NEWS : north america, June 2005

Complexity – friend or foe?
How to determine whether your business continuity program is overly complex
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•Date: 29th June 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Critical infrastructure protection driving US government disaster recovery investments
According to a new Frost & Sullivan report.
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•Date: 29th June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Oil dependence creates severe US security and economic risks
The outcome of last week’s ‘Oil Shockwave’ crisis simulation event.
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•Date: 28th June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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The emerging threat of intellectual property indemnification
A new study by IDC highlights the impacts of an intellectual property indemnification legal battle on companies.
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•Date: 28th June 2005 • Region: US/World• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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NIST World Trade Center investigation highlights improvements needed for tall buildings safety
Draft report and recommendations on safety, emergency response released for comment.
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•Date: 28th June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Buildings / facilities BC
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ANSI launches Homeland Security standards database
The American National Standards Institute has launched the ‘Homeland Security Standards Database’ (HSSD), which is now fully operational at www.hssd.us ANSI and its Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP) undertook the project on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security. The database provides one-stop access to homeland security standards, initially: threats; emergency preparedness and response; borders and transportation and information analysis and infrastructure protection. 
•Date: 28th June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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VeriSign offers new message archive and continuity service
VeriSign has launched the VeriSign Message Archive Service and the VeriSign Message Continuity Service, two services to complement the VeriSign Email Security Service. The new services allow enterprises to store, index and copy all business-related emails, and provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use approach to meet compliance, legal discovery and business continuity needs without deploying additional hardware or software. Read press release
•Date: 28th June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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StorageTek expands data protection options with ViaRemote backup and recovery service
StorageTek has unveiled a new service designed to protect distributed information. StorageTek's new ViaRemote service offers customers seamless, easy to use offsite backup and recovery for remote offices, mobile users or even enterprises that have distributed their data. Delivered with 'pay-as-you-go' pricing, ViaRemote provides customers with a low cost approach to protecting distributed data. More details
•Date: 28th June 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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The always-on network: strategies for achieving high availability of IT systems
High availability is becoming an increasingly important aspect of many business continuity strategies. This white paper explores the subject in detail.
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•Date: 23rd June 2005 •Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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North America seconds away from another extreme wide-area blackout
Failure of two protection devices meant that Canada and North-Eastern US were just 20 seconds away from a cascading power failure on May 27th.
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•Date: 23rd June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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Rentsys expands Mobile Recovery Center fleet
Rentsys Recovery Services, the US-based provider of mobile recovery solutions and remote communications recovery, has announced an expansion to its fleet of Mobile Recovery Centers (MRCs).
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•Date: 23rd June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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SIA and TeleContinuity form strategic sales partnership to provide voice solutions for business continuity planning for the financial services industry
The Securities Industry Association (SIA) and TeleContinuity, Inc., headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, have announced the signing of a strategic partner relationship to offer SIA's member-firms access to TeleContinuity's emergency backup telecommunications network at group discount pricing. Press release
•Date: 23rd June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Briefing •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Department of Homeland Security conducting comprehensive exercise to test continuity of operations plans
PINNACLE is a four day exercise running between June 20th – 24th.
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•Date: 22nd June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Business continuity general
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RAND study says US terrorism insurance system falling short
The terrorism insurance system is not robust enough to respond to a rapidly evolving terrorist threat against US businesses.
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•Date: 22nd June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Global oil supply disruption exercise scheduled
'Oil Shockwave' event will explore the economic and national security implications of America's dependence on oil by simulating the consequences of a major global oil supply crisis.
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•Date: 22nd June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Business continuity for small businesses
Dr. Robert F. Hester offers some thoughts and inspiration for small businesses attempting to develop business continuity plans.
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•Date: 20th June 2005 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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CapRock launches communications disaster recovery service
Aimed at disaster relief agencies, public utilities, hospitals and businesses, the self contained ‘DR-250’ communications package includes all the equipment and service needed to get back online with both telephone and broadband data services.
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•Date: 20th June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Lightning Awareness Week
The NOAA National Weather Service, along with its government, academic and private partners, is aiming to educate Americans on the dangers of lightning and ways to stay safe during its annual Lightning Safety Awareness Week, June 19-25, 2005. More details at http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov
•Date: 20th June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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Hurricanes will intensify as the earth warms: NCAR climate expert
Climate change expected to increase hurricane intensity and rainfall, but the effect on hurricane numbers remains unclear.
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•Date: 17th June 2005 • Region: N.America/World • Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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SunGard Availability Services launches ‘Information Availability for Small and Midsize Business' program
New managed hosting program couples continuous availability with ten end-user recovery seats.
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•Date: 17th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilites
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FSTC project results in comprehensive inventory of global business continuity regulations
More than 100 business continuity-related regulations, standards and guidelines affecting US financial institutions analysed.
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•Date: 16th June 2005 • Region:US • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Combined audit preparation and IT continuity planning software package now available
Neon Software, Network Frontiers and Palo Alto Software bundle LANsurveyor software with Systems Continuity Plan Pro.
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•Date: 16th June 2005 • Region:N.America• Type: Article •Topic: BC software
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Gartner survey ranks viruses and worms as top IT security threats
No surprise, but highlights the need for businesses to remain on top of these issues.
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•Date: 16th June 2005 • Region: N.America/World • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Ontrack Data Recovery launches Verifile
In order to help simplify the data recovery process, Ontrack has introduced ‘VeriFile’ online data reports. These allow customers to view a complete listing of their recoverable and non-recoverable files in an organised, easily searchable format. By means of a small browser-based application, the VeriFile reports offer customers the ability to make a more informed decision about their data recovery. www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/verifile/compare.asp
•Date: 16th June 2005 • Region:US/World • Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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New survey explores business continuity trends
EnvoyWorldWide survey finds that the silo mentality is disappearing and that regulations and customer requirements are driving business continuity uptake.
