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Business continuity briefs:
19th - 20th April 2007

'Business continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services press releases and other useful resources published in the last 24 hours.

Vote for the Business Continuity Personality of the Year
CIR magazine is encouraging people to vote for the Business Continuity Personality of the Year, one of the awards it will present as part of Business Continuity Awards 2007. Shortlisted this year are Mike Osborne, managing director of ICM, and Vikrant Varshney of Fidelity Investments in India. Click here to vote (deadline 29th April).

Mastering Business Continuity Practices
24th & 25th May 2007, The Taj Lands End, Mumbai
Marcus Evan’s practical business continuity management course is a comprehensive program that ensures that you are in a well-placed position to develop, strategize, and implement your organization’s business continuity management in a timely, efficient, and cost-effective manner. For more information, please contact lima@marcusevanskl.com

A quarter of organisations fail to enforce a wireless security policy
A survey by Infosecurity Europe of 320 companies has found that 26 percent of organisations do not enforce a wireless security policy. At Infosecurity Europe 2007 the subject of wireless security will be covered in a number of keynotes and seminars. www.infosec.co.uk

‘The Big Picture in Disaster Recovery’
Silver Peak Systems has announced that it has teamed up with Double-Take Software and VMware to discuss how to ‘put the pieces together’ for an effective disaster recovery plan. On April 25, 2007 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), the companies will discuss new trends in data protection technology that span all areas of IT, citing specific examples of how real-world customers have put combined DR solutions into practice for improved business continuity. Register for the event

SteelEye Technology announces Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure 3
SteelEye has announced the expansion of its product set with the immediate availability of SteelEye Protection Suite for VMware Infrastructure 3, built on breakthrough technology which supports clustering together physical and virtual servers for high availability, continuous data protection and disaster recovery. http://www.steeleye.com

TDi unveils secure, reliable disaster recovery solution
TECSys Development, Inc. (TDi), the provider of enterprise event monitoring and management solutions, has announced that ConsoleWorks 3.4 will include Secure Recovery, the latest addition to its business continuity suite of products. Secure Recovery continuously backs up all ConsoleWorks data and securely transmits it to a recovery server. If disaster destroys the primary ConsoleWorks server, then the recovery server takes over. For more information email info@tditx.com

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

Sudden sea level surges threaten 1 billion - study

India's monsoon rains expected to be near normal

Drought-hit Australia to stop irrigating food bowl

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Date: 19th - 20th April 2007• Region: Various




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