Business continuity briefs:
10th January 2008

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

New Zealand Stock Exchange installs new continuous availability system
New Zealand Exchange Limited (NZX) has announced that has replaced the blade servers that had been driving its equities trading engine with fault-tolerant Stratus servers. Read the press release (PDF)

Portware launches high availability solution
Portware, an independent provider of global, broker-neutral, multi-asset trading systems, has launched a real-time failover system. Portware High Availability ‘provides unprecedented business continuity in the event of any trading system failure’ and is available to buy- and sell-side firms using Portware’s Enterprise solution. Read press release.

Major disaster declared for Nevada
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Nevada to help people and communities recover from the effects of severe winter storms and flooding beginning on January 5, 2008, and continuing. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9225

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

Zambia fears severe floods could worsen

•Date: 10th January 2008• Region: Various