Business continuity briefs:
13th 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.

Mimosa Systems rolls out flexible disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Exchange environments
Mimosa Systems has announced the Mimosa NearPoint Disaster Recovery Option, providing automated disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange environments to maintain application consistency, integrity and uptime. Using the disaster recovery module, enterprise users have the option of recovering Exchange services to a local or remote Exchange Server for rapid recovery in minutes. Read press release.

Automotive risk benchmark report
Marsh's Automotive Practice has produced a new annual benchmark study, which compares the risk management and insurance programs of more than 190 buyers of insurance products in the automotive industry in the United States. Marsh's Automotive Risk Benchmark Report is intended to be a supplemental resource to help its clients make more informed decisions about their insurance programs. The report also outlines some of the recent trends in the insurance market for automotive industry and provides information on all major lines of coverage.
http://global.marsh.com/news/articles/Autoriskbenchmarkreport.php

VMware announces the general availability of a major VMware Infrastructure 3 update
VMware has announced that the latest version of VMware Infrastructure 3, including VMware ESX Server 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5, is generally available. The release provides new capabilities for increased levels of automation, improved overall infrastructure availability and higher performance for mission critical workloads. Read press release.

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

•Date: 13th December 2007• Region: Various