technologies and Ingram Micro team to bring fault-tolerant, high availability software to server virtualization
Marathon Technologies, the only provider of fault-tolerant, high availability software for physical and virtual servers, has announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with the exclusive Citrix XenServer distributor in North America, Ingram Micro Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Ingram Micro will offer Marathon's everRun high availability and disaster recovery software to its resellers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. www.marathontechnologies.com
•Date: 7th October 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Australian records management spend to grow in 2009
Spurred on by investment in regulatory compliance.
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•Date: 3rd October 2008• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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HP to acquire LeftHand Networks
HP has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks Inc., a provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network solutions. LeftHand Networks’ solutions enable midsize companies and remote offices or branches of large corporations to easily and cost-effectively protect critical business data. HP has agreed to purchase LeftHand Networks for $360 million in cash, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.
•Date: 3rd October 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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US managed security services market to reach $2.8 billion by 2012
According to IDC.
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•Date: 25th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Continuity Software and Forsythe sign partnership agreement
Israel-based Continuity Software, a provider of disaster recovery and high availability monitoring solutions, has announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Forsythe, an IT infrastructure consultant and integrator. Under the terms of the agreement, Forsythe will offer Continuity Software’s RecoverGuard software to its customers in the United States and Canada. www.forsythe.com www.continuitysoftware.com
•Date: 25th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Rentsys Recovery Services responds to 20 Hurricane Ike declarations including 14 mobile recoveries
Rentsys has responded to multiple declarations in the Gulf Coast region.
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•Date: 23rd Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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SunGard handles 25+ concurrent invocations
Reports 100 percent success rate supporting customers impacted by Hurricane Ike.
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•Date: 19th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Kingswell International expands
Business continuity consultancy Kingswell International has expanded with new consultants in various regions of the world. Paul Kirvan has joined Kingswell as its USA representative and Jayne Howe now represents Kingswell in Canada. Additionally, Thomas Carroll has become a director, and Ian Pidgen and Brian O'Mahony have joined as senior consultants. www.kingswell.net
•Date: 19th Sept 2008• Region: Various •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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COOP Systems announces IBM partnership
COOP Systems has announced an extensive new relationship with IBM where IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services will resell COOP Systems’ business continuity planning and management software products.
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•Date: 12th Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Internal Revenue Service chooses eBRP Toolkit Suite
The US Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Information Technology Disaster Recovery Organization (ITDRO), has chosen to deploy the eBRP Toolkit Suite as its disaster recovery / business resumption decision support tool. This is an enterprise-wide deployment which will enhance critical infrastructure protection, response planning, reporting, and incident management; while ensuring NIMS/ICS and other regulatory compliances. The Toolkit, from eBRP Solutions, is a suite of web-based business continuity plan development utilities.www.eBRP.net
•Date: 10th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Mail-Gard opens second print-to-mail recovery facility
The Mail-Gard division of Transcontinental Direct has today that it has opened a second print-to-mail recovery facility in Forth Worth, TX. This will offer the print and insert capacity to complete 1.5 million envelopes per day. With the addition of this facility Mail-Gard's total recovery capacity is now nearly 3 million envelopes per day. Increased capacity is only one benefit of the second location, Mail-Gard can now offer clients the ability to test in the Texas location, saving travel costs and the added benefit of knowing their production can be recovered at either Mail-Gard location. www.mailgard.com
•Date: 10th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: Recovery facilities
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North American IT security spending still on the rise
According to Forrester survey.
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•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Amcom Software receives Department of Defense security approval
Amcom Software has announced that it has successfully received approval from the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) of the US Department of Defense for Amcom’s communications software suite. By achieving JITC approval, Amcom’s Smart Center, Smart Console, Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI), Smart Web, Smart Speech and e.Notify applications have been shown to provide the highest levels of information assurance security as required by the US government and military. www.amcomsoftware.com.
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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JANET(UK) chooses Databarracks to safeguard corporate data
Databarracks has announced the signing of a partnership with JANET(UK). The online backup and disaster recovery MSP will be backing up JANET(UK)'s corporate data at its main headquarters in Didcot as well as several remote sites and laptops in order to protect 2.7 TB of email, databases, and all other business critical data whilst enabling fast and full recovery of their business servers in the event that a disaster strikes.
JANET(UK) is a not-for-profit company which manages the development and operation of the JANET network, which is dedicated to the needs of education and research in the UK. www.databarracks.com
•Date: 5th Sept 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Data Domain enables outsourced disaster recovery services with new partners
Data Domain has announced that service provider partners BluePoint Data Storage, DSS (Distributed Systems Services, Inc.) and Simply Continuous are delivering new disaster recovery service solutions into enterprise customer environments based on Data Domain deduplication storage systems. With Data Domain systems, service providers can help enterprises of all sizes eliminate tape from their operational backup infrastructure and fully automate their data replication processes for a single monthly fee. Read press release.
•Date: 4th September 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Yosemite Technologies partners with Tandberg Data
Yosemite Technologies has announced a partnership with Tandberg Data, which will see a Yosemite custom solution integrated into Tandberg Data’s RDX QuikStor product line and sold by Tandberg Data as RDX FileKeeper. The flexibility inherent in Yosemite’s organisation and product-line were essential in this partnership with Tandberg Data, and underscores Yosemite’s strength as an OEM supplier. Read press release (PDF)
•Date: 2nd September 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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HP completes $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS
HP has announced that it has completed its acquisition of EDS, creating a leading force in technology services. With this acquisition, initially announced on May 13 and valued at an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion, HP has one of the technology industry's broadest portfolios of products, services and end-to-end solutions. The combined offerings are focused on helping clients accelerate growth, mitigate risks and lower costs. Read press release.
•Date: 29th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software supports trend for business continuity managed services
Double-Take Software has announced that a growing number of its partners have launched managed business continuity services in the UK during the first six months of 2008. The services remotely manage the deployment of a Double-Take solution at a customer site, replicating changes to corporate data to a remote data centre in real time and, in the event of failure of production servers, automatically failing-over IT services. The introduction of these services is in line with the growing trend for the channel to offer hosted and managed services to their customers.
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•Date: 29th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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AlarmPoint Systems opens new Asia-Pacific office in Sydney
Crisis communications provider AlarmPoint Systems has announced the opening of its Sydney, Australia office to meet the growing demand for AlarmPoint's Information Delivery platform in the Asia-Pacific region. The new office is located at: Level 9, 123 Epping Road, North Ryde, NSW 2113 Australia Office: +61 2 8875 7871, Fax: +61 2 8875 7814.www.alarmpoint.com
•Date: 29th August 2008• Region: Australia •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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IBM leading business continuity into the cloud
IBM commits $300 million to building a cloud-based business continuity and recovery network.
