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'Business
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press releases and other useful resources published in the last
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ICM Business Continuity Services has been awarded a contract by the Scottish Prison Service for the provision of an off-site facility to mirror the existing applications and services provided by the Prison Service’s centrally-located server suite at South Gyle. Additionally, ICM will provide 20 workarea seats for Scottish Prison Service Staff. The seven year contract will cost £135,000 per year. ICM will use its Hamilton facility to service the contract. Sources include http://ted.europa.eu
Research by Storage Expo has found that the top data storage challenge facing organizations is how to implement the right disaster recovery strategy (83 percent of respondents stating that this is a top challenge). The second most important issues of concern to the 252 organisations covered in the research was ensuring data security for the business (82 percent) and third was the management of increasing volumes of data (81 percent). Centralising data access was a concern for 79 percent of organisations closely followed by how to store data cost effectively (77 percent). Ensuring compliance with the latest data storage legislation and knowing what regulations to comply with are of concern to 68 percent of organisations. Achieving interoperability across existing storage solutions was an issue for 60 percent of organisations. www.storage-expo.com
15th - 17th September 2008, Hotel Trident, Mumbai.
The Indian Banks’ Association in consultation with the Professional Risk Managers’ International Associations (PRIMA) and Ductilibility, LLC, is planning a three day training programme looking at risk management and operational risk in Basel II. More details at http://www.iba.org.in/events/TrainingSep08.doc (Word document)
Pilgrims Group has been awarded a contract to provide manned security guarding teams for 16 of SunGard’s 20 UK recovery centre sites. Pilgrims will secure these buildings, providing front-of-house security services, including guarding access control and visitor management. www.pilgrimsgroup.com
CERT has published a new podcast featuring Bradford Willke and Julia Allen. It covers:
* Critical Infrastructures and their Reliance on Critical Information Infrastructures;
* National Risk Management Frameworks and Public/Private Partnerships
* First Steps and Additional Resources.
http://www.cert.org/podcast/
FEMA daily SITREP
World weather impacts
Tropical downpours worsening, say scientists
•Date: 8th August 2008• Region: Various |
