Accenture achieves BSI certification

Accenture's delivery centres for technology and business process outsourcing in India have been awarded the British Standards Institute's certification for business continuity, states Edubourse.com.

The international standard that provides an independent assessment of an organisation's business continuity is designed to help companies develop and implement a robust business continuity plan.

The BSI certification standard has been designed to enable companies to continue operating under the most challenging and unexpected circumstances or disasters.

Postilion, a provider of integrated solutions for payments and self-service banking and a division of S1 Corporation, and GoldenGate Software have announced that Postilion has validated the GoldenGate Live Standby and Zero Downtime Operations solutions through a series of intensive, multiplatform prototypes and tests, reports CNN Money.

In addition to Postilion's internal disaster recovery solutions, Postilion will also provide support for its customers to deploy its payment system with GoldenGate's disaster tolerance solutions.

Postilion has validated its solutions with GoldenGate's transactional data management architecture on the AIX and DB2 data server on IBM Power Systems, as well as Microsoft Windows running SQL Server databases.

Smaller businesses often view disaster recovery planning (DRP) as the IT equivalent of a high-cost insurance policy they'll never redeem, says bMighty.com.

That makes building a business case for DRP difficult at the best of times. Given the gloomy economic outlook for 2008/9, IT departments everywhere are cutting or postponing projects.

But for IT departments still moving ahead with DRP projects, understanding the distinction between DRP and business continuity planning will keep the disaster recovery work on budget and on track.