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•Date: 21st August 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Sentrum announces agreement with SunGard Availability Services UK
Sentrum, a specialist in data centre solutions, has announced that SunGard Availability Services will be taking substantial space in Sentrum’s recently acquired data centre facility in Woking. Initially leasing 25,000 sq ft, the agreement also provides SunGard with the option to double its capacity in the future. www.sentrum.com
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•Date: 21st August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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HP reports third quarter 2008 results
HP has announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2008, with net revenue of $28.0 billion, up 10 percent from a year earlier and up 5 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency. Read the results press release.
•Date: 21st August 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Business Continuity sponsors international women’s rugby
The Northampton (UK) based firm Business Continuity has agreed to sponsor the international invitation women’s rugby team the Nomads.
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•Date: 15th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT Group plc issues interim management statement
Statement focuses on the trading situation of the group’s ICM Business Continuity Division.
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•Date: 14th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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ICM wins contract from Scottish Prison Service
ICM Business Continuity Services has been awarded a contract by the Scottish Prison Service for the provision of an off-site facility to mirror the existing applications and services provided by the Prison Service’s centrally-located server suite at South Gyle. Additionally, ICM will provide 20 workarea seats for Scottish Prison Service
Staff. The seven year contract will cost £135,000 per year. ICM will use its Hamilton facility to service the contract. Sources include
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•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Pilgrims Group to secure SunGard Availability Services Premises across UK
Pilgrims Group has been awarded a contract to provide manned security guarding teams for 16 of SunGard’s 20 UK recovery centre sites. Pilgrims will secure these buildings, providing front-of-house security services, including guarding access control and visitor management. www.pilgrimsgroup.com
•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard announces second quarter 2008 results
SunGard has reported that revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2008 was $1.36 billion, an increase of 15 percent compared to the same period in 2007. Organic revenue (revenue from businesses owned for at least one year, and excluding revenue from businesses sold in the previous twelve months) grew 12 percent compared to the same period in 2007. Read the full results.
•Date: 7th August 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain reports second quarter 2008 financial results
- Revenue and OIBDA up 15 percent for Q2 driven by solid performance across business segments
- Operating income increased 11 percent to $124 million; net income $0.18 per diluted share. Read the results
•Date: 1st August 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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TAMP Systems and ERMS Corporation partner to deliver emergency notification and crisis management services
ERMS Corporation, a provider of emergency notification and crisis management services, has announced a new partnership with TAMP Systems. This agreement helps round out TAMP's business continuity software and consulting services, adding full crisis communications capability to its portfolio.
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•Date: 1st August 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software acquires emBoot, Inc.
Double-Take Software has announced the acquisition of emBoot Inc., experts in network booting technology. The technology acquired with emBootallows organizations to easily assign and re-assign computing workloads to any available Windows or Linux physical servers or desktops or any virtual machine in their environment. IT organizations can now move those workloads around in a matter of minutes, whether it is because a disaster has occurred, a data center is moving, the company has decided to virtualize its infrastructure or an application needs more capacity. www.DoubleTake.com
•Date: 31st July 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Netriplex expands Asheville, NC, data center to offer work-area recovery seats
Netriplex has announced that it is expanding its Asheville, NC, data center facility by 50 percent to offer work-area recovery (emergency office) space.
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•Date: 18th July 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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BCI USA Chapter enters partnership with BSI America
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) USA Chapter and BSI America have joined forces to encourage the adoption of BS 25999 in the country. The partnership will be formally launched in the fall of 2008 in New York City at the first annual BCI USA Chapter workshop, followed by regional events, support for regional continuity and disaster recovery planner events, and other educational forums. In addition to sharing their expertise BCI and BSI will offer cross-partnership discounts on products and training. www.thebci-usa.org www.bsiamerica.com
•Date: 18th July 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard to open new UK business recovery centre
Latest facility will be at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
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•Date: 15th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Onyx Group acquires local IT firm
Fast growing North East England based technology solutions company Onyx Group has formally announced the acquisition of part of a local IT company for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Ponteland based NCS (Newcastle Computer Services), is the second acquisition for Onyx Group this year, after Scotland’s Campbell Lee plc. NCS has forged a strong and well recognised presence in the design and print marketplace, which is dependent on system resilience and recovery. This is a further strategic fit with Onyx Group, which focuses on providing organisations with the infrastructure and facilities to become truly resilient. Onyx owns three workplace recovery facilities, in Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Glasgow. www.onyx.net
•Date: 15th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Whitty to lead Battlebox
After a 27 year career at HP, Jim Whitty has been appointed as managing director of Battlebox Business Continuity Ltd. The company supplies specialist battleboxes to UK organisations. www.battlebox.biz
•Date: 15th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Plan-b to open Hamilton business recovery centre
New Zealand's latest recovery centre will be officially opened on 9th July by Plan-b.
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•Date: 7th July 2008• Region: New Zealand •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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SunGard sells South African operation to the Dialogue Group
R18.5m acquisition will strengthen ContinuitySA offerings.
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•Date: 2nd July 2008• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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UKAS opens up the BS 25999 certification market
UKAS has announced that it is now able to accept new applications from certification bodies wishing to certify companies to BS 25999.
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•Date: 2nd July 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC standards
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New Dell services simplify storage management and data protection
Dell has introduced new infrastructure consulting services to help US organizations of all sizes improve their storage management and data protection, enable effective disaster recovery procedures and implementation of backup recovery processes. These services will help companies better manage traditional data and the new and rapidly growing digital file content created by the increasing adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in business. Read press release.
•Date: 26th June 2008• Region:US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New business continuity & disaster recovery consulting firm opens in Birmingham, AL
Stuart Murray, a former DR/BCP project manager with Comdisco, Inc., has opened Strategic Recovery Solutions (SRS) to provide a range of business continuity and disaster recovery consulting services. Basing the business in the Birmingham, AL, area allows SRS to respond more quickly and efficiently to customers in the Gulf Coast region of the US, while being able to serve customers in other regions.http://www.strategicrecovery.biz
•Date: 20th June 2008• Region:US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Data protection, recovery and replication software demand driving storage software market growth
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 18th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the first quarter of 2008 with revenues of $2.9 billion.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Bob Brennan elected chief executive officer of Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain has announced that its board of directors elected Bob Brennan, 48, president and chief executive officer, making official the elevation first announced in February 2008. He succeeds Richard Reese, who after serving 27 years as CEO, now assumes the new full-time role of executive chairman of the board. Brennan, Iron Mountain's president and chief operating officer since December 2005, was also elected today to the company's board of directors at its annual meeting of stockholders.
