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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.
SunGard and TradeTech, a research firm, have announced that according to the firms’ joint MiFID readiness survey, only 13 percent of financial services firms are confident that they are on track to meet new MiFID regulations. Over 60 percent of respondents indicated that their preparations for the directive still required some work, despite the rapidly approaching November deadline. www.sungard.com/mifid
The information security ‘guru’ Bruce Schneier gave a joint BCS and London School of Economics public lecture as part of this year's 50th anniversary celebrations. He outlined ten trends that were changing the landscape of information security, and how viewing these trends in economic terms could help unravel some of the paradoxes of practical information security. Listen to the lecture here.
Avocent has launched what it says is the industry's first dual analog KVM matrix switching system. The AMX switching system, with redundancy and automatic failover, helps ensure continuous connectivity to critical IT systems. This enhancement, available at no additional cost to most existing AMX switching system owners, improves business continuity by allowing users to stay connected to critical IT assets even if a matrix switch fails. www.avocent.com
World weather impacts
Southern New Hampshire sees second 100-year flood in 12 months
100-year flooding hit seven rivers across southern New Hampshire last week, just one year since a previous such flooding event.
Major disaster declared for new Jersey
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of New Jersey to help people and communities recover from the effects of severe storms and inland and coastal flooding during the period of April 14-20, 2007. http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=35712
Major disaster declared for Texas
To supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and tornadoes during the period of April 21-24, 2007.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=35891
Major disaster declared for West Virginia
To supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides during the period of April 14-18, 2007. http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=35882
•Date: 27th April - 2nd May 2007• Region: Various
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