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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published in the last
24 hours.
AmeriVault and NTG have announced the launch of ‘Venyu’ — a newly combined company created to deliver commercial-grade, customizable solutions for data protection, availability and recovery. Bolstered by the financial strength and stability of parent company PHNS, Venyu gives small-to-medium sized businesses more reliable data protection and recovery alternatives and eliminates the need for courier services, back-up tape and on-premise hardware. www.venyu.com
26th June 2009, London.
Continuity Forum is running the above event in association with the UK Department of Health and the Cabinet Office. The summit features the latest information on pandemic planning and will provide best practice advice and details of the latest research into the preparedness of organizations. More details.
South Africa-based business continuity provider ContinuitySA has reported good results for its financial year ended December 2008. The company made R15 million after tax profits, an increase of 30 percent on the previous year. ContinuitySA says that all aspects of its operations in Africa were growth areas in 2008 and that it expects further expansion this year, with more disaster recovery sites established. http://www.continuitysa.co.za
FalconStor Software has announced a new backup acceleration option for FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL). The new FalconStor VTL Backup Accelerator improves backup processes by offloading backups from production environments, eliminating impact on host applications, boosting speed and entirely eliminating the backup window. Read press release.
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), through its Technical Council (TC), has announced the creation of the Cloud Storage Technical Work Group (TWG) aimed at developing SNIA Architectures and best practices related to cloud storage technology. www.snia.org/cloud
Phoenix IT Group plc, the parent company of ICM, has issued an update on trading for the year to 31 March 2009. This states that: “The Board of Phoenix IT Group plc confirms that trading, cash generation and non-recurring costs for the year to 31 March 2009 have been in line with the Board's expectations. At 31 March 2009, net bank debt was £72.4m, compared to bank facilities of £109.0m and finance lease liabilities were approximately £16m. Non-recurring costs (relating to integration costs; staff termination costs; and disposal costs arising from the sales of ICM Business Solutions Limited and Phoenix's French business, Phoenix Holding S.A.) will be approximately £8m before any property impairments that may be appropriate.”
FEMA daily SITREP
World weather impacts
Italy earthquake
•Date: 8th April 2009• Region: Various |
