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continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published recently:
The Rebuild Iowa Award for Service has been presented to the Butler County Disaster Recovery Coalition. The award recognizes individuals and organizations that have gone above and beyond the call of duty in Iowa’s 2008 disaster recovery efforts. The Butler County Disaster Recovery Coalition was created by concerned citizens, business leaders, government officials and clergy to meet long-term recovery needs following the 2008 floods and tornadoes. Although the Coalition’s work on the 2008 disasters is winding down, the Coalition will continue, with members meeting on a regular basis so they are ready for the next disaster.
Send Word Now has announced a new contract with the Family Assistance Foundation. The Foundation will use Send Word Now's alerting software to reach out to volunteers, member organization, and crisis managers in order to help both survivors and their families. After an accident or disaster, The Foundation organizes its own team, along with volunteers from member organizations around the world to help to provide transportation, food, lodging, and counseling in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. http://www.sendwordnow.com
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has issued a ‘Notice to Cure’ in response to a series of alleged contractual failures by IBM, the primary vendor for the state’s data center services program. The Notice to Cure asserts that IBM is in breach of its seven year service contract signed with the state in 2006 for $863 million dollars. The notice highlights ‘material breaches’ of the data center services contract in the areas of consolidation, backup and recovery, security, disaster recovery, service level attainment, and staffing, and multiple other breaches that ‘collectively constitute an additional material breach’. Read the Notice to Cure and DIR press release.
New plans for managing the growing risk of flooding and coastal erosion within Wales have been launched by Welsh Assembly Environment Minister Jane Davidson. The plans respond to climate change predictions which indicate that changes to rain fall patterns and rising sea levels will significantly increase the risk of flooding in Wales in the future.
The National Strategy for flood and coastal erosion risk in Wales consultation seeks views on the following four proposed objectives:
* reducing the impacts from flooding and coastal erosion on individuals, communities and businesses;
* raising awareness of and engaging people in the response to flood and coastal erosion risk;
* providing an effective and sustained response to flood and coastal erosion events;
* prioritising investment in the most at risk communities.
The consultation will run from 16 July to 8 October.
CharTec has launched a custom-built business continuity solution that allows managed service providers to deploy backup and disaster recovery as a service. The CharTec BDR (Backup Disaster Recovery) appliance is an Intel based server solution that provides backup, disaster recovery, and replication of virtual images to the cloud with nightly self testing to make sure the backups are successful. The unit is backed by 24x7 US-based help desk support. There are no upfront costs, which enables any MSP to begin earning revenue immediately. Read press release.
Omnitech Infosolutions is planning to make a Rs 25 crore investment to set up two more recovery facilities (termed Disaster Recovery Business Continuity (DRBC) centres by the company) by the end of next year . One of the new facilities will be in the NCR and the other in Bangalore. The company currently has two facilities at Hyderabad and Navi Mumbai. http://www.omnitechindia.com/
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•Date: 21st July 2010 • Region: Various |
