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news headlines: 27th JUNE 2008

Community resilience: the next stage in business continuity thinking?
A comment by David Honour, editor, Continuity Central.
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Date: 27th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Invocations explored...
SunGard Availability Services has released a breakdown of all its UK invocations since 1995. The results show some interesting trends.
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Date: 27th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Roche introduces program to facilitate corporate pandemic stockpiling of Tamiflu
Offers businesses new flexibility for pandemic planning.
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Date: 27th June 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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Microsoft launches latest virtualization technology
Following the launch of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft reached another milestone this week with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology.
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Date: 27th June 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New disaster recovery facility opened in McClellan, CA
Quest's new Business Resumption Center offers both work-area and data recovery space.
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Date: 27th June 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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BSI’s 3rd Annual BCM Conference
‘Improving Business Continuity Management: BS 25999 and Beyond’, 16 July 2008, London.
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Date: 27th June 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• IDC survey highlights growth in business continuity as a priority for IT managers in the Asia/Pacific region
• 3Tera delivers disaster recovery in the cloud
• Gartner says cloud computing will be as influential as e-business
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts

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Global Equities wins award for business continuity innovation

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Olympic Delivery Authority invests in business continuity

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New ISO standard for corporate governance of information technology

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Terremark launches the Enterprise Cloud

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Smartphone risk to organisations highlighted

AT&T 2008 Business Continuity Study

Telecity opens new Powergate London data centre

BCI aims for Asia chapter

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Small business disaster planning resource now available in Spanish

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Are we training effectively?

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BCI ‘Masters Workshop’ to explore future directions for BCM

Red Cross Disaster Response Challenge

NOAA publishes hurricane season forecasts

Heatwave Plan for England updated

ICM to officially open London SouthWest Business Continuity Centre

Singapore taskforce to promote corporate resilience

RELDATA offers disaster recovery solution for Fibre Channel SAN

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Kidnap checklist

‘Preparing for Pandemic Influenza: Supplementary Guidance for Local Resilience Forum planners’

Define your day after: DHS urges small businesses

Hybrid attacks gaining ground

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Business continuity case study: Glasgow airport

Confused and disjointed...

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US securities industry prepares for business continuity test

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2008 Hurricane Preparedness Week

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