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This disaster recovery device from Amacom could be looked upon as nothing more that a USB hard drive with some back-up software thrown in for good measure. But this product is more than the sum of its parts.

Hordes of scammers are exploiting the Asian tsunami to prise money from email recipients, it has emerged. 419 scams and phishing attacks are being crafted to extort money from those wishing to help victims of last week’s disaster. A man has been charge over an alleged attempt to hack into the website co-ordinating relief for victims of the recent tsunami disaster. More companies have implemented enterprise-wide business continuity and disaster recovery plans over the past five years, but those plans continue to have weaknesses, according to a survey by Deloitte & Touche LLP and CPM Global Assurance. Creating a systems and site availability plan to protect critical business processes and systems. “When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.” E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic The Madrid train bombs have raised fears that it is only a matter of when – rather than if – there will be a serious terrorist incident elsewhere. For my own part, I honestly believe that one will happen within two years – and that it will have a massive impact on how business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) is viewed in this country. In the wake of September 11 companies have been scrambling to review and update their disaster recovery and business continuity plans. What is most likely to bring your systems down? A minor problem might be as bad as a natural disaster argues Illena Armstrong

This solution also delivers backup and restore and, unlike the previous solution, is designed with the smaller workgroup environment in mind. With the initial installation setting up a server, it also provides a centralized repository. In addition Lockstep advise an optional mirror backup off-site to ensure a complete recovery is possible of all corporate data.

For a business continuity plan to be truly effective at the time of interruption or disaster, everyone within the company needs to pull together to make the plan work and turn interruption into continuation.

ABSPlus is probably better know in the backup and recovery market and so it will be little surprise that what we are now looking at is exactly that - and more. It is an ideal storage unit to regularly back up all laptop data. With the software supplied the device becomes the complete backup and restore, disaster recovery solution.

Texas police have adopted a network monitoring and disaster recovery solution. More than half of UK businesses have no strategy for disaster recovery. Jason Buffington looks at likely trends in disaster recovery as companies realize that availability is essential Philip Carter argues that disaster recovery and business continuity should not be too tightly regulated Allied Bakeries, manufacturer of breads such as Kingsmill and Sunblest, has purchased a data replication product that supports disaster recovery and business continuity. Terrorism gave an impetus to DR planning, says Ron Condon, but other factors have kept its importance alive Increasingly, companies are implementing business continuity plans to ensure the constant availability and support of the company infrastructure and business processes. A third of all Irish businesses have admitted that they have no disaster recovery measures in place to protect themselves from serious network outages, a recent survey carried out by IDC has revealed.