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The blame game The sinking of the Costa Concordia in Tuscan waters remains an international news story and has seen the humiliation of the ship’s captain. Jim Preen comments on the crisis communications strategy of the ship’s owners. >> Read more Can you trust the cloud mega-companies with critical aspects of your business continuity? Google decision highlights a key risk of relying on public cloud providers for business continuity. David Honour comments. Object storage for big unstructured data How to create uniformly scalable storage systems with an automated healing mechanism. By Tom Leyden. News headlines Confidence in IT disaster recovery processes increases KPMG gives businesses advice on cloud adoption Moremi: A Legend in Risk Management Local Government Association provides UK authorities with London 2012 advice Nimbus Launches E-Class flash memory system for mission-critical enterprise and cloud infrastructure ‘Your Ten Step Guide to Becoming Games Ready’ Insurance: preparing, managing, and responding to catastrophic event claims US terror hot spots identified World IPv6 launch day: 6 June 2012 World Economic Forum launches ‘Risk and Responsibility in a Hyperconnected World: Principles and Guidelines’ London 2012 kicks off free preparation sessions for businesses Research confirms the effectiveness of simple hygiene measures in combatting pandemic influenza New report for NIST outlines key features of next-generation public safety communications IBM launches new software to help organization control the influx of mobile devices to the workplace COSO issues risk appetite thought paper UK businesses urged to plan for network traffic load during the Olympics ‘Cyber Security Strategies: Achieving Cyber Resilience’ UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Disaster prevention to be at the heart of UN work for the next five years Napolitano presents ‘National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security’ PwC highlights cyber attack realities in Davos European Commission publishes new data protection proposals NIST issues guidelines for managing cloud security and privacy Brazil to open Centre of Excellence for Disaster Risk Reduction SunGard Availability Services to offer Workforce Continuity Services to Ontario businesses Survey highlights inability of companies to test London 2012 business continuity plans 2012 business continuity horizon scan >> More news Sign up for Continuity Briefing Never miss a news story: signup for our free weekly email newsletter. Read the latest issue Latest Business Continuity Briefs This issue includes: • BrightTALK Cloud Infrastructure Summit • Vocal and Needhams partner to deliver business continuity exercises for Priority Alert Clients • Google releases ‘Google Public Alerts’ • New BCI Forum launched: in British Columbia >> Read Business continuity briefs Technology and business continuity in 2012 2012 will see a new wave of business continuity solutions based on virtualization and cloud technologies, says Paddy Falls. It’s time to change your mindset… Business continuity planners who feel that they lack top-level support should stop blaming senior managers: the problem probably lies closer to home. By John M. Stagl. Top tips for fantastic business continuity desktop exercises Charley Newnham presents nineteen tips for running a successful business continuity exercise. The challenges in a changing world: adopting an integrated approach to risk mitigation In this paper Robert Hall looks at attitudes to risk within businesses and explains why the balance may be too far on the side of risk avoidance. Executive buy-in? It doesn't end there Middle management also needs to be sold business continuity if corporate inertia is to be overcome. The Journal of Business Continuity and Resiliency The The Journal of Business Continuity and Resiliency is Continuity Central’s quarterly peer-reviewed advanced level publication. Q1 2012 now available. BC statistics and research Many organizations lack confidence in London 2012 business continuity plans Disaster recovery planning in European organizations UK enterprise data protection survey Survey provides a global snapshot of business continuity and disaster recovery practices State of Resilience 2011 Discuss business continuity management Continuity Central recently launched a new resource to enable real-time discussion of selected Continuity Central articles as well as general business continuity subjects. Called MyContinuityCentral, the new website offers interactive resources to enable you to discuss, debate and expand your business continuity thinking. Access is free after registration. >> Go to MyContinuityCentral The six ‘gotchas’ of disaster recovery There are many factors that can complicate the recovery process if businesses aren't careful. Here are six of the biggest issues that organizations may face as they plan for continuity. By Philip Lieberman. >> Read more

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