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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published in the last
24 hours.
Safeguarding Australia has reported that the Geoscience Australia ‘operations hub’ of the Australian Tsunami Warning Centre (ATWC) has been opened in Canberra. This will detect earthquakes in the region and determine whether they are likely to cause a tsunami by examining the magnitude, location, depth and other seismic characteristics. The Bureau of Meteorology will collect tide gauge data, and the two agencies would work together to determine whether a tsunami warning should be issued.
According to the New Zealand Herald, the reliability of the country's civil defence emergency warning system is under question as the upgrade of a key part of it has been relegated to the backburner. Read the story
NDR has won a substantial three year contract for providing disaster recovery and business continuity services to the UK sites of Wolseley, the supplier of construction products, materials and services. The contract includes many of NDR’s flexible recovery options, including mobile recovery units, off-load of equipment to a customer location, remote connectivity or re-location to an NDR business recovery centre.
XLink Technology Inc. a software developer in business continuity and data protection solutions, has announced the release of ClusterReplica Enterprise 1.2. Based on pure-CDP technology, ClusterReplica Enterprise combines conventional high availability solutions and Microsoft DPM-like functions. Besides providing failover/failback functions for disaster recovery, ClusterReplica Enterprise offers centralized data management and end-user self restore of multiple versions of files during normal operation. www.xlink.com
FEMA daily SITREP
Russia's St Petersburg fights unseasonal floods
•Date: 12th January 2007• Region: Various
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