•Date: 6th June 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Rontal announces marketing agreement with T&M Protection Resources for North American market
Israel-based Rontal Applications Ltd., a developer and provider of innovative incident management and business continuity systems, has announced a marketing agreement with T&M Protection Resources, a provider of security systems and services. Under the terms of the agreement, Rontal USA and T&M Protection Resources will jointly market Rontal’s advanced incident management system, SimGuard. www.rontal.com
•Date: 4th June 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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HP reports second quarter 2008 results
HP has announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2008, with net revenue of $28.3 billion, up 11 percent from a year earlier and up 5 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency. Read press release.
•Date: 22nd May 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard to acquire Strohl Systems
SunGard has announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Strohl Systems Group, Inc
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•Date: 16th May 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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HP to acquire EDS for $13.9 billion
HP and EDS have announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of calendar year 2008 and to more than double HP's services revenue, which amounted to $16.6 billion in fiscal 2007. Acquiring EDS advances HP's objective of strengthening its services business.
•Date: 15th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT Group plc releases preliminary annual results
Phoenix IT Group saw a large increase in turnover and profits following the acquisition of ICM. Financial highlights of the year to end 31st March 2008 include:
* Revenues up 82.1% to £230.8m (2007: £126.7m)
* Profit from operations before non-recurring items and amortisation of acquired intangibles up 45.4% to £33.0m (2007: £22.7m)
* Profit before tax, non-recurring items and amortisation of acquired intangibles up 20.2% to £25.6m (2007: £21.3m).
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•Date: 15th May 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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PHNS acquires AmeriVault Corp.
PHNS, an information technology and business process service provider focused on the healthcare industry, has announced the acquisition of AmeriVault Corp., a US-based provider of remote online data backup, offsite recovery services, email archiving and data lifecycle solutions. AmeriVault will operate as a PHNS subsidiary together with PHNS' Network Technology Group subsidiary (NTG), which also provides electronic data protection services as well as advanced data center information technology services. AmeriVault will operate with Bud Stoddard, AmeriVault's president, continuing as president, and with AmeriVault's management and employees remaining in their current positions. www.phns.com
•Date: 15th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard announces first quarter 2008 results
SunGard has reported that revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was $1.30 billion, an increase of 17 percent compared to the same period in 2007. Organic revenue grew 13 percent. Income from operations for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was $124 million, an increase of 9 percent compared to the same period in 2007. Read the full statement
•Date: 13th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services agrees strategic partnership with VMware
SunGard will leverage VMware virtualization solutions to help create a suite of simple, fully-managed AdvancedRecovery services.
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•Date: 7th May 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Neverfail sees strong growth
Neverfail has announced that the company grew by 61 percent during the company's fiscal year ending March 31 2008.
Among the company's highlights this year was:
- Signing of a partnership with Vodafone UK, part of the world's leading international mobile telecommunications group, to offer a co-branded service for BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers
- Worldwide expansion into the Middle East, Australia and Asia Pacific
- Significant growth in verticals such as financial services, technology, government, healthcare and manufacturing.
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•Date: 1st May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Dell completes MessageOne acquisition
Dell has announced the completion of its $155 million acquisition of MessageOne, Inc., the provider of enterprise-class e-mail business continuity, compliance, archiving and disaster recovery services.
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•Date: 25th April 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Solcara links up with Catalysts Ltd
Catalysts Ltd have teamed up with Solcara in a deal to develop a range of new products for the business risk management market. As part of the partnership, Solcara will licence its Solcara Communications Centre and Solcara Crisis Control Centre to Catalysts on an OEM basis, for integration into Catalysts’ business risk management application suite, FutureActive. www.solcara.com
•Date: 25th April 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Kroll Ontrack announces continued expansion in Asia Pacific
Kroll Ontrack, a provider of data recovery and legal technologies products and services, has announced the opening of new offices in Singapore and Hong Kong. These are equipped to provide data recovery and computer forensics solutions through their in-lab and cleanroom services, remote service, on-site service, custom service and do-it-yourself software. “Singapore and Hong Kong's strategic geographic locations as regional business hubs in the Asia Pacific region paired with growing data recovery needs in these areas makes them very critical and significant markets,” said Todd Johnson, vice president of operations for Kroll Ontrack. www.ontrackdatarecovery.ca
•Date: 24th April 2008• Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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BDS to launch water-resistant cabinets for UK market
BDS Office Supplies Ltd is to launch a new range of water-resistant cabinets in May 2008 which will help protect vital documents and electronic media in flood-risk areas. The Trident cabinets, manufactured by Schwab in the United States, are the first of their kind in the UK and are only available from BDS. Not only are the cabinets water-resistant, they are also UL (Underwriters’ Laboratories) rated to survive fire, impact, and explosion. The cabinets look no different to a standard filing cabinet and are available in a choice of colours. http://www.bdsoffice.com/schwab.php
•Date: 24th April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Fujitsu becomes first company in Japan to attain BS 25999 certification
Certification was carried out by BSI Management Systems Japan K.K.
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•Date: 16th April 2008• Region: Japan •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Grochowalski joins Monarch Business Resiliency
Monarch Business Resiliency, Inc. has announced that industry veteran John Grochowalski has joined the company as senior director of sales. John has over 25 years experience in the industry and was senior VP of sales at SunGard Planning Solutions. www.monarchresiliency.com
•Date: 16th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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IBM buys Israeli data recovery and back-up solutions company
Globes has reported that IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli company FilesX Inc. FilesX develops data recovery and back-up solutions for business continuity. IBM intends that the FilesX technology will become part of the Tivoli Storage Manager family of products. Read the full story.
