UK government takes first steps towards a National Flood Emergency Framework Scoping document published in response to the Pitt Review. Read article •Date: 31st July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Tripartite Authorities release pandemic exercise materials Useful resources from the Market-wide Exercise 2006 published. Read article •Date: 31st July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Testing and exercising
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British businesses under flood-threat are failing to make IT continuity plans According to a new survey. Read article •Date: 31st July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Cultural conditioning – the training dilemma James Royds highlights the benefits that exercising brings to the whole business continuity lifecycle. Read article •Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced
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Protecting virtual infrastructures with data replication What is the best way to protect virtual servers and keep them highly available? Read article •Date: 18th July 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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New WiMAX business continuity service for UK market ‘Diverse Backup’ ends inherent risk of last mile local loop. Read article •Date: 18th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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SunGard to open new UK business recovery centre Latest facility will be at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Read article •Date: 15th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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BCI Summer School focuses on business continuity in the public sector 12th and 13th August, 2008, Nottingham, UK. Read article •Date: 15th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Onyx Group acquires local IT firm Fast growing North East England based technology solutions company Onyx Group has formally announced the acquisition of part of a local IT company for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Ponteland based NCS (Newcastle Computer Services), is the second acquisition for Onyx Group this year, after Scotland’s Campbell Lee plc. NCS has forged a strong and well recognised presence in the design and print marketplace, which is dependent on system resilience and recovery. This is a further strategic fit with Onyx Group, which focuses on providing organisations with the infrastructure and facilities to become truly resilient. Onyx owns three workplace recovery facilities, in Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Glasgow. www.onyx.net •Date: 15th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Whitty to lead Battlebox After a 27 year career at HP, Jim Whitty has been appointed as managing director of Battlebox Business Continuity Ltd. The company supplies specialist battleboxes to UK organisations. www.battlebox.biz •Date: 15th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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'Back in 60 minutes' hosted disaster recovery service launched for UK SMEs FalconStor Software has partnered with Atlanta Technology to deliver a new hosted disaster recovery service for small and medium-sized businesses. Read article •Date: 11th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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ALARM Annual Awards results At its recent annual awards dinner at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel ALARM presented its 2008 risk management awards. Read article •Date: 9th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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Vodafone UK publishes Critical Response Time Index Research provides information which helps in planning email recovery time objectives. Read article •Date: 7th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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Vacuum packaging for long term document storage assurance Stored financial documents are better protected by vacuum packaging. Read article •Date: 7th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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‘Planning For and Managing Emergencies in Higher Education Institutions’ New guidance with the above title has been published by the Association of University Chief Security Officers and funded by HEFCE. The document is available from the EPS website as a PDF. •Date: 7th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Briefing
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‘Risk & Resilience: The Application Availability Gamble’ New report finds that one in five organizations suffer failures resulting in tangible business damage at least quarterly. Read article •Date: 2nd July 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Community resilience: the next stage in business continuity thinking? A comment by David Honour, editor, Continuity Central. Read article •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. Read article •Date: 27th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
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BSI’s 3rd Annual BCM Conference ‘Improving Business Continuity Management: BS 25999 and Beyond’, 16 July 2008, London. Read article •Date: 27th June 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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Business continuity a central plank of the Pitt Review Final report into the 2007 UK floods looks at the lessons learned and makes 92 recommendations. Read article •Date: 26th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Reactions to the Pitt Review report A roundup of how various organisations have responded to the recommendations made in ‘Learning Lessons from the 2007 Floods’. Read article •Date: 26th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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Norwich Union Risk Services offers supply chain business continuity management advice Too many firms that depend on others are putting their businesses at risk by failing to prepare for supply chain disruption... Read article •Date: 26th June 2008• Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Institution of Civil Engineers publishes flood resiliency report ‘Flooding: Engineering Resilience’ discusses vulnerabilities in the UK’s critical infrastructure network. Read article •Date: 26th June 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Emergency planning
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UK government takes first steps towards a National Flood Emergency Framework
