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'Business
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EULUX 2007, a large scale disaster response exercise is taking place from 6 to 9 June 2007 in Luxembourg. The Luxembourg Rescue Services Agency (Administration des services de secours du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg), in collaboration with the European Commission and several partner countries, is running the exercise which is putting the European Commission’s civil protection mechanism to the test in scenarios which include a release of radiological and chemical substances as well as the collapse of a critical infrastructure. http://www.eulux2007.eu/
The Australian Customs Services has chosen IBM for a five-year services deal with an estimated value of more than AUD 160m ($134.5m), taking over work that EDS had previously performed. The contract will include mainframe and midrange services, and disaster recovery. Read the story
17th -18th October 2007, National Hall at Olympia, London.
Storage Expo is the UK's largest event dedicated to data storage. Now in its 7th year, the show features a comprehensive free education programme, and over 100 exhibitors. www.storage-expo.com
PlateSpin Ltd. has announced that the company has won the 2007 ‘Virtualization Technology of the Year’ award as part of The Banker Technology Awards. PlateSpin's solutions enable customers to take a unified approach to managing, moving and protecting all workloads in the data centre. Within a single technology platform investment, data centres can leverage PlateSpin's workload awareness and anywhere-to-anywhere (X2X) workload migration capabilities to solve critical IT challenges such as server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery. www.platespin.com
World weather impacts
•Date: 8th June 2007• Region: Various
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