•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: Israel •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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EMC to acquire Iomega
EMC Corporation and Iomega Corporation have announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for EMC to acquire San Diego-based Iomega in a cash tender offer of $3.85 per outstanding share, or approximately $213 million. The addition of Iomega’s products, brand name, route to market and industry expertise will enhance EMC’s reach and focus in the rapidly-growing consumer and small business markets. EMC intends to commence the tender offer in the next two weeks, with completion of the tender offer expected in the second quarter of 2008, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
•Date: 11th April 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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AmeriVault celebrates 10th birthday
AmeriVault is celebrating its 10th year as a leader in remote online data backup, offsite storage, and recovery services. In 1998, AmeriVault pioneered disk-based online backup, founded on the idea that backup needs to be automatically secured offsite with the highest reliability. Over the past ten years, AmeriVault has remained committed to its core competency of data protection and recovery while expanding its service portfolio to include solutions that complement its original online backup offering, including advanced virtual recovery, high availability, email archiving, file archiving, and professional services. Since its inception, AmeriVault has experienced double-digit growth year-over-year which has resulted in honors by both the Boston Business Journal and Inc. 5000 for their lists of Fastest Growing Companies. www.amerivault.com
•Date: 8th April 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software to receive Investor in Customers award
Double-Take Software has announced that it has received an ‘outstanding’ level Investor in Customers (IIC) award. This award is designed to reward excellence in customer service as well as to serve as an independent benchmark of achievement. The IIC recognises organisations that create long-term relationships with customers by understanding and consistently exceeding customer expectations of the services provided. www.doubletake.com
•Date: 2nd April 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT Group issues period-end trading update
The board of Phoenix IT Group plc, parent company of the ICM and NDR business continuity companies, has issued a statement saying that trading for the year to 31 March 2008 has been in line with the board's expectations. The company also announced the appointment of Jeremy Stafford as chief executive of the Group.
•Date: 31st March 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Data Centres Europe 2008 Awards short list announced
The judges’ panel deciding Awards for the forthcoming ceremony at the 4th Data Centres Europe event, taking place at the Intercontinental Park Lane, London (10-11 April) have announced the shortlisted companies. In the Best Disaster Recovery Provider Award category the judges selected eBRC (Luxembourg), Equinix and Mainroad (Portugal) for the shortlist.
•Date: 31st March 2008• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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TeleContinuity receives telecommunications carrier license from Japanese government
TeleContinuity, Inc. has announced that it has been granted a Type II Carrier License from the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
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•Date: 20th March 2008• Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Article •Topic: Tel continuity
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College Hill acquires risk management specialist
Business communications consultancy College Hill has announced that it has acquired Razor Public Relations. Razor, founded in 1999, has built a leading reputation in international risk management and business continuity communications, particularly in the food and drinks industry. Chris Woodcock, founder and managing director of Razor, becomes a managing partner at College Hill. She commented: “The risk and crisis management skills of Razor fit perfectly into the practice structure of College Hill. Our clients will benefit from a wider range of services and resources.” http://www.continuitycentral.com/razor.htm
•Date: 20th March 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Worldwide information security spending expected to increase in 2008
According to Cisco study.
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•Date: 11th March 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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New York Bankers Service Corporation selects Strohl Systems to provide business continuity planning software for members
The New York Bankers Service Corporation, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the New York Bankers Association, has announced that Strohl Systems’s PLANet software has been selected as an NYBSCO endorsed vendor. PLANet is the only online business continuity and disaster recovery planning tool designed specifically for community banks. “We are very pleased with the endorsement from NYBSCO,” said Eric Strohl, president of Strohl Systems. “PLANet is used by over 1,200 financial institutions and has been the solution of choice for many community banks in New York already. This agreement frees the way for New York community banks to have easier access to the product.” www.strohlsystems.com/Software/PLANet4Banks
•Date: 11th March 2008• Region:US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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International SOS and Control Risks form joint venture
International SOS and Control Risks have announced the formation of a strategic alliance. The two companies will create a joint operating unit to provide clients with an enhanced portfolio of travel and expatriate security services, which will be progressively introduced from July 2008.
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•Date: 7th March 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain reports fourth quarter and full year 2007 financial results
2007 revenues up 16 percent to $2.73 billion while OIBDA grows 14 percent to $704 million. Quarterly revenues increase 19 percent supported by acquisitions, strong service revenue growth and the 76th consecutive quarter of increased storage revenues. Read the full results
•Date: 29th February 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain to promote Bob Brennan to chief executive officer
Iron Mountain has announced that Bob Brennan, the company's president and chief operating officer, will succeed Richard Reese as Iron Mountain's chief executive officer. Reese notified the company's board of directors of his intention to step down as CEO, a position he has held since December 1981. The succession is set for June 2008.
•Date: 29th February 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SCS reports net profit of S$17.6 m for FY2007
Regional business continuity company Singapore Computer Systems Limited (SCS) has announced that the Group has achieved a net profit of S$17.6 million for its full-year ended December 31, 2007 (FY2007), compared to a net profit of S$7.3 million in FY2006. www.scs.com.sg
•Date: 28th February 2008• Region:SE Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services appoints Steve Lea as UK financial director
SunGard Availability Services has appointed Steve Lea as UK finance and administration director. Mr. Lea will be responsible for providing the financial expertise to drive SunGard’s position in the information availability industry and he will also oversee SunGard’s ongoing investment in its staff and facilities, including its nationwide portfolio of workplace recovery centres. Mr. Lea is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and began his accountancy career with Bristol Meyers Squibb followed by various finance director roles with leading US based technology companies including Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems. Prior to joining SunGard, Mr. Lea spent 10 years at RealNetworks Inc, most recently as general manager of finance and operations for Europe. Mr. Lea will report to SunGard Availability Services’ UK managing director and senior vice president Europe, Keith Tilley. www.sungard.co.uk
•Date: 26th February 2008• Region:UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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New ‘OmniCenter’ recovery facility opened in Navi Mumbai
First of a planned network of recovery centres across India.
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•Date: 22nd February 2008• Region: Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Record results for SunGard
SunGard saw good growth in 2007, with its Availability Services business performing strongly, particularly in the UK.
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•Date: 22nd February 2008• Region: US/UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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MARSH establishes supply chain risk management practice
Marsh has established a Global Supply Chain Risk Management Practice under the leadership of Gary Lynch. It has also set up Supply Chain Consulting and Supply Chain Risk Intelligence subpractices to be led by Ann Grackin and William McBeath, respectively.
•Date: 22nd February 2008• Region: US/UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain delivers PC and server data protection solutions to Australia
Iron Mountain has announced that its Connected Backup for PC and LiveVault server backup solutions are now available directly to Australian businesses and partners via a locally-operated data centre in Sydney, Australia. http://www.ironmtn.com.au
•Date: 22nd February 2008• Region:Australia •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Dynamics of the storage replication software market are shifting
Higher growth expected from host-based and network/appliance-based replication: IDC.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Office-Shadow shakes up leadership team
Office-Shadow has announced that it has significantly expanded and enhanced its executive team with the addition of several key individuals. Included in the list are a new CEO, Group Operations Director, CFO and CTO, as well as a new member of the Board of Directors:
- Nigel Hopkinson has been appointed as chief executive officer;
- Chris Oliver is the new group operations director;
- Phil Becker joins as CTO;
- Simon Maddox, the company co-founder who formerly served as CTO, has now been promoted to chief strategy officer;
- John Haggas joins as CFO;
- John Nicholson has agreed to join the Office-Shadow board of directors.
