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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.
Cranberry (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania on March 6, 2007, and Arlington, Virginia, on March 14, 2007.
AlarmPoint Systems has announced that limited space remains for two free seminars on ‘How to optimize your incident management processes’. For more details visit the links below:
www.alarmpoint.com/march6
www.alarmpoint.com/march14
KBC Peel Hunt, a London-based investment bank, has implemented a fully managed, integrated business continuity and voice recording system from GemaTech which provides seamless voice communication, whilst also enabling trading floor telephone conversations to be used as definitive court evidence in the case of dispute resolution. Initially, KBC Peel Hunt was looking for a business continuity system that would instantaneously and seamlessly recover 100 percent of its incoming calls and intelligently re-route them to alternative numbers. However, it soon realised that further commercial advantage could be obtained by combining a digital voice recording module with a business continuity solution and then extending the service throughout the whole company including its trading floor. FSA regulations demand that all trading floor telephone conversations are recorded to document customer interactions for verification and compliance purposes, and in the case of dispute resolution, to provide definitive court evidence. More information
GWAVA, Novell's largest GroupWise partner, has announced the launch of Reload v2, Disaster Recovery for Novell GroupWise. Reload is the first disaster recovery solution focused exclusively on GroupWise. Reload allows e-mail administrators the ability to recover data immediately from backup and to implement push button disaster recovery in times of crisis. Read press release (PDF).
BakBone Software has launched NetVault: Backup APM for MySQL v3.0. This offers an enterprise class business continuity solution for MySQL mission critical applications while providing automated and simplified administration capabilities. Read press release.
The Business Continuity Planning Workgroup for Healthcare Organizations (BCPWHO) recently completed the implementation of Amcom e.Notify as their standard notification system. BCPWHO will use the software system as a notification source to issue urgent communications to its members - emergency managers and business continuity planners in healthcare. Amcom, a developer of mission-critical communication systems for healthcare, is a BCPWHO sponsor. www.amcomsoftware.com
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released $194 million to help states and local governments prepare and implement emergency management activities through the Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) program. State emergency management agencies use EMPG funds to enhance their emergency management capabilities in a range of areas that include planning, equipping, and training, conducting exercises, and providing for all-hazards emergency management operations. In addition, EMPG funds are used to pay for personnel who write plans, conduct training and exercise programs, maintain emergency response programs, and educate the public on disaster readiness. FY 2007 Emergency Management Performance Grant Allocations
Dr Nout Wellink, president of the Netherlands Bank and chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has made a speech with the above title at the GARP 2007 8th Annual Risk Management Convention and Exhibition. Read the full text at http://www.bis.org/review/r070228a.pdf
Asigra has announced that its Televaulting software is the first agentless Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) data protection solution to support IBM iSeries-AS/400 server environments. This enables organisations with these computing platforms to benefit from the industry’s most powerful backup and recovery solution for remote and branch offices throughout the enterprise. Read press release.
SunGard Availability Services has published a new e-book which explores in detail the options for getting your business back in business after any disaster. Chapters include explanations of tape-based strategies; electronic backup strategies; advanced recovery strategies; and testing. Download a PDF copy.
FEMA daily SITREP
World weather impacts
Lethal US tornado swarm causes widespread damage
• Nine tornado deaths in Georgia
• Seven die in Alabama twister; five at Enterprise High School
• One fatality blamed on tornado in Missouri
Read CNN story.
Bolivians struggle to cope with devastating flooding
Six million Chinese face water shortages
•Date: 1st - 2nd March 2007• Region: Various
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