Business continuity briefs:
31st 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.

Power supply: South Africa government declares a national emergency
Unprecedented unplanned power outages have seriously impacted many businesses in South Africa over recent weeks and months and the situation has reached such a serious position that the government has declared that the situation ‘must now be treated as a national electricity emergency’.
Read South Africa government statement

Major disaster declared for Indiana
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Indiana to help people and communities recover from the effects of severe storms and flooding during the period of January 7, 2008, and continuing. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9265

Stratus Technologies takes hat trick of awards
Stratus Technologies started off 2008 racking up two awards for its products and one for overall performance as a fault-tolerant technology provider. Stratus won best product/technology in award competitions conducted by Internet Telephony and InfoWorld magazines, and a financial services industry award from American Banker and Financial Insights in their FinTech 100 competition. Read press release (PDF)

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: Various