World Conference on Disaster Management sold Diversified Business Communications Canada acquires the event. Read article •Date: 30th October 2007• Region: Canada/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Elevators DO have a role in tall building evacuations NIST exploring the advantages / disadvantages of elevator use in evacuations. Read article •Date: 30th October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC facilities
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FEMA attempts to restore damaged reputation David Paulison issues a statement following deceptive Californian wildfires press conference. Read article •Date: 30th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Framework document on cybersecurity open for public comment Internet facing information systems face serious man-made and natural threats that can adversely affect their associated organization’s mission, operations, image and reputation. In order to provide guidelines for addressing these potential threats, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a draft of Special Publication 800-39, Managing Risk from Information Systems: An Organizational Perspective, for public comment. •Date: 30th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: ISM
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Empirix announces availability of ‘Hammer On-Call’ and ‘VoiceWatch’ disaster recovery services Empirix Inc. has launched its Hammer On-Call and VoiceWatch disaster recovery services. These offerings have been created to help enterprises ensure that interruptions in power, carrier circuits, and contact center infrastructure and applications failover gracefully and as planned, minimizing the impact on customers.
Read press release http://www.empirix.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=1127 •Date: 30th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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Business continuity planning for REAL people By Sean Doherty, BCM advisor, RBC Royal Bank IT department. Read article •Date: 26th October 2007• Region: Canada/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Many global banks can’t estimate annual risk and control costs ...Says Ernst & Young Survey; respondents cite need for risk convergence. Read article •Date: 26th October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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IAEM puts National Response Framework ideas to DHS The culmination of several weeks of discussion between IAEM and FEMA on a range of suggestions received from state and local emergency managers and first responders on the NRF. Read article •Date: 26th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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California wildfires disaster recovery update page This page will be updated with relevant disaster recovery information and offers of assistance.UPDATED Read article •Date: 26th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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PlanREADY names Dennis Evans as chief executive officer and chief financial officer PlanREADY, provider of an integrated solution for risk mitigation and emergency preparedness, has announced that Dennis Evans has joined the company as chief executive officer and chief financial officer. Mr. Evans is the former CEO of Data Transit Corporation, and prior to that the executive vice president, chief financial officer and secretary of Computer Access Technology Corporation. PlanREADY is a privately-held Delaware corporation, headquartered in Morgan Hill, California. http://www.planready.com/ •Date: 26th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Aggreko LLC and BELFOR USA renew alliance Aggreko LLC and BELFOR USA have renewed their agreement to provide complete property restoration and disaster recovery support for North American businesses. The agreement will allow Aggreko and BELFOR to continue to provide a single point of contact for business customers in need of a recovery service. Aggreko's temporary power generation and temperature/moisture control systems, combined with BELFOR's specialized emergency response capabilities, ‘provide an arsenal of cost-effective, time-sensitive solutions for industrial, commercial and residential emergency needs’. Aggreko and BELFOR provide local support through a network of over 50 Aggreko service centers and 70 BELFOR offices across North America. http://www.aggreko.com •Date: 26th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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DRI International issues position statement on NFPA 1600 Reiterates its support for the NFPA 1600 standard and criticizes the American Society for Industrial Security’s ‘Management Systems for All-Hazards Risk - Standard of Best Practices’. Read article •Date: 25th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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‘Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan’ GAO testimony. Read article •Date: 25th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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SunGard Availability Services makes senior appointment Eric Berg becomes group chief executive officer. Read article •Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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OSHA issues new combustible dust instruction Details OSHA policies and procedures for inspecting workplaces that handle combustible dusts and that may have the potential for a dust explosion. Read article •Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Manufacturing BC
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MessageOne introduces the Incident Collaboration Center New tools will ‘dramatically ease communication and coordination after any crisis’. Read article •Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Southern California wildfires situation update There are currently seven distinct wildfires burning in Southern California and impacting on businesses and communities. For the latest FEMA situation update go to http://www.fema.gov/emergency/reports/index.shtm •Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing
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Chertoff discusses improvised explosive devices in the United States US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has addressed a symposium on improvised explosive devices and their threat to the United States. Read the transcript at http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/speeches/sp_1192831792023.shtm •Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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Crisis communications — readiness checklist Al Czarnecki’s top ten items that should be in place for crisis communications prior to an incident. Read article •Date: 19th October 2007• Region: Canada/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis comms
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Menlo Worldwide wins New York City coastal storm plan contract Menlo Worldwide, LLC, the global logistics subsidiary of Con-way Inc., has announced that it has been selected by the New York City Office of Emergency Management to warehouse and manage a large stockpile of emergency supplies that would be used in the event of a hurricane. Under the program, Menlo also would manage the distribution of relief supplies to storm shelters throughout the City in response to a large coastal storm. www.menloworldwide.com •Date: 19th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: Emergency planning
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Chertoff welcomes the appointment of Paul A. Schneider as DHS Acting Deputy Secretary Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has issued a statement in reaction to the announcement by President Bush of the intention to designate Paul A. Schneider as acting Deputy Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. Chertoff welcomed the appointment, saying: “While acting as my deputy, Paul will serve as chief operating officer with responsibility for managing day-to-day operations of the department...He has the respect and admiration of staff and my full support. I am grateful for his service and look forward to his achievements in this capacity.” •Date: 19th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing
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Radiant launches ‘Always There’ business continuity solutions
