UK businesses lack continuity plans

Research from analyst firm IDC has revealed that more than one in five UK big business lacks detailed business continuity plans in the event of IT downtime, states IT Pro.

The research also revealed that 71% of businesses do have an emergency IT and communications systems recovery plan in place that also provides business-critical information access in the event of an incident or disaster.

At the same time, it revealed that business continuity accountability is rising in importance up the corporate ladder, although still resting in large part within IT.

Australia's Macquarie Telecom will release "affordable business continuity" for mission-critical applications, reports Hot Search.

The company has initiated a virtualised managed fail-over disaster recovery environment which was developed in partnership with Sun Microsystems and AMD.

Built to cater for Australian business and government customers, Macquarie's disaster recovery data centre will launch this month running Sun X64 servers based on AMD multi-core technology.

Continuity Software, a provider of disaster recovery management solutions, will showcase its RecoverGuard software and DR Assurance service at the upcoming Gartner Business Continuity Management Summit, says FOX Business.

During the event, Continuity Software will show how its RecoverGuard software provides a heightened level of insight into data protection and disaster recovery environments.

It will highlight RecoverGuard's feature set - including its business service recoverability status, data dependency analysis, data protection SLA management, gap detection and optimisation engines, as well as its new interactive dashboard and recoverability threat landscape.