Business continuity briefs:
27th September 2007

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

Major disaster declared for Illinois
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Illinois to help people and communities recover from the effects of severe storms and flooding during the period of August 20-31, 2007. http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=41070

Mumbai police recover six bombs; city on high alert
Mumbai police have recovered six crude bombs from outside the Andheri station and security has been increased across the city as a result. Read the story.

New release of Syncsort Backup Express offers end-to-end data protection and disaster recovery solution
Syncsort's new release of Backup Express offers ‘unprecedented data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities’. It not only offers a disk-to-disk (D2D) solution but also disk-to- disk-to-tape (D2D2T) for archiving to tape, as well as automated failover to tape in the event of a recovery interruption. Read press release.

ExaGrid 3.0 disk-based backup system with data de-duplication now available
ExaGrid Systems has announced the availability of ExaGrid 3.0. This new product version provides up to twice the backup and restore performance of previous versions, as well as scalability for a 20 TB full backup, plus retention, in a single GRID system. ExaGrid has also reduced its system footprint by 50 to 75 percent compared to previous versions. Read press release

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

Uganda floods

•Date: 27th September 2007• Region: Various