news headlines: 12th JUNE 2008

Norfolk students get savvy about business continuity
Deborah Stewart and Alan Goulder overview a programme that has helped to introduce business continuity to young people.
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•Date: 13th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New academic report identifies pandemic planning weaknesses in European businesses
Government advice is insufficient to ensure that the private sector is equipped to deal with a pandemic.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Accenture’s Delivery Centers in India receive BS 25999 certification
First BS 25999 certification in Asia.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: Asia •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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GAO releases two reports into US disaster preparedness
FEMA and DHS planning under the spotlight.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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The 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report
Contrary to popular wisdom a new survey finds that most data breaches are caused by external rather than internal sources.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Two-thirds of UK companies lack confidence in their ability to recover Microsoft Exchange
According to survey.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Australian government statement on regional gas supply problems
Disruption to gas supplies affecting businesses in Western Australia.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: Australia •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Kroll Ontrack announces data recovery breakthrough on VMware virtualized environments
Kroll Ontrack has announced that it has become the first company to have the ability to perform data recovery services on VMware systems.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Stratus ‘opens a new chapter in high availability’
New Avance software delivers low-cost high availability, virtualization and business continuity.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Data protection, recovery and replication software demand driving storage software market growth
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 18th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the first quarter of 2008 with revenues of $2.9 billion.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• IBM announces next-generation storage virtualization software
• RMS makes expert catastrophe analysis publicly available
• Storix provides backup and adaptable system recovery software for Solaris
• Crisis Management Conference and Crisis Management Workshops
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
   - Federal, State, Local flood response operations continue in Midwest US
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