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TAMP Systems and RiskWatch, Inc. of Maryland have announced that they have agreed a partnership that will allow customers to buy special combination products that include both the full RiskWatch risk assessment software, as well as TAMP's business continuity and disaster recovery planning software. This partnership ensures that organizations will receive the full benefit of having risk assessment results to feed the business continuity and disaster recovery planning effort. http://www.tampsystems.com http://www.RiskWatch.com
dbaDIRECT, a provider of ‘managed services for data infrastructure’, has announced that it has upgraded the company's disaster recovery capability by adding a redundant backup facility in the state-of-the-art Vora Technology Park. Located in Hamilton, Ohio, Vora Technology Park is equipped with an advanced fiber optic infrastructure and multiple systems to ensure against a loss of power to the data center. The center has also been designed to withstand the worst of disasters. Its windows are made of bulletproof material and the roof system can survive winds of more than 120 mph. The center's advanced fire detection system is capable of detecting smoke and heat sources as slight as a single match. This new facility backs up dbaDIRECT's headquarters in Florence Kentucky, and Bangalore India. www.dbadirect.com
Jim Burtles, KLJ, MMLJ, FBCI, Automata’s Head of Training, is one of the business continuity profession’s longest-serving practitioners. He has now captured a careers-worth of thoughts, ideas and enthusiasm for business continuity into a book aimed at the serious student of the subject. ‘The Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques’ was launched earlier this week by Rothstein Associates. For full details see: www.rothstein.com/new/nr800.htm The first batch should be in the UK in time to go on display at Automata’s International Business Continuity Summer School to be held between 30 and July and 3 August in Northamptonshire, see: http://www.businesscontinuitytraining.co.uk/
World weather impacts
Monsoon rains worst in 25 years
Over the past month, more than 1.5 million people have been affected by storms, tornados and landslides in Bangladesh, in what has been described as the worst monsoon season in 25 years. Heavy monsoon rains also are making life miserable for people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
•Date: 6th July 2007• Region: Various
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