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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published recently:
Continuity Centers has announced the addition of MobileVault data protection services to its Secure Private Cloud Backup offerings. The new service “extends efficient, cost-effective and transformational cloud backup and recovery solutions beyond business walls to mobile computing devices outside the corporate LAN”. Read the press release.
InformationWeek has reported that Virginia may lose data from a SAN outage that started in July. Apparently IT operations in Virginia are ‘more or less back to normal’, but Virginia is still working ‘around the clock’ to recover data. Read the story.
Somalia's Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab group has warned Uganda that it will face more terrorist attacks if it does not pull out of Somalia, reports Middle East Online. Uganda said last week it had up to 10,000 troops ready to send to Somalia and only needed foreign logistical assistance to perform the deployment. Read the story.
On 26th August 2010, the Reserve Bank of Fiji commissioned a new business continuity facility, which it terms a ‘business resumption site’. Critical business and IT functions will be switched to the facility should access to the bank’s main building in downtown Suva be disrupted.
During March and April 2010, KPMG LLP conducted a survey of senior executives at major healthcare systems to gain their insights into the most significant risks facing their organizations in the near-to-intermediate-term future.Tthe results have just been published and can be read here.
FEMA daily SITREP
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•Date: 8th September 2010 • Region: Various |
