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Business continuity briefs:
11th December 2007

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

Defra publishes contingency plan for exotic animal diseases
Defra's Exotic Animal Disease Generic Contingency Plan has been laid before Parliament. The plan is amended annually and is produced for Defra by the UK Animal Health agency. It includes an overarching plan for dealing with a range of exotic animal diseases, as well as plans for responding to specific diseases including Foot and Mouth Disease, Avian Influenza and, for the first time, Rabies and Bluetongue. The Contingency Plan can be accessed here.

Eze Castle Integration teams with Iron Mountain Digital to provide backup and recovery solution for hedge funds and investment firms
Eze Castle Integration, Inc., a leading provider of technology and IT services to hedge funds and investment firms, has announced a partnership with Iron Mountain Digital to offer ‘Eze Vault’. This combines Eze Castle's IT management services with Iron Mountain Digital's award-winning and secure data backup and recovery infrastructure, allowing firms to easily backup and protect critical information. www.eci.com

SAVVIS to ensure business continuity of Augustus Asset Managers’ trading systems
SAVVIS has won a £3.5 million contract from Augustus Asset Managers Limited, an independent investment manager of segregated accounts and hedge funds, in a four year IT infrastructure outsourcing deal to support business continuity of Augustus’ critical IT infrastructure. The SAVVIS business continuity offering includes mirrored, dual data centres and an off-site business continuity suite.

US disaster declarations
President Declares Emergency Disaster For Oklahoma
President Declares Major Disaster for Washington
President Declares Major Disaster for Oregon

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

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Date: 11th December 2007• Region: Various




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