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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published recently:
PAETEC has officially opened an expansive, high-tech data center in Andover, MA, approximately 24 miles north of Boston. This new flagship center will help customers maintain their critical data, server operating applications, network, and communications assets. It also represents a major step forward for the company towards supporting cloud computing. The center not only serves companies in New England, but those nationwide with a need for geographic redundancy or a presence on the East Coast for reduced latency. The two-story, 92,700 square feet facility includes nearly an acre of raised floor space available for customers to collocate their servers, routers, and other communication equipment. More details.
Central Michigan University’s main computer system went down on August 18 after heavy rain flooding the basement in which the IBM mainframe computer is housed. A university spokesman said that technicians powered down the mainframe, removed damaged components and replaced them, then tried to restore the operations: but the system wouldn’t respond. An IBM expert was on the scene August 18, trying to diagnose and solve the problem. Read the full story.
Illinois
Federal disaster aid has been made available for the State of Illinois to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding during the period of July 22 to August 7, 2010. Gregory W. Eaton has been named the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.
Missouri
Federal disaster aid has been made available for Missouri and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, and tornadoes during the period of June 12 to July 31, 2010. Joseph M. Girot was named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.
Free event takes place in Edinburgh on Wednesday 6th October.
Following two previous successful events the BCI, BSI and CCS are running a further workshop to enable organizations to learn more about BS 25999. More details.
The State of Florida has announced that it has awarded DSM Technology Consultants the state contract for disaster recovery services. DSM will provide state, county and local agencies/entities with a broader, more flexible and cost effective range of disaster recovery services. DSM has one of the largest and safest data center networks in the state of Florida as well as a network of in-state business continuity facilities (500+ seats). www.dsm.net
FEMA daily SITREP
•Date: 20th August 2010 • Region: Various |
