Business continuity briefs:
4th April 2008

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

‘Implementing Disaster Recovery Strategies and Technologies’
Aberdeen has announced today the publication of its latest benchmark report with the above title. Aberdeen surveyed over 150 end-user organizations, and results provide evidence that best-in-class IT organizations have built infrastructures that support rapid recovery of data and applications with minimal or no downtime which assures business continuity even in the face of a severe disruption event. While 62 percent of all the companies surveyed experienced between 1 and 5 business interruption events in the last 12 months, only 49 percent of the companies surveyed have had a business continuity strategy for more than 2 years, and 34 percent have yet to implement a solution. A complimentary copy of this report can be obtained after registration from http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=4662

Automata lowers fees for International Business Continuity Summer School and scheduled courses to help with ‘credit crunch’
Automata has substantially lowered its fees for its International Business Continuity Summer School and scheduled Business Continuity courses. The new, lower fees apply to Automata’s:

• International Business Continuity Summer School, Dates: 4th to 9th August.
• Business Continuity Masterclass, 12th and 13th May, 9th and 10th June, 14th and 15 July.
• BS 25999 EXTRA! 14th May, 11th June, 16th July.
• IT Service Continuity, 19th and 20th May, 18th and 19th June, 21st and 22nd July.
• BS PAS 77 EXTRA! 21st May, 20th June, 23rd July.
• Exercise Delivery & Development, Dates: 15th May, 17th July

http://www.automataservices.com/training.htm

Online ITIL examinations
IT professionals taking the BCS - ISEB ITIL V3 Foundation Exams can now take them online. The new facility enables students to sit their exam and receive their results on the same day. The popularity of ITIL (the IT Infrastructure Library, which is regarded as the world standard in IT service management best practice), has expanded from a UK government philosophy to becoming a widely adopted global framework for service management. Around 35 per cent of organisations in many northern European countries have adopted part of the ITIL philosophy, according to estimates by the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF), the users' forum. http://www.bcs.org/

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

Bird flu's spread around the globe

•Date: 4th April 2008• Region: Various