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•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Vodafone UK Selects Neverfail to offer uninterrupted availability service For Blackberry
Vodafone UK has announced that it has completed a deal with Neverfail. Vodafone will now offer business customers a high availability and disaster recovery service for mobile email using the Neverfail software. www.neverfailgroup.com
•Date: 20th February 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Dell to acquire MessageOne
The acquisition, for approximately $155 million in cash, has been approved by the board of directors of each company and is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
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•Date: 18th February 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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VMware unveils major program enhancements for its virtualization channel partners
VMware has announced major enhancements to the VMware VIP Partner Program, which includes nearly 10,000 partners worldwide. The enhancements, effective immediately, help make it easier for partners to quickly establish or expand their virtualization practices and offer their customers increased value through VMware's virtualization solutions. The enhancements include benefit enhancements for partners participating in the ‘advantage +’ program, additional training options to build their VMware virtualization expertise, and new and improved marketing tools. More details
•Date: 18th February 2008• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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NEC HYDRAstor HS8 named the Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware 'Product of the Year'
NEC Corporation of America has announced that the editors of TechTarget's Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com have recognized its NEC HYDRAstor HS8 grid storage system as the ‘Product of the Year’ in the award’s Backup and Disaster Recovery Hardware category. www.necam.com
•Date: 7th February 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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BT launches ‘Voice Continuity’
A new family of business continuity services for UK voice networks.
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•Date: 5th February 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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IBM completes Arsenal acquisition
Will now be integrated into the Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) business unit in IBM Global Technology Services.
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•Date: 5th February 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Teneros secures further funding
Teneros has announced that it has secured $40 million in late-stage funding. The round was led by Advanced Equities, Inc. (AEI), a financial services company that specializes in late-stage technology investments in the United States. This landmark investment in the application continuity space brings the total capital raised, to drive Teneros' leadership position in the market, to $84.5 million. http://www.teneros.com
•Date: 5th February 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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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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IBM launches Navi Mumbai recovery centre
Initially providing 2,500-seats, the 25,000 sq ft facility has the potential to increase capacity up to 3,500 seats.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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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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Stratus Technologies takes hat trick of awards
Stratus Technologies started off 2008 racking up two awards for its products and one for overall performance as a fault-tolerant technology provider. Stratus won best product/technology in award competitions conducted by Internet Telephony and InfoWorld magazines, and a financial services industry award from American Banker and Financial Insights in their FinTech 100 competition. Read press release (PDF)
•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Cypress Communications wins telecom disaster recovery award
Receives Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award in the field of hosted VoIP solutions for telecom disaster recovery.
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•Date: 25th January 2008• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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CAPS opens new Duluth, Georgia, recovery center
56,000 sqft facility offers work-area recovery seats and data center space.
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•Date: 17th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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BakBone wins DoSTOR's Backup and Recovery Software Product of the Year
BakBone Software has announced that its flagship data protection software has won DoSTOR's 2007 Product of the Year Award for Backup and Recovery Software. This annual awards program is hosted by China's leading online storage publication, DoSTOR.com. DoSTOR's online readers, media editors and industry analysts chose NetVault: Backup 8.0 as the winner ‘for its unparalleled ease of use, flexibility and ease of operation’.www.bakbone.com
•Date: 17th January 2008• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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RiskWatch launches new risk and business continuity consulting service
New division being led by Raymond A. Jean, formerly of IBM Global Services.
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•Date: 15th January 2008• Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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New business continuity software launched
CrisisPro software aimed at enabling insurance brokers to develop business continuity income stream.
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•Date: 15th January 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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Cincinnati Bell acquires GramTel USA
Pays $20 million for disaster recovery and business continuity services provider.
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•Date: 8th January 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software acquires TimeSpring
Extends Double-Take customers' recovery options with ‘any-point-in-time-recovery’ capabilities.
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•Date: 3rd January 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Eze Castle Integration teams with Iron Mountain Digital to provide backup and recovery solution for hedge funds and investment firms
Eze Castle Integration, Inc., a leading provider of technology and IT services to hedge funds and investment firms, has announced a partnership with Iron Mountain Digital to offer ‘Eze Vault’. This combines Eze Castle's IT management services with Iron Mountain Digital's award-winning and secure data backup and recovery infrastructure, allowing firms to easily backup and protect critical information.
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•Date: 11th Dec 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SAVVIS to ensure business continuity of Augustus Asset Managers’ trading systems
SAVVIS has won a £3.5 million contract from Augustus Asset Managers Limited, an independent investment manager of segregated accounts and hedge funds, in a four year IT infrastructure outsourcing deal to support business continuity of Augustus’ critical IT infrastructure. The SAVVIS business continuity offering includes mirrored, dual data centres and an off-site business continuity suite.
•Date: 11th Dec 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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IBM to acquire Arsenal Digital Solutions
Will become part of the Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) business unit.
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•Date: 7th Dec 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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3n awarded crisis messaging contract by CGI
3n (National Notification Network), the mass notification system provider, has announced that CGI Group Inc. will enhance its emergency notification capabilities by deploying the 3n InstaCom system to automate emergency communications with its business units across the US. CGI identified several key criteria during its evaluation process, including a user-friendly application interface, intuitive system administration, efficient message delivery, and real-time reporting tools. After reviewing numerous solutions, CGI selected 3n as the mass notification provider that met their needs. www.3nonline.com
•Date: 7th Dec 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Ixilix to focus on growing demand for certified hosting and disaster recovery services
Philadelphia-based Ixilix has announced that it has completed its transition to a stand-alone business unit dedicated to serving the hosting, business continuity, and disaster recovery needs of the Mid-Atlantic marketplace. Ixilix, a division of Fastech Integrated Solutions LLC, offers application hosting and hot /cold site disaster recovery.