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•Date: 14th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Confidence lacking in reliability and restorability of backups
Storage professionals surveyed by ExaGrid Systems reveal disaster recovery concerns.
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•Date: 14th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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IBM, SunGard, and GoldenSource launch EDM Council
IBM, SunGard, and GoldenSource Corporation have jointly announced the launch of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council.
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•Date: 14th June 2005 • Region:US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Audit finds Department of Homeland Security IT not ready for disaster
Operations within the US Department of Homeland Security are generally unprepared to recover from a major disaster, a government audit has found. The report, published by the DHS Office of Inspector General, found that nearly 80 percent of the department's IT facilities lack fully operational data recovery sites. Read story
•Date: 14th June 2005 • Region:US • Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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New IPStor version 5 offers continuous data replication services
FalconStor has launched a new edition of its IPStor Enterprise Edition software solution. IPStor version 5 delivers what are claimed to be the industry's first scalable continuous data replication (CDR) services, providing business continuity for messaging and database applications in the data centre, and for applications in branch offices, individual desktops or on notebooks. Read press release
•Date: 14th June 2005 • Region:US • Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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The testing conundrum…
A consistent result of business continuity research is a general lack of commitment to testing and exercising plans. Why is this the case? David Honour explores.
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•Date: 10th June 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Testing and exercising
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Building true business continuity solutions over IP
Dante Malagrino details the technologies that can be used.
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•Date: 10th June 2005 •Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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The five most over-hyped IT security threats
In Gartner’s opinion…
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•Date: 10th June 2005 • Region: N.America/World • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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National Preparedness Month: September 2005
The US Department of Homeland Security and the American Red Cross are working with a wide variety of public and private sector organisations to educate the public about the importance of emergency preparedness. Throughout September, these organisations will provide information, host events and sponsor activities that disseminate emergency preparedness messages to and encourage action in their customers, members, employees, stakeholders and communities across the nation. A full list of the organisations currently signed up to National Preparedness Month can be viewed at http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=4539
Date: 10th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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SteelEye announces next generation Windows high availability and disaster recovery clustering solution
LifeKeeper for Windows version 5 offers multi-node Exchange cluster configurations, new administration options for data replication and LifeKeeper Extender for protection of any application. Read press release
•Date: 10th June 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Department of Homeland Security launches Listo Negocios
Will help Spanish-speaking owners and managers of small to medium-sized businesses develop business continuity plans.
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•Date: 9th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New risk assessment software addresses building threats
The ‘Cost Effectiveness Tool for Capital Asset Protection’ (CET), Version 1.0, employs a three-step process for developing a risk mitigation plan.
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•Date: 9th June 2005 • Region: US • Type: Article •Topic: BC facilities and buildings
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Free executive guide to hurricane preparedness available from Message One
To help organisations prepare for the hurricane season, MessageOne is offering a free ‘Executive Guide to Hurricane Preparedness’ written by Dorian Cougias, best-selling author of ten disaster recovery books. To obtain a free copy of the guide, visit www.messageone.com/hurricane
Date: 9th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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The Association of Contingency Planners launches Cleveland, OH Chapter
The ACP has announces the chartering of its first chapter in the state of Ohio. Located in Cleveland, OH the ‘Northern Ohio’ chapter will provide networking, educational, and professional development services to the rapidly growing number of business continuity professionals throughout the area. The Chapter will begin meeting in July 2005. For direct chapter inquiries, please contact Chapter President, Brian Zawada brian.zawada@protiviti.com
Date: 9th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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SunGard Availability Services announces new hosted Microsoft Exchange services
SunGard is to begin offering hosted Microsoft Exchange services as part of its messaging and collaboration portfolio. As a result of this offering, SunGard's customers can now elect to have the company manage all aspects of their Microsoft Exchange e-mail services. Read press release
•Date: 9th June 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Top ten tips for 2005 hurricane season planning
SunGard Availability Services outlines the lessons learned from being actively involved in many post-hurricane disaster recovery invocations.
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Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Changing IT landscape presents new business continuity challenges
A Gartner report has highlighted five issues which are leading a paradigm shift in the way that organisations use and manage IT.
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•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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TelCove enters the disaster recovery and business continuity market
‘Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Transport Solution’ offers solutions for high-bandwidth, high availability data backup and recovery.
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•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Iron Mountain launches FACTA-ready secure shredding program
Iron Mountain has introduced a new FACTA-Ready Secure Shredding program to help businesses swiftly comply with the new US FACTA Disposal Rule that went into effect on June 1st, 2005. Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), the Federal Trade Commission and other federal agencies have implemented new rules and fines governing the methods by which US businesses that possess or maintain consumer information must dispose of such information. Read press release
•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Briefing •Topic: ISM
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NSI launches enhancements to Double-Take
The introduction of EnterpriseView Server Groups creates a simple management tool for large enterprise environments. The Double-Take extension enables system administrators to quickly organise, monitor, and manage hundreds of Double-Take servers across the enterprise and across the globe. Read press release.
•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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FEMA launches enhanced photo library database
Looking for a disaster recovery image? Make the recently enhanced and expanded FEMA photo library your first stop. The library contains over 9,200 catalogued and indexed images taken by FEMA’s staff of disaster field photographers. http://www.photolibrary.fema.gov/photolibrary/index.jsp
•Date: 8th June 2005 • Region: N.America • Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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