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Business continuity briefs:
3rd August 2007

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

2007 Emergency & Business Continuity Management Course
TORONTO: September 25th and 26th 2007
OTTAWA: September 27th and 28th 2007

This intensive, two-day, hands on course, lead by Jayne Howe, FBCI, MRP, CBRM, will give delegates information and tools to enable the creation of a business continuity plan. Illustrations and examples used in this course will be based on delegates’ own organization’s needs. For more information and to register for the event, please click here. Register before August 27 and save $100.

Market-wide Exercise seminar resources
On 19 July 2007 over 120 delegates from a wide range of organisations attended a seminar in London to share the lessons learnt during the 2006 Market-wide Exercise about business response to a pandemic. A PowerPoint giving details of the various presentations and resources made available at the event is available here.

Asigra launches 64-bit native agentless data protection solution for virtual server backup
Asigra Inc. is addressing the growing challenge of protecting virtualized server environments with the launch of what it says is the industry’s only 64-bit powered agentless backup with N+1 grid-based architecture for unlimited scalability. Read press release

Iron Mountain reports second quarter 2007 financial results
* 15 percent revenue growth;
* Operating income before depreciation and amortization grows 11 percent to $172 million and net income is $39 million, or $0.19 per diluted share;
* The Company raises full year financial outlook to reflect first half performance and the impact of acquisitions. Read the results statement

Nine out of ten UK car dealers have no disaster recovery plan
Nine out of 10 UK car dealers do not have a disaster recovery plan, according to a survey by Pinewood, a dealer management system provider. The biggest business continuity issue facing car dealerships is loss of data.

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

Typhoon buffets Southwestern Japan

Millions hit by South Asia floods

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Date: 3rd August 2007• Region: Various




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