Deloitte develops crisis management app

Professional services firm Deloitte has developed a smartphone application which could assist organisations to handle their workplace disasters and crises, reports ITWire.

The application, developed through Deloitte's innovation programme, is called Bamboo, a unique smartphone application which stores up-to-date continuity management procedures and action-plans in a user-friendly and practical way on employees' mobile devices such as a Blackberry or iPhone.

According to Deloitte risk services managing partner Ron Loborec, this tool will revolutionise how workplace disasters and crises are handled using innovative mobile technology.

Network Executive Software (NetEx), a provider of wide-area network (WAN) software optimisation solutions, says it has extended its support for accelerating third-party data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery applications, states Computer Technology Review.

The company does this by certifying products from Veeam Software, Dell, EqualLogic, Microsoft, Quantum and AppAssure for operation with its HyperIP WAN optimisation software.

With these latest additions, HyperIP now accelerates and optimises WAN-based performance for more than 40 applications from various vendors.

Microsoft has unveiled a set of reference architectures called Hyper-V Cloud that make it easier for businesses to build their own private cloud infrastructures using the Windows Server Platform, reveals Computing.

Microsoft has partnered with HP, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi and IBM on one of these architectures, called Hyper-V Fast Track. The partners will work together to provide an integrated infrastructure that promises to reduce risk and increase speed of migration to the private cloud.

“There is still a degree of complexity when considering data centres,” said Lucas Searle, Microsoft UK's head of virtualisation.