Intelligent Notification Systems white paper

MIR3 has released a technical White Paper demonstrating how companies can implement a consolidated solution that leverages existing communication infrastructures to improve responsiveness, productivity and efficiencies across the enterprise, according to a press release.

Entitled "Increasing the speed of enterprise communication through consolidation", the paper highlights methods to increase reliability, asset usability and significantly reduce cycle times for critical decisions and internal/external communications.

Previously deployed only for emergency notification in business continuity and disaster recovery, IT service monitoring and help desk point solutions, intelligent notification tools are now being used by companies for universal enterprise-wide communications among thousands of users.

In response to the drive for cross-border compliance in the European Union (EU), Riello UPS has introduced the Master Plus - a multi-mode uninterruptible power supply (UPS) designed for data centres and telecoms installations, IT Backbones reports.

Preparation for EU directives requires a review of every aspect of data centre and telecoms operation: data management and warehousing, process documentation, systems implementation and integration, and disaster recovery and business continuity planning where the new Master Plus design scores highly.

Many organisations still fall short in their preparedness for an IT disaster, according to the preview results of the SteelEye Technology Business Continuity Index.

Top-level findings show both growing industry-wide adoption of formalised business continuity plans (73%) and that a startling percentage of organisations have needed to invoke those plans (45%), SteelEye says in a press release.

Respondents to the international survey reported on average, they have less than 48 hours to correct outages before the downtime becomes a potentially fatal issue for their organisations, with the largest slice of organisations (32%) reporting anything more than four hours of outage as disastrous.