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•Date: 4th Dec 2007• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Xiotech secures $40 million in new financing
Xiotech Corporation, a US-based provider of data storage and business continuity solutions, has announced that Steve Luczo, chairman of the board for Seagate Technology, was elected to Xiotech's board of directors. Xiotech also announced it has completed an investment round, led by Luczo, in excess of $40 million. Xiotech recently announced that it had acquired Seagate's Advanced Storage Architecture (ASA) group. Under the agreement Xiotech acquired certain assets of the ASA business and acquired a license to the associated technology, which Xiotech plans to incorporate into its existing storage solutions. Xiotech will use the new funds to bring these new technologies from Seagate to market. http://www.xiotech.com
•Date: 28th Nov 2007• Region:US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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‘Recovery Site Providers' Statement of Intent’ published
Describes how the UK’s large business continuity providers will maintain their service during a pandemic.
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•Date: 27th Nov 2007• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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New business continuity sales director for ICM
ICM, the business continuity division of the Phoenix IT Group, has announced that Roland Mann has joined the company as its new business continuity sales director.
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•Date: 27th Nov 2007• Region:UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix IT Group publishes interim Results for the six months ended 30 September 2007
- Revenue up 87.1 percent to £101.9m (2006: £54.4m)
- Like-for-like revenues, excluding the effect of acquisitions up 7.7 percent to £58.6m (2006: £54.4m)
- Profit before tax down 18 percent to £7.5m (2006: £9.2m)
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Phoenix has also announced that, from 1 January 2008, Nick Robinson will step down as chief executive and will become non-executive deputy chairman of the group.
•Date: 27th Nov 2007• Region:UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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IBM developing Mumbai recovery centre
Will provide 250 syndicated work area recovery seats.
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•Date: 22nd Nov 2007• Region: Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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3i Infotech launches disaster recovery services in Chennai
3i Infotech has announced the launch of its first International Data Center (IDC), in Chennai, which will offer managed hosting services for application and disaster recovery solutions. Read the story
•Date: 22nd Nov 2007• Region: Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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First companies certified to BS 25999
SunGard Availability Services and TDG plc break new ground.
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•Date: 21st Nov 2007• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Amcom Software and XTEND Communications announce merger
Amcom Software, the provider of mission critical communications software, and XTEND Communications, a long-time provider and innovator in telecommunications, have announced that they have reached an agreement to combine the two companies. The company will offer an expanded product suite to a broader market. Going forward, Amcom will support and enhance both companies' product lines. www.xtend.com www.amcomsoftware.com
•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard third quarter 2007 results
Revenue well up on the same period last year.
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•Date: 13th Nov 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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CIQ/Voisys acquires EmployeeNotification.com
CIQ Inc./Voisys has announced the acquisition of Employee Notification Services Inc; a disaster recovery / business continuity product that can be used by small and medium size businesses to communicate with employees. www.voisys.com
•Date: 13th Nov 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Asia Business Continuity Awards: full results
The first-ever Asia Business Continuity Awards were presented last week at the Seventh Annual Business Continuity Management Conference in Singapore.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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ContinuitySA invests R33m in Midrand Recovery Centre
Company has extended and upgraded its recovery centre in Midrand, South Africa.
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•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:S.Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Iron Mountain continues expansion in Ireland with acquisition of Datastroy
Iron Mountain Incorporated has bought Datastroy, an Irish secure shredding company. The acquisition enables Iron Mountain to offer its customers a complete chain of custody service in Ireland, collecting records in the first instance, through to securely shredding and recycling them at the end of their lifecycle. Iron Mountain will now be able to offer its complete range of records management, data protection and secure shredding services to more than 1,500 customers across the region. www.ironmountain.com
•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Rochester Institute of Technology selects RecoveryPlanner.com and 3n
Following an extensive review, Rochester Institute of Technology has officially selected the combination of 3n’s InstaCom 5.0 mass notification solution and Recovery Planner’s RPX business continuity software to expand RIT’s continuity planning and emergency communications capabilities. www.3nonline.com www.RecoveryPlanner.com
•Date: 2nd Nov 2007 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Agilysys reports unaudited fiscal 2008 second-quarter results
Sales increase 100 percent compared with last year's second quarter; income from continuing operations improves to $1.4 million compared with a loss of $4.8 million a year ago; EPS from continuing operations was $0.05 for the second quarter compared with a loss of $0.16 last year. Go to the results.
•Date: 2nd Nov 2007 • Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Singapore Computer Systems wins inaugural Asia Business Continuity Award
SCS is Business Continuity Provider of the Year (Recovery Site).
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•Date: 1st Nov 2007• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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FalconStor teams with IntelliStorage and I-Tech to provide new business protection and disaster recovery services in the Netherlands
FalconStor Software has announced that its IPStortechnology has been chosen by IntelliStorage and I-Tech, to power Continuity Solutions B.V., their newly formed joint-venture, whose aim is to provide data protection services targeting both enterprise and small and medium-sized businesses in The Netherlands. By incorporating FalconStor technologies into Continuity Center, its SLA delivery platform, Continuity Solutions will automate delivery of its broadband, virtual server and storage infrastructure services, branded under the 'Flexi' and 'Sure' service marks. Read press release.
•Date: 1st Nov 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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World Conference on Disaster Management sold
Diversified Business Communications Canada acquires the event.
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•Date: 30th October 2007• Region: Canada/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Mick Williams to retire
Open invitation to retirement party issued; Counting House pub, Cornhill, City of London on Thursday 6th December – 12 noon.
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•Date: 30th October 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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PlanREADY names Dennis Evans as chief executive officer and chief financial officer
PlanREADY, provider of an integrated solution for risk mitigation and emergency preparedness, has announced that Dennis Evans has joined the company as chief executive officer and chief financial officer. Mr. Evans is the former CEO of Data Transit Corporation, and prior to that the executive vice president, chief financial officer and secretary of Computer Access Technology Corporation. PlanREADY is a privately-held Delaware corporation, headquartered in Morgan Hill, California.
