Monthly newsletter Weekly news roundup Breaking news notification    

Business continuity briefs:
2nd July 2008

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

‘Business resiliency for the global marketplace'
iJET Intelligent Risk Systems has announced the availability of a white paper outlining organizations' changing approach to risk management, business continuity and business resiliency. To read the white paper, please visit http://www.ijet.com/news/whitepapers/index.asp Registration is required to read the paper.

Europe lags US in storage virtualization adoption
Recent surveys conducted in both the United States and Europe by ONStor, indicate that the majority of businesses surveyed in both regions believe that their existing storage solutions will only be able to scale for the next one to two years. While it has been widely recognised that storage virtualization is the best way to provide a flexible, scalable and highly available storage environment, only 27 percent of European respondents are actually implementing storage virtualization today as compared with 35 percent in the US. www.onstor.com

Continuity Forum Testing Recovery Plans Workshop
22 July 2008, Sydney
This workshop covers the fundamentals of the business continuity testing process and shows how to cost-effectively test plans as well as how to use testing to get management buy in. To register or for more information, please email Lucy at web@continuity.net.au

US Department of Labor's OSHA unveils new flood and tornado cleanup and recovery web resource
Employers and employees involved in cleanup and recovery activities following the Midwest floods and tornadoes will benefit from a new web respurce at www.dol.gov posted by the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The floods and tornadoes recovery page features links to more than 40 fact sheets and easy-reference QuickCards in English and Spanish with safety and health tips on hazards such as downed electrical wires, chain saws, general decontamination, and heat and sun, just to name a few. The information is easily accessible for downloading from the Web. Printed copies are available through local OSHA offices in the affected states. http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/flood-tornado-recovery.html

Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:

FEMA daily SITREP

World weather impacts

Click here to sign up

Date: 2nd July 2008• Region: Various




Copyright 2008 Portal Publishing LtdPrivacy policyContact usSite mapNavigation help