UK survey shows BC on the rise

A survey conducted by Computer Business review finds 80% of UK companies have some sort of business continuity plan in place, reports Continuity Central.

The survey, carried out in association with the Risk Management Expo 2007, says while business continuity planning is on the rise, the testing of these plans is still a weak area for most companies, with only 39% of respondents saying they had tested their recovery plans.

The survey results showed almost 40% of companies felt, in event of a disaster, the company could be running within a day, and 38% said it would take a week.

Atlantic Health has implemented EMC storage, software and services to set up an automated information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy for more cost-effective and improved availability of critical medical and administrative information, reports Sys-con.

Atlantic Health classified its data as mission-critical, business-critical and business-important and has stored it on the EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 system to gain more cost-efficiency, reliability and scalability.

Pat Zinno, Atlantic Health's director of infrastructure services and support, says: "Being at the forefront of medicine and technology has helped us attract more patients. By using ILM with EMC and automating data archiving and removal, we've achieved dramatic cost savings."

Data centre provider IXEurope has extended its relationship with Citibank by providing it with more business continuity and disaster recovery services, reports Byte and Switch.

The financial services sector, which is a key focus for IXEurope alongside major Internet players, is always looking for larger and more resilient data centre facilities to provide primary hosting, business continuity and disaster recovery services.

This trend has been fuelled by recent banking regulation, including the Basel II Capital, the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 and the more recent MIFID directive on trading processes.