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•Date: 26th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Aggreko LLC and BELFOR USA renew alliance
Aggreko LLC and BELFOR USA have renewed their agreement to provide complete property restoration and disaster recovery support for North American businesses. The agreement will allow Aggreko and BELFOR to continue to provide a single point of contact for business customers in need of a recovery service. Aggreko's temporary power generation and temperature/moisture control systems, combined with BELFOR's specialized emergency response capabilities, ‘provide an arsenal of cost-effective, time-sensitive solutions for industrial, commercial and residential emergency needs’. Aggreko and BELFOR provide local support through a network of over 50 Aggreko service centers and 70 BELFOR offices across North America. http://www.aggreko.com
•Date: 26th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard Availability Services makes senior appointment
Eric Berg becomes group chief executive officer.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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AIG Small Business adds Agility Recovery Solutions to the AIG Edge small business resource
AIG Small Business has announced the addition of Agility Recovery Solutions to the roster of companies participating in The AIG Edge. The AIG Edge is a compilation of services designed exclusively for small business owners and their employees. Agility's business recovery solution, ReadySuite, was chosen to be a part of The AIG Edge because of its proven reliability in business continuity plans across North America. www.aigsmallbusiness.com
•Date: 19th October 2007• Region:N.America •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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IBM to open Cork business continuity centre
Official launch on Thursday 8 November 2007.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region:W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure wins VARBusiness Tech Innovator of the Year 2007 Award
FalconStor Software has announced that it has been recognized for outstanding achievement in technological innovation. VARBusiness magazine has selected FalconStor as a Tech Innovator Company of the Year for the company's new FalconStor Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure in the storage category of its 2007 Tech Innovator Awards competition. www.falconstor.com
•Date: 11th Oct 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets and companies
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NEC and Foreseeson partner to bring integrated application and data disaster recovery software to Canada
NEC and Foreseeson Technology, a Canadian distributor of IT infrastructure products, are partnering to make NEC ExpressCluster broadly available to Canadian value-added resellers (VARs). Canadian resellers can use ExpressCluster for easy to deploy and cost-effective system continuity solutions for industry standard database, e-mail, and virtualization applications and platforms. George Wu, director of Software Business, IT Platform Group, NEC said: "NEC is looking forward to our partnership with Foreseeson to deliver the advanced training, marketing, sales and technical support needed for Canadian-based value-added resellers to take advantage of this family of powerful high availability and disaster recovery software solutions."
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•Date: 11th Oct 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets and companies
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Peak 10 named finalist for 2007 NCTA 21 Awards
Peak 10, the US-based independent data center operator and managed services provider, has been named a finalist in the Top Customer Service Company of the Year category for the 2007 NCTA 21 Awards. Winners will be recognized at the annual awards gala on Thursday, November 15 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Cary, N.C. www.peak10.com
•Date: 9th Oct 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets and companies
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Energy resilience expert joins Steelhenge
UK-based business continuity consultancy Steelhenge has appointed Michael Gilbert, formerly head of emergency planning for National Grid and subsequently responsible for energy resilience at the UK Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR), to head up its Energy & Utility Resilience Services practice. www.steelhenge.co.uk
•Date: 5th October 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain expands in South Africa
Company partners with Channel Data to offer PC data protection, e-mail continuity and e-mail archiving services in the region.
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•Date: 4th October 2007• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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CA and Deft provide business continuity for Tourism Ireland
CA has announced the delivery of a complete recovery management system for Tourism Ireland. The solution was implemented in partnership with Deft, a provider of IT professional services in Ireland. The business continuity and data protection solution enables Tourism Ireland to minimise disruption to global marketing campaigns, increase staff productivity and provide a secure platform for growth into emerging markets. The solution uses CA XOsoft WANSync and replicates all of Tourism Ireland's critical e-mail data. Tourism Ireland estimates that CA's solution can recover over 230 gigabytes of e-mail data in less than one hour; this would have taken up to three days prior to the deployment. More information on the CA recovery management system.
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•Date: 4th October 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing•Topic: IT continuity
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CAPS plans new recovery facilities
New sites to be developed in Shelton, CT and Duluth, GA.
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•Date: 20th Sept 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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NDR is a finalist in National Business Awards
UK business continuity company up for ‘The Cable & Wireless Award for Customer Focus’.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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LINK Associates acquired by SEACOR
Well known independent UK business continuity consultancy company bought out.
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•Date: 13th Sept 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets and companies
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Double-Take Software launches ‘Recovery Consulting Services’
Includes ‘staff augmentation’ service.
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•Date: 6th Sept 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Hitachi launches new Australia and New Zealand division
Hitachi Data Systems has formed a Business Consulting Practice for Australia and New Zealand. It will focus on data lifecycle management; storage economics; service management; consolidation and virtualisation, and business continuity and risk. Read the IT News story
•Date: 4th Sept 2007• Region: NZ/Aus•Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Double-Take Software rolls out local availability and support services to India and Sri Lanka
Double-Take Software has announced that Ontrack Solutions has become a distributor in India and Sri Lanka. This agreement will make it easier for organisations based in these countries to purchase Double-Take Software solutions. Resellers with an interest in partnering with Double-Take Software in India and Sri Lanka should contact Ontrack. For more information please visit www.ontrackin.com
•Date: 4th Sept 2007• Region: Various •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Neverfail appoints regional director for Middle East and Africa region
The Neverfail Group has announced the appointment of Basem Al Kayuali as regional director for its Middle East and Africa operations. In his new position, Al Kayuali will lead the company's expansion plan in the region through local resellers and distributors. Prior to joining Neverfail, Al Kayuali worked with Symantec Ltd. as regional business development manager for the Middle East and emerging markets. http://www.neverfailgroup.com
•Date: 31st Aug 2007• Region: Various •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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FS-ISAC selects MessageOne for emergency notification
MessageOne has announced that it has been selected by the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) to offer the AlertFind emergency notification service to a membership of more than 4,000 financial institutions. Since signing on as a customer six months ago, FS-ISAC has utilized AlertFind to communicate urgent security information to its members. Extending the relationship will make it easier for financial services member organizations to protect employees. www.messageone.com
•Date: 29th Aug 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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CYA Technologies secures second round funding
CYA Technologies, which claims to be the leader in solutions ensuring the integrity, discrete recoverability, and asynchronous replication of information within enterprise content management (ECM) repositories, has announced that it has received $3 million in a second round of funding. The majority of the funding includes a Series B equity round led by investors H.I.G. Ventures and Connecticut Innovations. This incremental investment will be used to fortify the company's position as the leader in discrete information recovery solutions for the fast-growing ECM market. www.cya.com
•Date: 24th August 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard completes VeriCenter acquisition
Deal will add seven US data centers to SunGard’s portfolio.
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•Date: 22nd August 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Neverfail gets THE SAK
The Neverfail Group has won a contract from fashion company THE SAK to support mission critical e-mail communications. THE SAK's sales, design, product development, manufacturing, inventory and shipping divisions depend on the company's e-mail environment to conduct business in 22 international markets. To keep its critical e-mail communications with designers, suppliers and vendors up and running, The SAK is using Neverfail SCOPE and Neverfail for Microsoft Exchange technology. http://www.neverfailgroup.com
•Date: 22nd August 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Peak 10 enters Atlanta market
Peak 10, Inc., has announced the acquisition of a 33,000 square foot facility in the Atlanta, Georgia suburb of Norcross. Peak 10 Atlanta is currently being upgraded and will be fully operational in September 2007. Peak 10's expansion has capitalized upon the growing trend in the business community to outsource IT infrastructure; increasing awareness of the need for business continuity and disaster recovery services; increasing demand for managed IT services; and meeting regulatory compliance demands. www.peak10.com
•Date: 10th August 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard announces second quarter 2007 results
SunGard has reported that revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2007 was $1.18 billion, an increase of 10 percent over revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2006. Availability Services revenue increased 4 percent, all of which was organic, to $352 million for the quarter. Read the results statement.
