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No disturbances expected for electricity supply this summer under usual weather conditions.
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•Date: 18th July 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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System uses liquid methanol as an alternative backup power source.
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•Date: 18th July 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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The largest growth area for virtualization use over the past year, particularly in small and medium businesses, is improving disaster recovery, backup, and enhancing availability.
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•Date: 9th July 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Global Equities, a Paris-based institutional financial services company, has won the prestigious Trophee de L’Innovation for pioneering use of technology.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Report highlights good practice in the management of USB Flash Drives.
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•Date: 19th June 2008• Region:W.Europe/ UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Government advice is insufficient to ensure that the private sector is equipped to deal with a pandemic.
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•Date: 12th June 2008• Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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A new Directive will require European critical infrastructure owners to compile an Operator Security Plan covering the identification of important assets; a risk analysis; and the identification, selection and prioritisation of counter-measures and procedures.
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•Date: 10th June 2008• Region: Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Frankfurt recovery centre grows from 85 to 250 work area seats.
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•Date: 10th June 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
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The Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) will conduct a disaster response field exercise from 1st to 5th June 2008 in the region of the Finnish capital Helsinki.
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•Date: 30th May 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Testing and exercising
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Research and training facility is a response to last year’s major cyber attack on Estonian public and private institutions.
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•Date: 15th May 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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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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Aims to become the first choice business continuity and disaster recovery training and certification body in Asia, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa by 2010.
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Includes a handbook, which will be delivered to every household in the country, supported by business continuity planning advice for organisations.
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Study finds that companies are failing to overcome a ‘perception gap’ in their approach to BCM.
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Country fails to plan for major accidents at installations where hazardous substances are present.
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•Date: 8th April 2008• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC manufacturing
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Krakow : 18 April 2008, Amsterdam : 25 April 2008, Madrid : 7 May 2008, Moscow : 12 May 2008, Leuven : 16 May 2008, Nunspeet : 21 May 2008, Warsaw: 11 June 2008.
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According to survey of major UK and European companies.
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The judges’ panel deciding Awards for the forthcoming ceremony at the 4th Data Centres Europe event, taking place at the Intercontinental Park Lane, London (10-11 April) have announced the shortlisted companies. In the Best Disaster Recovery Provider Award category the judges selected eBRC (Luxembourg), Equinix and Mainroad (Portugal) for the shortlist.
Civil protection chiefs meet.
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New report analyses current trends in certification and offers six recommendations to improve network and information security in Europe.
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The European Commission has adopted a communication on reinforcing the European Union's disaster response capacity.
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‘Business and IT Continuity: Overview and Implementation Principles’.
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67 percent of Irish businesses have no disaster recovery plan: survey.
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Continuity Central’s quarterly peer-reviewed advanced level publication.
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Exercises will involve earthquake and flooding simulations, and will be led by organisations from five European countries.
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Requires flood risk management to be negotiated across national borders.
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Publicly Available Specification ISO/PAS 22399:2007.
Disaster recovery initiatives cited as the leading reason for expansions.
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Iron Mountain Incorporated has bought Datastroy, an Irish secure shredding company. The acquisition enables Iron Mountain to offer its customers a complete chain of custody service in Ireland, collecting records in the first instance, through to securely shredding and recycling them at the end of their lifecycle. Iron Mountain will now be able to offer its complete range of records management, data protection and secure shredding services to more than 1,500 customers across the region. www.ironmountain.com
FalconStor Software has announced that its IPStortechnology has been chosen by IntelliStorage and I-Tech, to power Continuity Solutions B.V., their newly formed joint-venture, whose aim is to provide data protection services targeting both enterprise and small and medium-sized businesses in The Netherlands. By incorporating FalconStor technologies into Continuity Center, its SLA delivery platform, Continuity Solutions will automate delivery of its broadband, virtual server and storage infrastructure services, branded under the 'Flexi' and 'Sure' service marks. Read press release.
The Irish Branch of the Emergency Planning Society (EPS) is presenting a conference on emergency planning for the Dublin financial services district on Thursday November 15th.
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Managing risk is a priority, but less than a third of banks take an integrated approach to information management.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Finance BC
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Official launch on Thursday 8 November 2007.
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Austria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden will receive written warnings.
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•Date: 18th October 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Manufacturing
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Spain is on high alert after a car bomb attack in the country's Basque region which authorities blame on the armed separatist group ETA. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place just days after the arrest of most of the top leaders of the outlawed radical nationalist party Batasuna. Source: Euro News
CA has announced the delivery of a complete recovery management system for Tourism Ireland. The solution was implemented in partnership with Deft, a provider of IT professional services in Ireland. The business continuity and data protection solution enables Tourism Ireland to minimise disruption to global marketing campaigns, increase staff productivity and provide a secure platform for growth into emerging markets. The solution uses CA XOsoft WANSync and replicates all of Tourism Ireland's critical e-mail data. Tourism Ireland estimates that CA's solution can recover over 230 gigabytes of e-mail data in less than one hour; this would have taken up to three days prior to the deployment. More information on the CA recovery management system.
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Would react immediately to emergencies, providing expert disaster and crisis management resources.
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•Date: 6th Sept 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
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System aimed at preventing wide-area power outages.
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•Date: 4th Sept 2007• Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power man.
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The European Commission have been informed by the German authorities of an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza on a duck farm in Bavaria, in a region where infected wild birds were detected in July and early August. Upon suspicion of the virus, the German authorities immediately applied the necessary control measures laid down under EU legislation. Diagnostic tests carried out by Germany’s national laboratory confirmed the virus to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain. More information.
•Date: 31st August 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing
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Archive practitioners confirm ‘long term information retention crisis’.
