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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published recently:
On November 17, in Los Angeles, The Long Term Disaster Recovery Working Group held the third of five planned stakeholder forums designed to encourage stakeholders to provide direct input and ideas for disaster recovery. The Working Group previously met with stakeholders to gather input and ideas in New York City on Nov. 10 and in New Orleans on Nov. 4. The public is also encouraged to visit DisasterRecoveryWorkingGroup.gov to provide input on the same 16 specific questions posed to stakeholders at the Working Group meetings. Upcoming stakeholder meetings will take place in Salt Lake City (Nov. 19) and Memphis (Nov. 23).
NetEx has announced an expansion of its endorsement of VMware virtual infrastructures with support for VMware's vCenter Converter with HyperIP for industry-leading acceleration for movement of converted virtual machines images across WANs. Read press release.
Hitachi Data Systems has announced the addition of the Hitachi Dynamic Replicator to its replication and data protection software portfolio. In partnership with InMage Systems, Hitachi Data Systems meets the operational and economic needs of midrange customers by offering simple, cost-effective disaster recovery solutions for heterogeneous data storage environments. Read press release.
The Hampden Group, which has been providing administrative and claims services to the insurance industry since 1979, has invested in a secure business continuity and data management solution from Frontier Technology to ensure security and compliance within a growing regulatory environment. Edwin Wong, managing director at Frontier Technology, comments: “Our fully automated Frontier Continuity Service (FCS) is a perfect solution for customers like Hampden Group. It replicates business critical servers such as mail, web, file and database servers in real-time over to a standby server in our data centre. This allows customers to enjoy the benefits of automated server failover – ensuring uninterrupted access to data - and a fully tested business continuity solution.” Hampden Group has also utilised Frontier’s data management solution based on Symantec Enterprise Vault to help comply with FSA regulations, reduce storage costs and simplify disaster recovery.
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•Date: 18th November 2009• Region: Various |
