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press releases and other useful resources published recently:
The Pakistan Federal Minister for Environment, Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, has said that global warming is affecting the country more than any other. He has also issued a warning that future floods could be even worse than the current situation, if the country’s glaciers continue to melt.
An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong on August 27th, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic. The damage could have been far worse however, and the incident shows just how fragile one of the Internet’s core protocols really is, security experts said. Read the Computerworld story.
About 10,000 civil servants in the Mexican capital will receive specialist training in disaster risk reduction under a United Nations-backed initiative to better protect the city, which is vulnerable to devastating earthquakes. The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is supporting the training in Mexico City, which is a signatory to the UN’s ‘Making Cities Resilient’ campaign, the UN initiative to boost the strength of urban areas against disasters. The training is designed to ensure that civil servants know their responsibilities and options to consistently help reduce the disaster risks facing their city.
HP has announced HP CloudStart, claimed to be the industry’s first all-in-one solution for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment within 30 days. Built on an HP Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudStart simplifies and speeds private cloud deployments. Consisting of hardware, software and services, HP CloudStart empowers businesses to deliver pay-per-use services reliably and securely from a common portal, and it offers the ability to scale and deploy new services automatically. Real-time access to consumption and chargeback reports allows clients to operate their private clouds in the same fashion as a public cloud. With HP’s open architecture approach, clients are able to integrate their private clouds with third-party enterprise portals, public cloud services, usage billing packages and multiplatform resource management. www.hp.com
Acronis and iland have jointly announced a cloud-based disaster recovery service. Under ‘Rapid-Response’ disk images of mission-critical virtual and physical machines created by Acronis backup and recovery software are transported to the iland Internet Solutions' Continuity Cloud and converted into standby virtual machines. In case of a disaster, an administrator working at an Acronis management console can initiate instant restorations of those machines in the cloud, allowing users to continue working without interruption. www.acronis.com
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•Date: 1st September 2010 • Region: Various |