•Date: 10th August 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Former Survive Membership Services director joins ICM
Clare Wilson, the former director of Membership Services & Consultancy at Survive has joined the management team at ICM. Clare who had previous roles at Guardian IT/SunGard and has over ten years experience in market and product development within the business continuity industry will be responsible for ICM’s branding, product development and launches, customer communications and event management. ICM was recently acquired by Phoenix IT.
•Date: 10th August 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Changes at the top at Strohl Systems
Brian Turley appointed to CEO and Eric Strohl to president.
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•Date: 9th August 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix Chief Executive sells 2 million shares
On 7 August 2007 Nick Robinson, chief executive of Phoenix, sold 2.0 million ordinary shares in the company at 445 pence per share. The total number of shares disposed represents 2.7 percent of the Phoenix's issued share capital. Following the disposal, Nick Robinson's interest in the company is over 4.16 million ordinary shares, representing 5.6 percent of the company's issued share capital. Nick Robinson commented, “I have sold these shares for personal reasons. I remain a significant shareholder in the business and have undertaken to the board not to make any further sales of shares in Phoenix for at least 18 months.”
•Date: 9th August 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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WHISPIR launches in New Zealand
Whispir provides an ‘intelligent messaging platform’ that structures, automates and logs the delivery of voice, e-mail, web, mobile data and SMS message.
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•Date: 9th August 2007• Region: New Zealand •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Phoenix wins its largest ever business continuity contract
Based around recovery services which will be provided by Phoenix’s new Farnborough business continuity centre.
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•Date: 7th August 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Springfield, Australia, to get two new disaster recovery centres
Two competing facilities to open.
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•Date: 7th August 2007• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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Dialogue Group to acquire majority holding in Continuity SA
Call centre operator Dialogue Group has announced that is to acquire 51 percent of the shares of South Africa based business continuity specialist Continuity SA for R41m.
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•Date: 3rd August 2007• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain reports second quarter 2007 financial results
* 15 percent revenue growth;
* Operating income before depreciation and amortization grows 11 percent to $172 million and net income is $39 million, or $0.19 per diluted share;
* The Company raises full year financial outlook to reflect first half performance and the impact of acquisitions. Read the results statement
•Date: 3rd August 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Weyerhaeuser selects HP
HP has announced it has signed a seven-year global IT services contract to run, manage and support the distributed IT environment of Weyerhaeuser Company, an international forest products company. Under the contract, HP will provide Weyerhaeuser a single point of contact for client and server management, software and storage management, business continuity and availability and disaster recovery solutions, as well as mission critical technical support and lifecycle management services.
•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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IBM reports 2007 second-quarter results
* Total revenues of $23.8 billion, up 9 percent;
* Global Services revenues up 10 percent, software revenues up 13 percent;
* Diluted earnings of $1.55 per share, including a gain from sale of Printing Systems; earnings per share were $1.50, up 15 percent without the gain.
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•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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MIR3 to provide OEM emergency notifications for COOP Systems
MIR3 has signed an OEM agreement with COOP Systems which will allow COOP Systems' myCOOP business continuity management software package to be offered in combination with the MIR3 global enterprise communication infrastructure. This will allow COOP Systems to provide a powerful, seamless, real-time solution that quickly and effectively sends alerts and gathers responses when a critical event occurs. www.coop-systems.com www.mir3.com
•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: World •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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SunGard to acquire VeriCenter
VeriCenter resources complement SunGard’s business continuity and production hosting solutions.
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•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Westlin and Zogmo collaborate to provide dual data center IT continuity solution
Geographically diverse data centers provide resiliency.
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•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Teneros wins Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program award
Teneros has won the Partner of the Year Award for OEM Hardware, Device Manufacturing at the 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners for delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology. The awards were distributed at a ceremony on July 11 in Denver, Colo. at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. "Microsoft's award for our Application Continuity Appliances that protect business critical Microsoft Exchange communications is one of the company's most significant achievements since it was founded," said Teneros CEO Steve Lewis. http://www.teneros.com
•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Neverfail appoints new EMEA Channel Director
The Neverfail Group has announced the appointment of Richard Ruddlesden to a new company position as EMEA Channel Director. Ruddlesden has served in a variety of channel and sales positions in the UK during the past 20 years. He will work closely with Nick Harmer, VP of Channel and Sales Development, to extend the company's channel focus and partner relationships. Most recently, Ruddlesden was EMEA Channel Sales Director for Tideway Systems Ltd. where he was instrumental in establishing success across continental Europe.
•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Iron Mountain opens in Greece
Iron Mountain has established its first presence in the Greek market with the acquisition of a minority interest in SafeDoc, an Athens-based records and information management company. The company will operate as a joint venture with Iron Mountain holding options to acquire further shares in the company over the next five years.
•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Virtualization services market to reach $11.7 billion by 2011
According to IDC.
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•Date: 12th July 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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DRI Asia Pte Ltd and DRII part company
DRI Asia Pte Ltd has announced that as of July 1 it no longer represents the Disaster Recovery Institute International.
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•Date: 11th July 2007• Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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InMage Systems announces Series B funding round
InMage Systems, Inc., the US-based provider of business continuity and disaster recovery CDP software for medium and large enterprises, has announced that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. The round was led by a strategic corporate partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and Kumar Malavalli, InMage chairman and chief strategy officer. http://www.inmage.net
•Date: 11th July 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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TAMP Systems RiskWatch, Inc. agree partnership
TAMP Systems and RiskWatch, Inc. of Maryland have announced that they have agreed a partnership that will allow customers to buy special combination products that include both the full RiskWatch risk assessment software, as well as TAMP's business continuity and disaster recovery planning software. This partnership ensures that organizations will receive the full benefit of having risk assessment results to feed the business continuity and disaster recovery planning effort. http://www.tampsystems.com http://www.RiskWatch.com
•Date: 6th July 2007• Region: US•Type: Briefing •Topic: BC software
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