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4th Asia Business Continuity Awards launched
Awards are open for entries from 11 April 2011; presentations take place on 12th October in Singapore.
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•Date: 29th March 2011 • Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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NCS expands business continuity and disaster recovery center / centre in Singapore
Number of workarea recovery seats doubled to 1,400.
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•Date: 6th Jan 2011 • Region: SE Asia•Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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‘Largest disaster recovery data centre’ in Asia opened
China Daily has reported that the 1.6 billion yuan (S$314 million) Chengdu Wanguo Data Centre, the largest disaster recovery data centre in Asia, has been formally launched in the west zone of Chengdu High-tech Zone in Sichuan province.
•Date: 7th Dec 2010 • Region: SE Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC companies
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Regional pandemic exercise taking place in South-East Asia
Aims to simulate the effects of a pandemic on different sectors of an entire region’s essential services.
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•Date: 18th August 2010 • Region: SE Asia•Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Singapore Computer Society launches Certification in IT Business Continuity Management
Launch taking place at Singapore Management University event.
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•Date: 8th July 2010 • Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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IBM opens cloud computing laboratory in Singapore
IBM has announced the opening of a cloud computing laboratory in Singapore. The new lab housed at Changi Business Park is part of IBM's expansion of its global cloud computing capabilities, and puts Singapore and the ASEAN region on the map as the eleventh cloud computing lab. This new addition will be part of the network of labs in Hong Kong, Ireland, Vietnam, China, South Africa, Japan, Brazil, India, Korea and the United States. Through briefings, technology deployment and development sessions, the Singapore lab will work closely with businesses, government and research institutions and institutes of higher learning to design and deploy their own cloud environments. www.ibm.com/cloud
•Date: 5th May 2010 • Region: SE Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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Is business continuity management a dead-end?
In order to progress, the business continuity profession needs to develop executive gravitas, says Nathaniel Forbes.
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•Date: 2nd Feb 2010 • Region: SE Asia/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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BCM Institute launches business continuity auditor certification courses
The Singapore-based BCM Institute has announced that it is now offering two specialist courses on BC auditing.
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•Date: 6th Jan 2010 • Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Courses and events
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New IBM facility offers disaster recovery services to South Korean companies
IBM has announced the launch of the 'IBM Business Park,' a green data center integrated within Korea's existing Kyobo Data Center in Songdo International City, Incheon. The addition of IBM Business Park is part of the Korean government's goal to build Incheon into an international economic hub. Through the new IBM Business Park, IBM will provide a series of information technology services including strategic outsourcing, e-business hosting and disaster recovery to more than 20 clients, including Amore Pacific, Iljin and Esquire, which have entered outsourcing agreements with IBM. Read press release.
•Date: 11th Dec 2009• Region: SE Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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New COOP Systems distributor in Thailand
COOP Systems has announced that Twoplus Soft Co., Ltd. has agreed to sell and support a fully localized myCOOP business continuity software package to the Thai market. "We are very pleased to have Twoplus as a strategic partner in Asia," said Chris Alvord, CEO of COOP Systems. "The special nature of the Kingdom of Thailand, with a large population, very rapid economic growth and special exposure to pandemic risk, makes for a key target market for COOP Systems. With no other Thai-language BCM software in the market, we believe that myCOOP will be a big success.
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•Date: 13th Nov 2009• Region: SE Asia •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Double success for BCP Asia
BCP Asia becomes first company to gain certification to both British Standard BS25999 and the Singapore BCM Standard SS540:2008.
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•Date: 16th Oct 2009• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Singapore gets new Flu Pandemic Business Continuity Programme
Singapore Business Federation provides pandemic planning advice and resources; certification possible for pandemic plans.
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•Date: 8th Oct 2009• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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First multi-language risk management information system for SE Asian market
Aon eSolutions has announced the launch of RiskConsole in China and Japan.
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•Date: 27th August 2009• Region: SE Asia•Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Business continuity take-up in China
A new study by KPMG has found that a majority of companies in China have established business continuity management programs in place.
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•Date: 22nd May 2009• Region: SE Asia•Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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IDC reports on China's disaster recovery market
Spending reached US$483.1 million in 2008, a 29.9 percent increase over 2007; IDC forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 20.7 percent over 2008-2013.
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•Date:10th February 2009• Region: SE Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Singapore Exchange introduces new business continuity rules
SGX member firms must develop robust business continuity management arrangements by 2010.
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•Date:21st January 2009• Region: Singapore •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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