news headlines: 9th May 2008

Human resilience strategies: the reflective phase
The last in a series of articles looking at human resource aspects of business continuity management.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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SGX issues consultation paper on business continuity management framework
Business continuity management requirements will have to be adopted and implemented by SGX member firms.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: Asia Pacific •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Business Continuity Awards 2008 : the winners
On the evening of 8th May 2008, CIR magazine presented its Business Continuity Awards to this year’s winners. The awards went to...
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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New study shows high threat of big California quake
California has more than a 99 percent chance of having a magnitude 6.7 or larger earthquake within the next 30 years, according to scientists using a new model to determine the probability of big quakes.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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UK remains under-prepared for flooding, warns EFRA Select Committee
The infrastructure to deal with last year’s floods was, and still is, in an ‘unclear and chaotic state’.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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Reform Institute applauds Congressional focuses on ‘Resilience’
Reform Institute to participate in ‘Resilience Month’ hearings in Washington.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Marathon launches the world’s first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization
‘everRun VM’ offers high availability and sophisticated disaster recovery to mid-market companies.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Continuum Consultancy wins award
Ireland-based Continuum Consultancy has been presented with the ICT Excellence Awards 2008 'Technology Partnership of the Year Award' for its Continuum Plus crisis communications software.
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•Date: 9th May 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis comms
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Marketing the Business Continuity Program
• Fraud - prevention is better than cure
• NIMS final comment period, May 1 - May 30
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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