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•Date: 10th August 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Survey finds a worrying discrepancy between IT managers' perception of the protection they have in place and their real state of security.
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•Date: 1st August 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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Kevin Hanson, Head of Business Continuity Management, AIB, describes the relocation of his firm’s main data centres and the lessons learned.
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•Date: 19th July 2007• Region: W.Europe/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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Iron Mountain has established its first presence in the Greek market with the acquisition of a minority interest in SafeDoc, an Athens-based records and information management company. The company will operate as a joint venture with Iron Mountain holding options to acquire further shares in the company over the next five years.
•Date: 17th July 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
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Such a standard would be ‘undesirable’.
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Although in the past terrorists used explosives or improvised explosive devices, they may in the future resort to non-conventional means such as biological weapons or materials. Some of these materials have the capacity to infect thousands of people, contaminate soil, buildings and transport assets, destroy agriculture and infect animal populations and eventually affect any food and feed at any stage in the food supply chain. The risk of "bioterrorist" attack has been statistically low, but its consequences can be devastating. If a deliberate introduction of deadly pathogens or a naturally occurring disease outbreak were to occur in the European Union or be imported from a third country, it is possible that it could affect several Member States simultaneously or spread across borders and have considerable economic and social impact. A new European Commission green paper has been published to stimulate a debate on this subject and to launch a process of consultation at European level on how to reduce biological risks, and to enhance preparedness and response. More details•Date: 12th July 2007• Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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Strohl Systems has announced a partnership with Getronics to provide European hosting services for Strohl's On Demand business continuity software, LDRPS. Hosted at Getronics secure, redundant facility in the Netherlands LDRPS Essential and LDRPS Professional On Demand versions are now available to be hosted with Strohl in the US or with Getronics in the Netherlands. http://www.strohlsystems.com
•Date: 14th June 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC software
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Employers have a great opportunity to reduce the risk of fraud and create a healthy corporate culture but many are missing the trick.
Read article•Date: 1st June 2007 • Region: UK/Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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The Government of Poland and the World Bank have signed a €140 million loan to co-finance the Government’s Odra River Basin Flood Protection Project. This will finance part of the total project cost estimated at €505 million; the balance will be financed by the European Union Cohesion Fund, the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), and the Government of Poland. The Project, which will be implemented over a six-year period will provide protection against flooding in several major towns and settlements in the voivodships of Slaskie, Opolskie and Dolnoslaskie.
•Date: 17th May 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing•Topic: Emergency planning
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According to Global Switch survey.
Read article•Date: 11th May 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: BC stats
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MiFID will expose existing security flaws as well as introducing new threats that will need to be managed.
Read article•Date: 4th May 2007 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: Financial sector
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Formal communication explains future expectations in the area of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs).
Read article•Date: 3rd May 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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UK at the bottom of the league when it comes to testing.
Read article•Date: 27th April 2007 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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European Parliament and Council reach agreement on the new Floods Directive.
Read article•Date: 26th April 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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Euro News has reported that police in the Basque country are on high alert following the arrest of eight suspected ETA members. Police raids uncovered faked police documents, a pistol stolen from a French arms factory and a reported 30 kilos of explosive. Basque Interior Minister Javier Balza said the police are working on the basis that ETA is planning new attacks.
TelecityRedbus also picks up a couple of awards.
IXEurope, Europe’s specialist datacentre services company, has announced the opening of its second IXDatacentre in the Saint-Denis region of Paris. Named Paris2, this site is the fourteenth IXDatacentre in Europe. IXEurope has been present in France since 2000 with its Paris1 IXDatacentre in the industrial park of Northern Paris II, near Charles-de-Gaulle Airport. With the opening of this new site, IXEurope provides greater capacity to meet the growing regional demand for datacentre services for primary, secondary and business continuity sites. Both IXDatacentres (Roissy and Paris) will be inter-connected by an optical fibre network providing a dual site solution. www.ixeurope.com
•Date: 22nd March 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: IT continuity
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According to a Global Switch survey.
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•Date: 22nd March 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Article •Topic: Power man.
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Company board directors should 'prioritise the physical housing of IT equipment within the overall business continuity planning process'.
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•Date: 13th March 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe•Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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'Business Continuity Planning - Responding to an Influenza Pandemic’ published by the Irish government.
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•Date: 6th March 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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The deadline to submit proposals for grant funded projects under the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection programme has been extended from 29 March 2007 to 16th April 2007. More details
•Date: 6th March 2007 • Region: W.Europe/UK •Type: Briefing •Topic: Terrorism
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IAEM Europa will provide information, networking and professional opportunities, to advance the emergency management profession in the region.
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Ian Clark, FBCI, asks whether there is a growing transatlantic divide when it comes to the general understanding of what business continuity management is.
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The European Commission has adopted a Communication on the protection of critical infrastructure in energy and transport setting out criteria which can be used to identify European infrastructure in this area.
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•Date: 6th Feb 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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90 percent of companies surveyed are not performing weekly test restores as suggested by best practice…
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Urgent action required to prevent future similar incidents.
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Business Continuity Awareness Week in Europe is scheduled for 26th-30th March. Ideas to help you plan for activities within your company during this week can be found at: http://www.thebci.org/bcaw.htm
•Date: 1st February 2007 • Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Briefing •Topic: Events
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Storm of the decade caused damage across the UK, through Belgium and the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic.
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Over 8 million kronor (nearly £600,000) has disappeared in three months as a result of tailor-made Trojans launched by Russian criminals.
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•Date: 24th January 2007 • Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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The European Commission is seeking feedback on how best to safeguard electronic networks against disruption from attack or natural hazards.
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The Oil Supply Group will meet to address oil supply disruptions to the EU and determine potential contingency measures.
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Ten things to consider adding to your to-do list. By David Honour.
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