Canada-based Radiant Communications has announced the launch of its ‘AlwaysThere’ business continuity solutions designed for small and medium enterprises. Radiant's first product offering in its new suite is an enterprise-level solution for hosting Microsoft Exchange. Based on grid computing, and powered by VMware, Radiant's AlwaysThere hosted Exchange provides SME's with a secure and fully redundant Exchange environment with continuous back-ups, and virtually unlimited disk space. Read press release •Date: 19th October 2007• Region: Canada/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Backups bite back Backup volumes in many organisations have grown so large they are causing business disruption by tying up systems, storage, and network capacity and hogging valuable IT resources according to new research. Read article •Date: 18th October 2007• Region:UK/N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Canadian Securities Industry reports on business continuity test The Canadian Securities Industry has issued a bulletin giving a brief report on the recent industry-wide business continuity test. Read article •Date: 18th October 2007• Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: BC testing
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‘Mega-shelter’ agreement for Oregon Will ensure effective use of public venues in a disaster situation. Read article •Date: 16th October 2007• Region:US/ World •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Businesses divided over who poses the biggest threat Who is more risky? Office-based employees, mobile workers, guests or contractors? Read article •Date: 12th October 2007• Region:US/ World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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‘Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers’ The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a new publication that provides detailed tips on how to make web servers more resistant to potential attacks. Read article •Date: 12th October 2007• Region:US/ World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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National Strategy for Homeland Security published Includes an overview of operational resilience goals which sets out targets for continuity of operations and continuity of government planning, as well as encouraging and promoting business continuity within both the public and private sector business continuity. Read article •Date: 11th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Public comment period for Draft National Response Framework extended Deadline is now October 22 2007. Read article •Date: 11th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Gartner identifies the top 10 strategic technologies for the next three years What emerging IT continuity challenges can you expect to face? Read article •Date: 11th October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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NOAA expects US likely to have above-average winter temperatures NOAA forecasters are predicting above-average temperatures over most of the country and a continuation of drier-than-average conditions across already drought-stricken parts of the Southwest and Southeast in its winter outlook for the United States. Read press release •Date: 11th October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing
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FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure wins VARBusiness Tech Innovator of the Year 2007 Award
FalconStor Software has announced that it has been recognized for outstanding achievement in technological innovation. VARBusiness magazine has selected FalconStor as a Tech Innovator Company of the Year for the company's new FalconStor Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure in the storage category of its 2007 Tech Innovator Awards competition. www.falconstor.com •Date: 11th Oct 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets and companies
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NEC and Foreseeson partner to bring integrated application and data disaster recovery software to Canada NEC and Foreseeson Technology, a Canadian distributor of IT infrastructure products, are partnering to make NEC ExpressCluster broadly available to Canadian value-added resellers (VARs). Canadian resellers can use ExpressCluster for easy to deploy and cost-effective system continuity solutions for industry standard database, e-mail, and virtualization applications and platforms. George Wu, director of Software Business, IT Platform Group, NEC said: "NEC is looking forward to our partnership with Foreseeson to deliver the advanced training, marketing, sales and technical support needed for Canadian-based value-added resellers to take advantage of this family of powerful high availability and disaster recovery software solutions." www.necam.comwww.foreseeson.com •Date: 11th Oct 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets and companies
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Records management is a weak area in many US organizations Sixty-five percent of US public and private organizations do not have an enterprise-wide records management policy and program. Read article •Date: 9th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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When it comes to corporate reputation, negativity is contagious A new scientific study research seeks to understand the conditions where group influence is strongest. Read article •Date: 9th October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Fourth Annual National Preparedness Month ‘most successful ready effort to date’: DHS The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that a record number of national, regional, state, and local organizations participated in its fourth annual National Preparedness Month. More than 1,800 National Preparedness Month coalition members coordinated at least 1,000 events and activities across America, reaching individuals, families, businesses and diverse communities with the message of emergency preparedness. •Date: 9th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing
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Peak 10 named finalist for 2007 NCTA 21 Awards Peak 10, the US-based independent data center operator and managed services provider, has been named a finalist in the Top Customer Service Company of the Year category for the 2007 NCTA 21 Awards. Winners will be recognized at the annual awards gala on Thursday, November 15 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Cary, N.C. www.peak10.com •Date: 9th Oct 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets and companies
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researches community resilience Project in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina aims to identify what communities need to be truly resilient. Read article •Date: 5th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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American population's preparedness for disaster or emergency improves The US's RQ (Readiness Quotient) - a barometer of the public's preparedness for a weather emergency, natural disaster or terrorist attack - inched up nearly a point from 15 months ago. Read article •Date: 5th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Major disaster declared For Texas FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Texas to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by Tropical Storm Erin during the period of August 14-20, 2007. http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=41197 •Date: 5th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: DR general
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hears from Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Readiness on pandemic preparedness Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Readiness B. Tilman Jolly, M.D. has testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the subject of ‘State and Local Efforts to Prepare for Pandemic Influenza.’ Read the testimony. •Date: 5th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Briefing •Topic: Pandemic planning
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DHS provides new grants for national preparedness training initiatives The US Department of Homeland Security has announced the awarding of over $113 million in grant money under two programs that strengthen the coordinated training efforts of homeland security preparedness. Read article •Date: 4th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Energy and floor space constraints will cause significant disruptions to US enterprise data centers during next three years According to Gartner. Read article •Date: 4th October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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BakBone announces NetVault: Backup 8.0 with integrated, cross-platform continuous data protection BakBone Software has released version 8.0 of NetVault: Backup, the company's award-winning, flagship data protection solution. The release introduces integrated, continuous data protection (CDP) capabilities and also expands NetVault: Backup's feature set. Read press release. •Date: 4th October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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