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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.
The IMF has published a working paper to generate debate concerning stress testing. Stress testing is a useful and increasingly popular, yet sometimes misunderstood, method of analyzing the resilience of financial systems to adverse events. This paper aims to help demystify stress tests, and illustrate their strengths and weaknesses. The paper costs US$18.00 and can be downloaded from http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=20222.0
The world’s urban infrastructure needs a $40 trillion makeover say Booz Allen vice presidents Viren Doshi and Gary Schulman and principal Daniel Gabaldon in an article in strategy+business magazine. The authors estimate that by 2050, for the first time in history, more than 50 percent of humanity will be living in metropolitan areas. The next generation of cities will require much more than incremental improvements to infrastructure. Instead, the authors call for the public and private sectors to join forces in addressing the transportation, energy, and water crises in tandem with a comprehensive strategy. They conclude that cities that organize infrastructure effectively ‘will become centers of growth and innovation for the farsighted companies of the next 100 years.’ Read the story.
Xiotech Corporation has announced that its TimeScale Replication Services were awarded the ‘Most Innovative Data Protection Application’ at the 1st Annual Data Protection Summit. The best of show awards are judged on product uniqueness compared to competitor offerings and each product's expected future significance. With TimeScale Replication Services, an organization's vital data is replicated continuously to Xiotech's secure data center and can be easily recovered if needed. The summit was held from March 12-15, 2007, at the Irvine/Orange County, California Airport Hilton Hotel. http://www.xiotech.com
ETS has selected MessageOne to provide email continuity and emergency notification services. The world’s foremost educational testing organization, ETS develops, administers and scores more than 24 million tests annually in more than 180 countries and 9,000 locations worldwide. Because ETS has a complex and widely dispersed operation, it is critical that the organization is able to maintain email continuity and effective, real-time communications during emergencies and crises. Following an extensive evaluation of email continuity and emergency notification solutions, ETS picked MessageOne’s EMS Email Continuity and AlertFind for emergency notification. www.messageone.com
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a pandemic influenza preparedness plan that defines the agency's current role in federal pandemic planning, such as expediting the review of new vaccines and antivirals, and spells out work it will do in areas such as food safety and targeting counterfeit drugs. The plan addresses six major areas: vaccines, antiviral medications, medical devices, food and feed safety, emergency preparedness and response, and enforcement.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/op/pandemic/strategicplan03_07.html
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World weather impacts
NOAA announces US spring outlook
Scientists at NOAA highlighted near term flooding in portions of the Midwest and Ohio Valley and continued drought in the Southwest as areas of concern from April through June in the agency’s 2007 Spring Outlook.
•Date: 16th March 2007• Region: Various
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