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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 June and July floods that gripped parts of the UK could cost insurers between £2.25 billion and £3.25 billion in total, according to latest estimates by Risk Management Solutions. Insured losses from the July flood are likely to be between £1.0 billion and £1.5 billion, with the estimated cost of the 25 June flood ranging from £1.25 billion to £1.75 billion. These figures could be higher than many insurers expected, based on their initial estimates of the risk.
The Neverfail Group has announced the immediate availability of Neverfail for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to its suite of continuous availability solutions. Among the benefits of Neverfail for SharePoint is its ability to protect and failover a SharePoint technology server over a wide-area connection (WAN). In addition, Neverfail offers protection for individual SharePoint technology servers within server farms allowing immediate out-of-the box protection without any server rebuild. http://www.neverfailgroup.com
HP has announced it has signed a seven-year global IT services contract to run, manage and support the distributed IT environment of Weyerhaeuser Company, an international forest products company. Under the contract, HP will provide Weyerhaeuser a single point of contact for client and server management, software and storage management, business continuity and availability and disaster recovery solutions, as well as mission critical technical support and lifecycle management services.
The floods that hit the UK this month have highlighted the benefits of business continuity and disaster recovery planning over ad hoc responses. Read the Computer Weekly story.
Tuesday 25th September 2007, 9.30am – 4.45pm, Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre.
This event is designed to introduce business continuity to businesses which are new to the subject. www.scottishcontinuitygroup.com
World weather impacts
Central China braces for biggest flood crest of Yangtze River
•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: Various
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