UK urged to review Olympics impact

Steelhenge Consulting, a provider of business continuity and organisational resilience planning, has urged UK businesses to review their business continuity programmes now in preparation for the London 2012 Olympics, reports Earth Times.

Steelhenge is already actively involved with a number of organisations across the UK in preparation for the impact of the event, including supporting the development of energy resilience for the 2012 Olympics.

"We are concerned that businesses and organisations across the UK should be considering the impact of the Olympics on their business continuity now, when they still have time to improve their operational resilience," says Isobel Nicholas, director of communications for Steelhenge.

According to a request for proposal issued earlier this month, the City of Memphis, Tennessee is looking to extend an outsourcing contract for its IT infrastructure and application maintenance and support services, says Civ Source.

The deal could be worth up to $35 million over five years, with two one-year options.

The five-year base contract could be worth as much as $7 million per year for vendors who are able to satisfy a base set of services including data centre operations, help desk support, application development, telecommunications, information security and monitoring tools.

There is no room for complacency in the face of terror and piracy threats to Singapore businesses, said senior minister and coordinating minister for national security, professor S Jayakumar, states Asia One.

He explained that with the twin threats of terrorism and piracy, both the private and public sectors need to invest in security, with particular attention to info-communications and the supply chain.

Otherwise, Singapore's reputation as one of the world's easiest and most secure economies to do business in will be at risk, he added. Jayakumar was speaking at the National Security Dialogue, this week, which was attended by 700 business leaders.