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This year’s Business Continuity Expo is taking place at London's ExCeL Exhibition Centre on the 28th-29th March. Various new products and services will be on show, and the following provides a summary of the majority of these.
For general details about the show visit http://www.businesscontinuityexpo.co.uk/
123BCP Ltd
The new 123BCP web system (£250 per annum) allows you to copy your business continuity plan to the Internet and then in the event of a disaster you can send an SMS text message to your staff, e-mail your clients, suppliers, bank, insurer and other essential contacts with a single click of the mouse.
Applied Satellite Technology
The latest mobile satellite communication product to the market is the Inmarsat BGAN. This small portable modem offers simultaneous voice, fax and data up to 492kbps. It can be set up in minutes, giving you a complete mobile office.
BELFOR
Soot Removal Film (SRF) is a new innovative natural liquid latex based product developed by BELFOR for specialist decontamination of structures. A thin layer is sprayed or painted on to the contaminated surface and once dry can be peeled away in sheet form, revealing a clean surface free from contaminants.
Business Continuity Institute
The BCI has joined forces with INONI Ltd to develop BCI Benchmark, a powerful self assessment tool which will enable companies to benchmark and measure their business continuity plans and processes against the latest version of the Good Practice Guide 2007. BCI Benchmark will also allow benchmarking and self-evaluation against the broad principles contained in other international business continuity standards. This provides an excellent opportunity to use BCI Benchmark as a best practice teaching aid enabling the user to learn how to improve business continuity management within their organisation.
BSI Business Information
Showcasing standards and publications including the first British Standard in Business Continuity Management - BS 25999-1:2006 Code of practice in Business Continuity Management, BS 25999 Business Continuity Self-Assessment Tool and PAS 77:2006 IT Service Continuity Management.
Continuity²
Continuity² will launch its new software tool for managing business continuity. The differentiator for this tool is that it is designed to fit organisations at a bespoke level thus avoiding the pain of trying to embed predefined software into organisations.
Continuity Shop
Continuity Shop, a leading provider of BCI-Approved training, is partnering the British Standards Institution in the provision of public courses on BS 25999, PAS 77 and four other business continuity topics. The six courses, marketed jointly by BSI Business Information and Continuity Shop, include ‘Implementing BS 25999’ and ‘Implementing PAS 77’. All the courses are also approved, or undergoing approval, by the Business Continuity Institute.
Criticall Ltd
Criticall will be launching what it claims is the world’s first hosted notification solution for enterprise platform management systems (HP Openview, Tivoli, Netcool, CA Unicenter/TNG), network management systems and building management systems.
Double-Take Software
Double-Take Software will be showcasing the most recently developed business continuity solution for accessible and affordable data protection for Microsoft Windows applications. The Server Recovery Option (SRO) and the ShadowCaster incorporate new technology enabling real time protection of entire servers (OS, applications and data) by combining continuous data replication with continuous system state protection. This allows customers to rapidly failover to an alternate server, even if it has different hardware configurations.
E92 Plus Ltd
Will show the latest SonicWALL product offering, the TZ190. This offers secure broadband wireless Internet access in an instant. The unit is a network security appliance, which allows users to instantly create a secure 3G wireless broadband network in any location, without the need for a fixed Internet connection.
EMC Computer Systems (UK) Ltd
EMC Corporation recently announced several cost-effective and easy-to-use solutions to help its customers more effectively consolidate, back up, archive and protect their information. EMC will be displaying the EMC CLARiiON CX3-10 UltraScale networked storage system, a new entry point into its market-leading series of full 4Gb/s storage arrays. The system joins the CX3-20, CX3-40 and CX3-80 models in supporting all CLARiiON array-based software functionality, including data management, replication and mobility. Also on display will be the new EMC RecoverPoint/SE software, an entry point for network-based asynchronous replication in mid-tier storage environments; and three solutions to help midsize businesses consolidate, back up, archive and protect their Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Oracle RAC 10g environments.
Emergency Planning College
The EPC is launching the next development to further enhance and sustain UK resilience – Project Gold Standard – which will provide the multi-agency civil command team the necessary training for the effective management of major emergencies and events. The flexibility of system design will allow use across both the public and private sector spectrums.
Financial Services Authority
The FSA has produced a Toolkit to help firms strengthen their business continuity and crisis management arrangements. This comprises of two complementary elements: an on-line self assessment tool Benchmarking Lite and the Business Continuity Management Practice Guide. Benchmarking Lite shows where a firm's business continuity arrangements may be falling short and where changes could be made to gain the most significant improvement. The Business Continuity Management Practice Guide reflects the collective observed standard and leading practices of some of the UK's most significant financial firms.
GemaTech (UK) Ltd
GemaTech will be launching its new ‘Channel Switching Manager’ (CSM) a comprehensive recovery solution for financial dealing/trading room environments providing the ability to instantaneously re-route individual ‘nailed up’ connections delivered via CAS bearers on an individual circuit by circuit basis to any other chosen/specified location or locations.
HP
HP will be showing its newly launched Electronic Vaulting Service.
ICM Computer Group plc
Disaster Cover Direct, ICM’s recently launched service for SMEs will be on display. This straightforward, low cost solution offers replacement IT equipment express-shipped to site, Internet and email access and alternative pre-equipped local office facilities, allowing companies to relocate to any one of ICM’s 12 business continuity centres throughout the UK.
