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'Business
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press releases and other useful resources published in the last
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A mass vaccination against H1N1 pandemic flu will start in the Autumn in the UK. More than 11 million people in England will be targeted in the first priority groups. These will include pregnant women, frontline health and social care workers, and everyone in at-risk groups aged over six months. More details.
The UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC has published an enhanced version (V2.3) of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Model Services Agreement and Guidance for major or complex ICT enabled business change projects. The free-to-use solution includes significant updates in the key areas of financial distress and security management. As part of this the business continuity and disaster recovery aspects of the guidance (schedule 8.6) have been updated and clarified. http://www.partnershipsuk.org.uk/ogcictguidance.aspx
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, has published the Australian Emergency Management Arrangements (AEMA) document. The Arrangements provide an overview of how federal, state, territory and local governments collectively approach the management of emergencies, including catastrophic disaster events. The Arrangements, endorsed by the Ministerial Council for Police and Emergency Management (MCPEM), outline:
* The principles, structures and procedures that support the coordination of emergency management in Australia and its offshore territories; and
* The collaboration necessary to match the response and assistance required to the nature of the event.
The AEMA will be discussed in September as part of a workshop to examine Australia’s arrangements for preparing and responding to catastrophic disasters. www.ema.gov.au
A new software tool, ‘Disaster Recovery Manager’ has been launched to provide a low cost (£120 inc VAT) service for the creation, secure storage, sharing and ongoing management of disaster recovery and business continuity plans online. Using the Disaster Recovery Manager system and templates a business can assess its disaster readiness, download a bespoke action plan for improvement and create/share a disaster recovery plan online. Every time a user updates the plan their colleagues will immediately see the new version of the disaster recovery plan from any Internet browser www.DisasterRecoveryManager.com
Tuesday 26th January 2010, QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London.
Civil Contingencies 2010 will explore the challenges which resilience professionals have faced in implementing strategies to minimise the impacts of disruptions on organizations and communities. How they prepare and respond to an internal, local, regional or national disruption and how they facilitate the smooth return to normality following a disruption will form the core of this year’s programme.
http://www.govnet.co.uk/civil/index.html
InMage has announced the availability of infrastructure solutions for managed service providers that will enable them to easily offer tiered recovery solutions for their customers. In building recovery solutions around the InMage Scout platform, MSPs will address end users' biggest data and application recovery problems, including backup impacts, data loss on recovery, lengthy recovery times, recovery reliability, and implementing cost-effective disaster recovery. Read press release.
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•Date: 13th-14th August 2009• Region: Various |
