UK financial sector market-wide business continuity exercise takes place On Monday 28th November, many financial sector firms took part in the UK’s largest ever market-wide exercise. Read article •Date: 29th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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Competing in the age of the continuous enterprise… Large financial institutions are well aware of the cost of downtime – but it’s time other sectors took the issue more seriously… Read article •Date: 25th Nov 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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European Commission adopts a green paper on critical infrastructure protection Outlines prevention, preparedness and response options. Read article •Date: 25th Nov 2005 • Region: W.Europe/UK • Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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Central London data centres - too many eggs in one basket? The high concentration of data centres within the M25 is itself a serious threat to the integrity of a business’s data security strategy, says Kelly Smith… Read article •Date: 25th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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When considering business insurance, don’t forget people… A letter to the editor. Read article •Date: 25th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Phoenix IT Group publishes interim financial results Phoenix IT Group plc, the UK IT services company and parent to disaster recovery company NDR, has announced its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2005. The company saw revenue up 32 percent to £54.8m (2004: £41.5m) and profit from operations increased by 17 percent to £9.6m (2004: £8.2m). NDR contributed £2.1m to the 2005 profit figure. •Date: 25th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Risks of acoustic shock to call centre workers highlighted The Communication Workers Union has highlighted an incident at a BT call centre in Aberdeen, where workers suffered multiple acoustic shocks over a two day period on October 20 and 21 from white noise bursts transmitted through their headsets. A total of 45 out of the 160 BT telephone operators in the call centre received around 145 shocks in total as their headsets failed to provide the protection they needed. Staff are now making representations to BT through the CWU, which believes BT managers should have shut down the call centre as soon as the fault was detected, rather than putting their members at risk by continuing operations. •Date: 25th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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UK government makes energy crisis contingency plans The Financial Times has reported that government ministers are ‘drawing up confidential plans for dealing with a gas supply emergency this winter’. Read article •Date: 24th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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e-Science project discovers new knowledge about earthquakes New Discovery Net technology for geohazard modelling could be used to build up a comprehensive geological fault line map of the earth. Read article •Date: 24th Nov 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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IXEurope developing new London data centre IXEurope has announced that it has acquired a new site to convert into a data centre in London to accommodate strong growth from the corporate market. With approximately 30,000 square feet of space, the data centre is located in Park Royal, West London. it will become IXEurope’s third facility in London and tenth across Europe following its acquisition last month of a 13-acre (5 hectare) data centre and business continuity campus in Frankfurt, Germany. www.ixeurope.com •Date: 24th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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UK Met Office to hold winter briefing for emergency planners and business managers Aims to help organisations prepare for the expected ‘harder than usual’ winter. Read article •Date: 22nd Nov 2005 • Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Prepare for MiFID FSA warns of major compliance challenge for UK firms. Read article •Date: 22nd Nov 2005 • Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Global Health Security Initiative agrees bioterror and pandemic ‘flu action plans Members of the Global Health Security Initiative met recently in Rome to discuss the international response to deliberate actions, such as terrorism, and naturally occurring threats to global health, such as pandemic 'flu. Read article •Date: 22nd Nov 2005 • Region: Various • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Reed Exhibitions acquires Business Continuity Expo and Technology for Compliance Expo In a joint statement Reed Exhibitions and IMP Events have announced an agreement that will see Reed Exhibitions take full ownership of both the Business Continuity Expo and Technology for Compliance Expo events. To ensure stability in exhibitor and supplier relationships, IMP Events will retain full management responsibility and control over the delivery of the 2006 events and will remain involved in a consultative capacity for the 2007 events. Business Continuity and Technology for Compliance will take place at ExCeL in London on the 15th & 16th March 2006. •Date: 22nd Nov 2005 • Region: UK• Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Business continuity guidelines for coping with a global 'flu pandemic to be developed A project designed to address the specific issue of business continuity during a global flu pandemic is being organised by Survive, with support from Tamiflu manufacturer Roche Products Limited. Read article •Date: 18th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Unencrypted backup tapes ‘still the norm’ Warnings about the vulnerability of backup tapes have gone unheeded… Read article •Date: 17th Nov 2005 • Region: UK/US/World • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Continuity Planning Associates launches Crisis Commsuite New tool’s principal purpose is to ease the free flow of communication between multiple teams in multiple locations during crises. Read article •Date: 17th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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McAlpine business continuity has knock-on performance benefits Construction company, Alfred McAlpine, has found that a £500,000 IT investment to improve its business continuity has had knock-on benefits to application performance. Read story •Date: 15th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic:BC general