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Iron Mountain
At BC Expo Iron Mountain will introduce its Low Tech Media Guide, a clear overview of data backup and storage media products.
Line Xero Ltd
Details will be given about XeroRisk v6.0, which is currently in the development stage, with a scheduled release for Summer 2007. This release will enable corporate risk governance to become truly distributed. As regulatory demands for risk governance and compliance increase it is vital that businesses of all sizes recognise the impact that their subcontractors and agents have on their total risk profile and factor these risk mitigations into their risk policy planning. XeroRisk currently supports subcontractor mitigated risks through remote party access to the corporate risk portal. XeroRisk v6 will take this to the next stage allowing companies to share risk data with their subcontractors in real-time ensuring that corporate risk visibility is maintained.
Locate in Kent
Sota who are stand-sharing with Locate in Kent are launching a new state-of-the art data centre in Kent, featuring ‘oxy-reduct’ fire-suppression and integral workplace recovery seats. Sota’s second data centre is well connected and strategically placed to serve both the out of London co-location market and the regional business community.
MessageOne
MessageOne will be showing its breakthrough managed e-mail continuity service, called EMS Email ContinuityT.
Needhams 1834 Ltd
Needhams is extending its business continuity consultancy services by launching new ‘Micro DR’ facilities based at its Fleet Street offices. It will also be offering a new programme of BC training courses for all levels to be held at its own offices or on client sites.
Network Disaster Recovery
NDR will show its latest range of services ranging from fully equipped business recovery centres, mobile recovery units, real time data backup and contingency hosting solutions to business continuity consultancy.
Neverfail Group
Neverfail will have news that it has joined the BlackBerry ISV Alliance Program. Neverfail for BlackBerry Enterprise Server was the first solution on the market to provide a high availability and disaster recovery solution specifically for organisations using the BlackBerry mobile email platform. Neverfail will also have details of enhancements to the Enterprise edition of its SCOPE (Server Check Optimisation and Performance Evaluation) software, which provides a ‘health-check’ for servers.
Office Shadow Limited
During the last 12 months Office-Shadow has won the prestigious CIR award for Best BC software. It will present the very latest version of this software.
Sembcorp Utilities UK
SembCorp will highlight the latest fire protection and engineering equipment which it deploys to save lives and assets as well as ensuring business continuity. It will explain how industrial emergency preparedness processes can be incorporated into SembCorp’s model to successfully manage incidents.
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Siemens Plc
Siemens Insight Consultings’ new Policy Monitor 2.0 is a dynamic end to end policy management solution which will allow any organisation to automate and standardise the development, dissemination and acceptance of security policy. The tool has a SCORM compliant LMS embedded which means it can be used to support eLearning for security awareness programmes.
Solcara
Solcara is showcasing Crisis Control Centre v2.0.1. Celebrating the launch of ‘the market’s most innovative new solution’, Solcara will be providing full demonstrations of the control centre.
Spook Limited
Spook will launch the mySpook environmental monitoring solution at BC Expo. With this, customers are given a secure account and MySpook provides access to weekly management reports, real-time sensor graphing, 24/7 support, archive management reports, installation floor plans, summary alarm notifications, heartbeat notifications, critical contact lists, escalation procedures, sensor high, low and averages for the period and the Spook alarm log.
Steadlands
Steadlands will be exhibiting the latest product in the ePad range, the ePad-LS, which boasts a large, colour screen which not only allows the capture of eSignatures but also offers retail users a customer facing sales medium as questionnaires and presentations can also be displayed. By switching traditional paper-based systems which require signature to a fully electronic format, the requirement for paper warehousing and the risks to business continuity caused by fire, flooding, etc are removed. Copies of the original signed document, the eOriginal, can be held on more than one system for added security.
Stratus
Stratus and Foundation IT will be demonstrating how to put together IT systems that deliver the highest levels of business continuity support.
SunGard Availability Services
SunGard Availability Services will be highlighting its recently unveiled Electronic Vaulting service, which helps organisations to securely backup their data, and slash up to eight hours from the time it takes customers to resume operations following an incident. SunGard’s new Enhanced Recovery Service will also be on display. This can automatically restore data, help reduce recovery times by up to a third, and help reduce DR costs.
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Teed Business Continuity
Teed will be showcasing two new consulting services.
Total Memory
Total Memory is launching a complete iSCSI business continuity package for SMEs, priced at under £10,000. The package includes two redundant SANs and a choice of synchronous or asynchronous mirroring.
Unilink Systems
The second most frequently asked request of help desks after, ‘please can you reset my password’ is ‘can you tell me if last night’s backup worked’. Sentinel, a new web-based software package from Unilink, answers that question by monitoring backup systems such as IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager and making the data on backup success or failure readily available to the end-user.
Vocal
Vocal will launch two new core products at the Expo. Firstly, iModus - a dedicated, robust communications tool enabling both rapid dissemination and broadcast of messages with a control planning and mapping tool. Secondly, its Police and Public Services emergency communication and alerting platform called WarnandInform.com.
The above listing is based on various sources. If your company is exhibiting a new product or service at the BC Expo, email editor@continuitycentral.com to be added.
•Date: 23rd March 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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