Continuity plans need work

Some work is needed to increase the "quality and maturity" of continuity plans, according to a Gartner survey, reports NURS.

Almost 60% of the organisations questioned said they had only planned for their longest "outage" to be seven days.

Roberta Witty, research VP at Gartner, said the findings suggested that the majority of businesses would find it difficult to sustain business operations in the event of a disaster.

Data centres are set to hit the seas to be more environmentally friendly and to protect against natural disasters, reports OneStopClick.

International Data Security (IDS), a new American company, plans to launch 50 ships containing data centres all around the world.

The company says it will make use of old ships being sold for scrap and will offer services like business continuity and disaster recovery, call centres and SAN and NAS storage.

Evolve Technologies has unveiled its new Backup Disaster Recovery (BDR) and Offsite Backup services, designed for multiple Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 servers, according to Business Wire.

This latest addition to Evolve Technologies' service portfolio is a continuation of the company's targeted strategic growth initiatives, started in 2007.

Recent corporate expansion news included the October 2007 release of a comprehensive business continuity solution, which incorporated LiveArchive, AntiSpam and E-mail Security options to enhance ExchangeDefender for Evolve Technologies' customers.