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Continuity Central pandemic planning survey results The vast majority of business continuity managers believe that it is important that pandemic impacts are covered by BCPs - however levels of preparation vary greatly from sector to sector. Read article •Date: 11th Nov 2005 •Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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FSA publishes Resilience Benchmarking update The UK’s FSA has reported that 62 participants completed their Resilience Benchmarking surveys on time. The analysis is almost complete and a Discussion Paper will be published in mid-December. The Resilience Benchmarking project is aiming to discover how resilient and recoverable the UK financial system would be in the face of a major operational disruption. •Date: 11th Nov 2005 •Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Financial sector
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Crisis Checklist: the press office The first in a series of ‘print and keep’ checklists to provide a plan development aide-mémoire. Read article •Date: 11th Nov 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Long term solutions to Britain’s energy short-fall explored A multidisciplinary report which aims to provide the UK government with a coherent, feasible solution to the acknowledged problem of the UK's looming ‘energy gap’ has been published. Read article •Date: 11th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Power managenent
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Average UK business suffers 235 hours of downtime every year According to survey of FTSE 750 organisations. Read article •Date: 10th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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UK government surveying businesses about climate change adaptation plans Organisations from the public and private sector are being asked by Defra what actions they are taking to adapt to the changing climate. The consultation, which will include small and large businesses, as well as public sector organisations, is aimed at gaining an overall picture of what work and plans are in place. Defra expects to find that preparation for climate impacts may involve building adaptive capacity in the form of research or data collection or forming partnerships or internal organisational development. It may also mean moving location, redesigning buildings or working with others to spread the possible losses. http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/cc-nap-framework/index.htm •Date: 10th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic:BC general
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New avian influenza resources published by government The Health Protection Agency has issued revised interim guidelines for the investigation and reporting of suspected human cases of avian influenza. These can be viewed here (PDF). In addition, the HSE has made an avian influenza factsheet available. •Date: 10th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic:BC general
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New technology trends: the Adaptive WAN Michael Mullaley explains how an Adaptive WAN can contribute to IT continuity. Read article
•Date: 8th Nov 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Many European companies housing mission critical equipment in unsuitable premises 41 percent of companies surveyed across Europe are putting their mission critical IT systems at risk due to this issue. Read article •Date: 8th Nov 2005 • Region: UK/W.Europe • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Remote data backup yet to take off in UK SME sector BT and Institute of Directors survey explores SME attitudes to data backup. Read article •Date: 8th Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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A major pandemic checklist and assessment matrix What factors should be considered when developing a business continuity plan for pandemic scenarios? Ian Rogers offers some useful checklist style advice. Read article •Date: 4th Nov 2005 •Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC plan development
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BS 7799 becomes ISO 27001 ISO 27001 international information security standard published to replace BS 7799. Read article •Date: 4th Nov 2005 • Region: UK/World • Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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UK Tripartite Authorities publish ‘Financial Sector Business Continuity Annual Report’ The report warns against complacency following the success in keeping financial markets operating during the July 7th terrorist attacks. Read article •Date: 2nd Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector BC
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As BT and OFCOM agree final undertakings, GemaTech gains access to BT exchanges GemaTech can now offer a cost effective business continuity solution for voice telecoms to British Telecom customers. Read article •Date: 2nd Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
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UK clothes retailer loses half its warehoused stock in huge fire Primark, the UK clothes retailer owned by Associated British Foods, has had its main UK storage warehouse destroyed by fire. The 440,000 sq ft facility in Lutterworth Leicestershire was the hub of the company’s supply and logistics operation. Read the full story •Date: 2nd Nov 2005 • Region: UK • Type: Briefing •Topic: BC general
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