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Four of the technology industry’s leading vendors – Hitachi Data Systems, Juniper, Sun Microsystems, and Symantec – recently hit the road to undertake an initiative to educate Saudi’s business community on the benefits of a comprehensive business continuity strategy. Focusing on how corporations can overcome operational failures, the four technology vendors stopped in Saudi Arabia’s three main cities – Riyadh, Jeddah, and Al Khobar – to meet with decision makers and brief them on the latest strategies and technologies used to ensure business continuity. Read the IT Arabia story.
Brocade has announced ‘new breakthroughs’ that ‘allow IBM mainframe customers to dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of data center and disaster recovery solutions’. The new Brocade solution - enabled via a recent software release on its storage area network director, switch, and router products - allows System z customers to utilize cost-effective IP wide-area-network links to transmit FICON data over long distances. Read press release
Channel Web Network has reported that EMC has acquired Indigo Stone International, a UK-based developer of software for business continuity, server migration and bare metal recovery. The acquisition closed in March, but EMC has not publicly announced it. Indigo Stone was formed in 1996 as RISC Contingency Services. Read the story
World weather impacts
Major disaster declared in Kansas
Federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Kansas to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding beginning on May 4, 2007, and continuing. President Bush's disaster declaration makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Kiowa County.
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=36030
•Date: 9th May 2007• Region: Various
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