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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published recently:
27th – 29th April 2010, Earls Court, London.
Celebrating its 15th year, Infosecurity Europe continues to provide a free education programme, over 300 exhibitors and a diverse range of new products and services. Held on the 27th – 29th April 2010 at Earls Court, London, this is a must attend event for all professionals involved in information security. www.infosec.co.uk
Chloride, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and services, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Emergency Power Systems plc, a UK provider of standby power solutions and services. Based in Sheffield and Glasgow, Emergency Power Systems plc manufactures fully integrated standby power products for emergency lighting, UPS and diesel generators, typically utilised in complex and demanding applications in rail, defence, government, retail, healthcare and industrial sectors. Emergency Power Systems will continue to operate as a standalone business, and Derek W Plowright, the former owner, will continue as managing director along with the existing management team structure to ensure a seamless transition into the Chloride Group. www.chloridepower.co.uk
US-based Computer Alternative Processing Sites (CAPS), Inc. and eGlobal Insight, Inc. have announced a partnership to offer what the companies claim will be the market's fastest and most highly advanced failover and notification communications system. Under the agreement's terms, eGlobal Insight's system becomes part of the CAPS Total IT Solutions products and services roster, expands its business footprint into the IT infrastructure data center space and selects CAPS as its data center disaster recovery site provider. CAPS and eGlobal Insight jointly will market and offer the system immediately to its clients. Read press release.
3PAR has announced three new platform enhancements designed to automate and streamline storage server provisioning, particularly in clustered and virtual server environments. 3PAR Autonomic Groups, new utility storage software designed to enhance data centre agility and efficiency, enables users to create volume groups on 3PAR InServ Storage Servers that simplify, automate, and expedite storage provisioning, monitoring, and data protection in clustered and virtual server environments. Also announced today, 3PAR Scheduler provides an automated scheduling facility for routine execution of InServ provisioning commands while 3PAR Host Explorer automates host discovery and collection of detailed InServ host configuration information. Together, these three new products minimise repetitive, time consuming, and error-prone administration tasks by making storage provisioning and host discovery autonomic. Read press release.
COOP Systems has announced that Twoplus Soft Co., Ltd. has agreed to sell and support a fully localized myCOOP business continuity software package to the Thai market. "We are very pleased to have Twoplus as a strategic partner in Asia," said Chris Alvord, CEO of COOP Systems. "The special nature of the Kingdom of Thailand, with a large population, very rapid economic growth and special exposure to pandemic risk, makes for a key target market for COOP Systems. With no other Thai-language BCM software in the market, we believe that myCOOP will be a big success.
www.coop-systems.com
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•Date: 13th November 2009• Region: Various |
