Strohl releases PLANet 3

PLANet 3 an online business continuity planning (BCP) tool designed specifically for community financial institutions has been released by Strohl Systems.

The company says over 1 000 organisations have selected PLANet to build, test and maintain their business continuity plans, as well as guides users through the planning process step-by-step to ensure compliance.

"PLANet 3 will assist financial institutions that may not have in-house planning expertise or resources," said Eric Strohl, vice president of Strohl Systems. "This new version helps users to meet the FFIEC and NCUA requirements."

Sententia has become Australia's first reseller for Mimosa Systems' next-generation email archiving and recovery software solution, Mimosa NearPoint, reports ComputerWorld.

Mimosa NearPoint addresses customer requirements around email archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, data protection, disaster recovery, and storage optimisation. The solution provides immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email archiving, and self-service search and access in one solution.

Microsoft Exchange has clearly become the most critical application for our customers," said J.P. Clemence, chief executive officer at Sententia. "Organisations of all sizes and across all verticals must be able to ensure reliability and protection of their email data. In addition, they recognise a need to manage and retain email as a business record and to quickly discover email information.

According to a new report by the Aberdeen Group, the once clearly defined differences in high availability, business continuance and disaster recovery are becoming blurred as more end users try to centralise the process of keeping businesses running 24/7.

The report titled "High Availability: Data Protection and Recovery for Continuous Uptime, shows that the process of protecting businesses against risk is evolving and it is becoming more centralised.

The research also found that organisations understand the importance of high availability in insuring their applications and data are available continuously. 80% of end users cited the need to reduce unplanned downtime as the top business driver behind their high availability strategy, while 75% named the need to reduce the financial risk of data loss. 65% named the need for applications to be up and running 24/7.