Business continuity briefs:
Friday 22nd October 2004

'Business continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services press releases and other useful resources published in the last 24 hours.

Sector and Eagle Rock to offer disaster recovery
Sector, Inc., a managed services, communications, professional services and data distribution provider for the US financial services industry, and Eagle Rock Alliance, Ltd. a management consulting firm specialising in business continuity, disaster recovery and business resiliency services, have announced a strategic alliance enabling Sector to offer BC/DR compliance services powered by Eagle Rock's industry leading expertise and proven methods and tools. This alliance offers customers in the financial services industry sector specific BC and DR solutions.

KASHYA reveals the ‘next generation of cost-effective, long distance data protection’
Kashya has launched KBX5000, an advanced data protection appliance for SAN environments. Based on the company’s Kashya Data Protection Appliance architecture, the KBX5000 solution enables consistent, system-wide disaster recovery across corporate data centres regardless of the distances separating them. KBX5000 easily and cost-effectively replicates and recovers data across remote locations and in multi-platform environments using any hardware. www.kashya.com

Internet copyright chaos undermines top brands
New research shows that household names are completely failing to protect their brands online. 95 percent of the BusinessWeek/Interbrand Top 100 Global Brands have no protection or copyright mechanisms on internet images, enabling their intellectual property to be easily stolen or copied. The research was carried out by brand asset management software company Brandworkz to ascertain the state of copyright image protection on the World Wide Web. As well as a lack of copyright protection the research found that the 92 percent of images had no embedded information such as copyright notices or photographer details - risking the use of out of date or copyright expired material.

“The global nature of the web is a major challenge for big brands,” commented Jens Lundgaard, CEO, Brandworkz. “On one hand they benefit from access to a worldwide audience, but they risk undermining hard-won brand equity by failing to protect their intellectual property and risking confusion through use of inconsistent, out of date images. Our research shows that household names are completely failing to protect their brands online.”

ICM notches up eight consecutive years of Lloyd’s accreditation
ICM Computer Group Plc has been re-awarded the Certificate of Approval by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance for Business Continuity Planning and Computer Recovery Services. ICM’s specialist business continuity service enables companies impacted by a disaster to be relocated and functioning within four hours of invoking ICM’s emergency recovery service. The accreditation recognises ICM’s retained success rate of 100 percent disaster recovery support, along with consistently high levels of service delivery achievement and innovative approach.

The certificate with Lloyd’s is renewed every two years and ICM have qualified for the highly specialised certification since 1996, including an update to the accreditation in 2003. Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance has also awarded accreditations to ICM for the company’s provision of managed services, repairs and refurbishment of computer equipment. www.icm-computer.co.uk

EVault introduces high availability data protection solutions
EVault, Inc., has introduced ‘EVault Continuum Server’, a high availability storage solution designed to provide continuous data protection and quick recovery of business critical database applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. Leveraging new mirroring, snapshot and data replication technologies, EVault Continuum Server provides continuous availability for those businesses increasingly reliant on critical databases applications, such as for email, CRM and ERP. More information

Business continuity dictionary published
CPM has published a dictionary of business continuity, security and emergency management terms. With over 2500 listings, the dictionary costs $34.95, plus shipping. Order form

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•Date: 22nd October 2004 • Region: Various